Short Attention Span Theater: The Birth of Microblogging & Micromedia

I have spent the first 10 years focused on solving problems through products. I have dedicated my career towards leveraging my broad experience and problem-solving skills to dissect industries, define a problem space and innovate a product solution. So far, I have introduced solutions for the content management, e-mail, market research verticals.

Since 2003, I have solely focused my attentions to the social dimension of product creation. I am widely recognized as a thought leader in the field, a contributor to the founding concepts of the expanding social web, and have utilized my insights to develop solutions for the online dating, identity, conference and social media industries.

Since 2006, I have worked, as a principal at Blue Whale Labs to bring business ideas and product concepts to life for companies of all sizes, from the Fortune 500 to the smallest startup.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in Sociology. After completing my studies, I honed my skills as a graphic and web designer before launching a career as a developer and technologist supporting the emerging Internet industry.

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Jeremiah Owyang is a well known web strategy and media expert and is sought out by both Fortune 1000 and startup companies. He is currently Senior Analyst at Forrester Research focused on Social Computing. In this role he covers social networks, and broke news about Facebook’s recent Social Ads product. He also writes a daily blog Web Strategy by Jeremiah and speaks at Technology, PR, and Marketing conferences about web and media strategy.

Before Forrester, Jeremiah’s was responsible for the corporate evangelism at PodTech.net, and previously was leading the strategy and development of corporate web programs at Hitachi Data Systems, Exodus Communications, Cable and Wireless, and World Savings (now Wachovia). Jeremiah Owyang holds a Bachelors in in Marketing from San Francisco State University.

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Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the original and most prominent thought leaders in social media. A digital analyst and visionary, Solis has influenced the effects of new media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and traditional media. He is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media agency in Silicon Valley, and has led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 startups. Brian’s blog is ranked among the world’s business and marketing elite. For more information, visit briansolis.com.

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The /Messengers is not a band, although it sounds like one. It’s just is the name I dreamed up for my consulting business back in 2007.

I am best known these days for my writing (and the thinking behind it, I hope) at /Message, hence the /Messengers. I am obsessed with social tools, and their impact on business, media, and society. I coined the term “social tools” in 1999, the same year I started blogging, and I haven’t looked back since.

My work is principally oriented toward the theory and practice of social web application design and development, as well as related product strategy (like the activities formerly known as marketing).

I am often asked to bring in other consultants or organizations, which I do gladly and eagerly. So, I consider myself the front man of a constantly shifting collaborative network, a band of doers and thinkers, designers and developers. Sometimes it’s a solo act, sometimes a duo, and when needed a combo. I am having a lot of fun.

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