Posts Tagged ‘Social Software’

Marc Perramond, Director of Product Management, InsideView

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Marc Perramond


Marc is the Director of Product Management for InsideView, a pioneer in on-demand business search and intelligence. He is responsible for InsideView’s product strategy, evangelism, and execution.

Marc has been in technology for 10+ years with experience in product strategy, product management, product marketing, consulting, and sales engineering.  Prior to joining InsideView, he served as Director of Product Management at Convergys, Senior Solution Architect at DigitalThink, and Project Manager at Lifescape, LLC.

William Becker - Social Network Analysis Consultant, Adjunct Professor at New York University

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Bill Becker 

Bill  has three decades  of  consulting in a range of  industries, from medium sized companies to large Fortune 500 corporations.  He is a hands-on practitioner who has helped organizations through major strategic, operational, and cultural change efforts, and has designed and implemented workshops, seminars and conferences for all levels of management.

  He has served as an internal Director of OD for HSBC, the Investment Sector of AXA Financial, Estee Lauder Manufacturing, New York Power Authority Nuclear Plant, and Maritz Travel & Training, and the American Management Association International.

   Bill co-founded Axelrod•Becker Consulting (ABC) after his association with The American Management Association International, where he was Director of Organizational Development for their domestic and international clients.  ABC focuses on helping organizations optimize their external and internal relationships in an integrated way that leads to new streams of revenue, improved performance, and sustainable growth.  He is also the CEO of Strategic Business Resources, an affiliate of ABC that offers a portfolio of organization consulting.

His most recent book, How To OD…And Live to Tell About It, has received outstanding reviews, and is available at all Barnes and Noble stores and at Amazon.Com.  Articles written by Bill have also appeared in the United Kingdom’s Manchester School of Business Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, the American Management Associations’ M-World Resource Center and the National Organization Development publications OD Practitioner and Practicing. In addition, Bill is invited to present at national conferences for human resource, training, and organization development.

 Bill has a master’s degree from UCLA, with extensive training at National Training Laboratories (NTL) in their core and advanced Organizational Development Programs.  He is a former member of the National Association of Securities Dealers a founding member of SearchNet, and a former Board member of the Organization Development Network of Greater New York. Bill is a former adjunct Professor at the New School in New York City, where he taught Organization Development and Human Resources Management in their Human Resource Masters Degree Program, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at New York University. Contact: wbecker@axelrodbecker.com.

Kellie Partker - Online Community Manager, PCWorld.com and Macworld.com

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Kellie Parker

As the Online Community Manager for PCWorld.com and Macworld.com, Kellie Parker is responsible for setting the community-building strategies, managing the relationships with community software vendors, and interacting with the community members on both sites. She also manages all member created content on both sites, including blogs and blog comments, product reviews, and wiki knowledge base. She is responsible for all interactive features of both sites, including polls and user contests. She manages the PC World “Letters to the Editor” inbox and edits the “PCW Forum” section of PC World magazine each month. In addition, she writes a community-focused column on PC World, writes an IDG-internal blog focused on community and social networking, and contributes to the Today @ PC World blog on social networking and user generated content news. 

Prior to joining PC World & Macworld, Kellie was a Senior Producer & Online Community Manager with LiveWorld, Inc for 7 years. At LiveWorld, she built and managed some of the web’s largest branded communities, including HBO, A&E, History Channel, QVC and Discovery Channel.

Kellie holds an MBA in Marketing (with Graduate Honors) from Regis University.

Jenny Ambrozek - Founder, SageNet LLC

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Ambrozek

Jenny Ambrozek is Founder of SageNet LLC, a consulting practice helping

businesses create value by understanding and operating their organizations as networks, and putting collaborative tools to work to connect intelligence in, across and beyond their walls.

Her work in online interaction began in the mid 1980s with Edutel, an Australian Caption Center supported educational content service delivered on Prestel standard Videotex. Jenny authored The Edutel Book: A Guide to Videotex in Education. Coming to the United States in the 1980’s, Jenny joined PRODIGY, the pioneering online service where she served as Director, Community Development.

In eight years at PRODIGY, she brought together a wide range of interactive components in content areas ranging from entertainment to technology to parenting, and learned firsthand about the importance of day-to-day operating practices to minimize the cost of supporting customer engagement.

Since 1996 Jenny has helped clients in publishing, learning, and commerce implement successful online network and collaboration efforts. With Joe Cothrel she conducted the //Online Communities in Business 2004// study and contributed to the communities of practice organizational network survey instrument for the //Network Roundtable//, University of Virginia. Her most recent article co-authored with Victoria Axelrod and Kiki Mulliner is “Learning through participation and connecting intelligence: experimenting with a wiki to co-create an article”. Jenny is a co-founder and author of the //21st Century Organization// blog and provides her participatory media expertise to the University of Warwick //Knowledge Innovation Network//.