Techfluff Correspondents By on Thursday February 12th, 2009 1 comment
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Here are our lovely new correspondents:
Wales
Katie studied French and Italian at Pembroke College, Oxford which included stints living in Grenoble and Bologna. Since graduating in 2006, she worked for three years as Executive Assistant to Peter Jones one of the UK’s most famous entrepreneurs, and star of BBC2’s Dragons’ Den where she had hands on experience working with a number of start-ups. She spent the summer of 2009 in Ethiopia, working for the Give A Future Foundation in Addis Ababa. Katie’s currently a postgrad studying at Cardiff University for a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism where she runs the blog Entrepreneurial Cardiff. She is on the media board of Young Enterprise Cymru.
London
Cait Roberts
Cait decided to make the big move to from New York to London in Dec. of 2008 after receiving her Bachelor’s degree. From political campaigning, media sales, marketing management, & her current role as Rummble’s ‘Marketeer’ (where you may have spotted her presenting Rummble.tv every month!) – she has had a wide-range of life-molding experiences in the tech world, with the hopes of many more to come… Cait also just finished her MA at Westminster Business School. She is currently addicted to: carbonated water, social media, progressing the role of women in the UK mobile/tech scene, and vintage shopping.
http://twitter.com/cait_tierney
Josh Chandler
Josh Chandler is the editor of the Tomorrow’s Web Blog. He has had previous experience writing guest contributions for technology blogs including The Next Web and Vator.tv. He also produced a podcast back in 2008 called “Technology Gazette” in which he interviewed entrepreneurs and web celebrities on a regular basis. Josh left full-time education in December 2009, and is currently looking to setup his own business. He owns a successful Windows Media Player support site, which attracts 60,000 unique visitors per month.
http://twitter.com/Joshchandler
Elkin Gordon Atwell
Elkin Is a Network Media specialist from London, a graduate of the University of the Arts and Ravensbourne College.
He has been involved in New Media since 1988 in projects such as Cooltan, RGGDC, Wartime, Altern. Wartime, NodeLondon, Takaway festival and has exhibited in the UK and abroad. His Chinese name is爱江山 AI Jiang Shan, a name he was given in China on one of his many visits, he is interested in using technology as a tool in enabling communication
He currently lectures, focusing on media interaction within communities and journalism within the Interactive Network Media context. Other current projects include building robots for Gigapixel and 360×180 panoramas. He is a passionate about technology people and Kites. Check out his site atwww.superzoom.co.uk
Follow Elkin on Twitter at twitter.com/superzoomer
Marloes Veldhuizen & Isabelle O’Kane: Amsterdam Correspondents
After running her own AV production company for a year Marlooz realized managing wasn’t her thing and turned to her passion: filmmaking. Now she works as an all round filmmaker shooting corporate videos and reporting. She took a shot at presenting her own (Dutch) online videoshow The Videobuzz (http://tinyurl.com/videobuzz) and vlogged about her insomnia for a Dutch womens magazine (http://www.tinyurl.com/slapeloos). Marlooz just loves the internet and everything 2.0 and is a welcome guest at network- and techevents. In her spare time she likes to promote her favorite start-ups and Twitter, she tweets a lot…
Follow Marlooz on Twitter at twitter.com/marlooz
Isabelle is a brand strategist, blogger, social media junkie and future nerd with a huge interest in Web 2.0 and it’s implications for brand communications. She hails from Ireland originally but since commencing her career in London she’s now loving her Amsterdam life…
Follow Isabelle on Twitter at twitter.com/RunIzRun
Dan Taylor: Austria Correspondent
Dan Taylor is an New Yorker living in Vienna, Austria. He works as a new media specialist with fatfoogoo.com, a company specializing in creating virtual economy services in the online video game industry. When not at the daily grind, Dan’s an avid photographer and filmmaker, and is currently working on a documentary about Ex-pat musicians living and working in Vienna.
Follow Dan on Twitter at twitter.com/MountainDan
Jim Wolff: Scotland Correspondent
Entrepreneur and polymath, Jim can’t resist getting involved in weird and wonderful web ideas. Currently chief operations dogsbody at Ki Work, he combines web development, design, copywriting, community blethering and plain old graft to get things off the ground and into orbit. Other previous projects include creating innovative educational games and co-producing the award-winning environmental ARG Tomorrow Calling.
Follow Jim on Twitter at twitter.com/jimwolffman
Mark Jensen: Denmark Correspondent
My name is Mark Jensen, I am 23 years old and study Information Management at Copenhagen Business School. Besides being in school, I work at ZYB, listen to music, take pictures and update friends on what’s happening.
Follow Mark on Twitter at twitter.com/marks
Vivian Pein & Oliver Ueberholz: Germany Correspondents
Vivian, miss barcamp Germany, is a Hamburg based girl geek and networker who is passionate about organising social media events like barcamps / webmondays and microbloggingconferences.
Her background is colourful. She started studying computer science and ended up with a degree in economics. Vivian worked as a headhunter and freelanced in marketing, PR and design
She used to implement social networks into corporate cultures and currently is working as community manager for xing.com.
Follow Vivian on Twitter at twitter.com/zeniscalm
Oliver Ueberholz (”overwood”) is based anywhere where there’s an internet connection, but usually in Bonn (Germany). He has been an entrepreneur for nine years and still can’t get enough of it. Due to his passion for networking and travelling you will usually find him on an exotic tech-event.
Follow Oliver on Twitter at twitter.com/getoliverleon
Stefanos Kofopoulos: Greece Correspondent
After spending years working into IT and being part of the amazing Broadcom family i decided it was time to pursue my dream and go full time with blogging. Time was right and here i am, the first Greek blogger who tries to make his living out of blogging, video blogging and other social media activities.
Follow Stefanos on Twitter at twitter.com/Titanas
Raiha Buchanan: Stockholm Correspondent
My name is Raiha Buchanan, I currently work as an online marketer during the day, and during the nights and weekends I organize Tweetmeetup. This is a small venture between me and a few twitter friends; plus two blogs and a few websites. I have called Stockholm home since October 2007, prior to this I lived in Australia for 2.5 years and I am a New Zealander by birth. So it could be said that I have a passion for the online and travelling. The reasons why I love Stockholm, is the entrepreneurial environment. There are new tech start ups born every day. We have a large number of highly educated thinkers- working abroad and bringing new philosophies to the city; there are a lot of experimental successes and venture capitalists willing to invest in these. My favorite Swedish start ups of the moment are: Bambuser, Spotify, Twingly and Workey. I look forward to introducing these and other mover and shakers in Sweden to the techfluff.tv crowd.
Follow Raiha on Twitter at twitter.com/raiha
Tom Hayton: Stockholm Correspondent
Tom Hayton is a British international photographer based in Barcelona. Tom spent most of the last seven years in Asia- first in Japan and then in Malaysia, where he developed a passion for technology. Tom has worked with a broad range of media, including print, web, mobile and TV, and was the main organiser for Twestival Barcelona. Multilingual, he speaks German, Japanese, Malay/Indonesian, Swedish, French and he’s working on Spanish. In his spare time he practises judo, yoga, snowboarding and diving. Check out his work at www.tomhayton.com
Follow Tom on Twitter at twitter.com/tomhayton
