Chris Brogan – Status

About Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan uses social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. He has merged his experience in technology (enterprise IT and wireless telephony) with his passion for social media, such that he’s showing organizations how to use these tools inside the firewall, as well as to build authentic conversations between coworkers, customers, and even competitors.

Chris speaks at several conferences and for private organizations, bridging business-minded people with technology concepts and helping tech-centric types understand the business implications of their efforts. For more on his speaking, check out his speaker’s page.

Chris blogs, write articles, and make media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com]. Skilled in new media creation (blogging, podcasting, videoblogging) as well as social media community building (through sites like Facebook, Ning, Twitter, and others), his strength is in connecting passionate people together for business, collaboration, and networking.

Brogan is cofounder of the PodCamp unconference series (with Christopher S. Penn), exploring the use of new media community tools to extend relationships and build value. There have been over 30 PodCamps all over the world, including Sweden, South Africa, and Australia.

Chris’s current role is provinding information and services to business customers around their Technology and Social Media needs. His focus is on technologies like virtualization, unified communications, social media strategies, content management, data warehouse technologies, and more. He shows businesses how to reduce operating expenses, improve workflow, simplify operational complexity, and more.

Prior to these roles in the media and events space, Chris had over 16 years of telecommunications experience in wireless and landline technologies, including enterprise software and hardware experience, project management expertise, and applications/solutions engineering experience, as well.

His main blog is at [chrisbrogan.com].