Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: James Whatley | Filed under: Member | Tags: advice, community, freehugger, mobile, mobile web, problemsolver, socialmedia, strategy, whatleydude | No Comments »
James Whatley is Director of Engagement Strategy for 1000heads. Having spent the summer of 2009 representing Lucozade as their Social Media Reporter throughout the Lucozade Energy Challenges, he currently spends his days advising the biggest brands on how to maximise the use of Word Of Mouth to engage with consumers in brand new ways. Founder of the Mobile Geeks of London, Co-founder of The Really Mobile Project and key advisor to mobile web twitter service Dabr, James lives and breathes mobile in every way, shape and form.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2008 | Author: Josh Russell | Filed under: Member | Tags: infrastructure, internet, logic, mobile, networking, product, socialmedia, strategy, structurehacking, sustainability, ux, web, webapp, wimax, zeitgeist | No Comments »
Josh Russell has a diverse background in creating businesses, and doing strategy for small startups and large organisations on a range of projects. Most notably for Comic Relief on the Live 8 and Make Poverty History campaigns, where scale, pressure and innovation are really tested, and at Microsoft as a user experience evangelist taking technologies to new audiences.
In 2003 he created one of the first networks of free wifi hotspots, to support the emerging community of nomadic technologists. This evolved into Metranet, an independent and robust next generation wireless infrastructure company, currently shaking up the telco industry with Wimax, or 4G mobile networks.
His passion is in making things work, from the ground up, with strong and sustainable business models, and clear understanding of industry trends and opportunities.
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