People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Jan 17, 2008

Categories: On the movePosted on January 17th, 2008

I’m starting this series of posts tagged On The Move (click to see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. We should congratulate the following folks:

Robert Scoble (former colleague) leaves Podtech Network to join Fast Company to start up the video network. Robert is an innovator, fantastic blogger, and media personality in one. This is a good fit for him, he’s moving to a mainstream role, gets to focus on telling stories and sharing information (rather than going to a tool company). He’ll have a few challenges of course, I expect him to reinvent his videos, while still delivering his fun, goofy, personality that we all love. Congrats to Robert, a pioneer in the industry.

Rocky Barbanica (also former colleague at PodTech) will be joining Fast Company to lead the video production for the ScobleShow and whatever comes next. Rocky is a video editor and producer, and helped me publish many of my videos. Since they’re a team, we look forward to seeing how he’ll step up the production value of Robert’s work, congrats to him

Mike McGrath (who’s been leading the Silicon Valley Social Media Club) announces from his blog that he’s joining social media consulting shop The Conversation Group (see the partners)

John Lilly rises to a new position from COO to CEO at Mozilla Corporation. I met John at the recent brownbag I was invited to at Mozilla HQ, he was extremely engaged, knowledgeable and friendly. Best of luck to him

Matt Dickman of TechnoMarketer blog fame has now become Director, Digital Marketing at Fleishman-Hillard in Cleveland, Ohio. If you enjoy my blog, you’ll also enjoy his, so I recommend you subscribe. Many PR firms are hiring social media practitioners and strategists, expect this trend to continue

Chris Horne joins as senior product manager for MediaTrust’s relevance and social media technologies, press release here, submitted from the CEO of MediaTrust himself

How to Connect with others:

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If you know folks that are moving up in the social media industry, leave a comment below, or if you’re feeling shy (it’s cool to self-nominate) send me an email.

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Great to see that people in the small circle of social media are now being taken seriously!

Rex
Publisher Relations, Lookery
Director of Social Media Content, Lending Club

Posted by Rex Dixon on January 17th, 2008 at 6:05 am

Jeremiah, this is excellent community goodness! Thank you for all you do in industry.

Dawn
http://linkedin.com/in/dmular
http://linkedinhfcngroup.blogspot.com/2007/10/social-networks-directory-new.html

Posted by Dawn Mular on January 17th, 2008 at 6:06 am

Rex, yes these roles are moving into corporate, they’ve a seat at the table to make decisions, and impact marketing, products, and support.

Dawn, thanks, it’s a great industry to serve, it’s a very ‘giving’ industry.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 17th, 2008 at 6:22 am

Hi Jeremiah,

Just a couple days ago I hired Brian Wallace to cover the social side of Google at Google Tutor, details here:

http://www.googletutor.com/2008/01/14/brian-wallace-now-covering-the-social-side-of-google-at-google-tutor/

Thanks,

-GT

Posted by Google Tutor on January 17th, 2008 at 6:31 am

Jeremiah,

Thanks for your insight. It’s great to be a part of such an exciting and emerging field.My company takes SMM very seriously and doesn’t plan a campaign without including and consulting with my SMM team.

Adam
Social Media Coordinator
Bodog Music

Posted by Adam Gershenbaum on January 17th, 2008 at 8:23 am

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Posted by The Convergence of "Traditional" and "Digital" Communication « Blogging Me Blogging You on January 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am

It’s amazing how quickly the importance of the social web has grown. Just being a few years out of college, I’ve seen the buzz grow into solid work. I will definitely be checking out the job boards since I’m looking.

Thanks Jeremiah!

Posted by Andre on January 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Thanks Jeremiah - I have been trying to get this setup properly and have a bit to go with http://www.socialmediajobs.com/ but it is there now and I expect it to be officially launching now at the end of the month…

Posted by Chris Heuer on January 17th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

It’s a pity there’s nothing similar for the UK now I’m looking for a job here

Posted by Rachel Clarke on January 18th, 2008 at 4:21 am

Jeremiah, on the self-promotion side of the equation…I just moved this past week from 17 years of IT support in the legal industry to an entry-level customer support position with web development and e-marketing company Elliance, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. This move is in part due to familial needs and in part due to my past work in both customer support and podcasting/social media. I intend to continue podcasting the Minute Tech podcast, but also seek to expand into using Seesmic and life-casting, as well as continue vlogging via my logos.blip.tv site.

Posted by Alex Landefeld on January 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am

Self-promotion, I find it hard to balance the self promotion side of social media, but I’m getting accustomed to self-promotion, without being a jerk. Hopefully.

I just was promoted from Account Coordinator & BlogMaster to Social Media Strategist at Terpin Communications.