Graeme Thickins (graeme@thickins.com)

Current

Founder/Editor-in-Chief at Tech~Surf~Blog™ (Sole Proprietorship)
Technology Writer & Analyst at www.GraemeThickins.com (Self-employed)
Founder/President at GT&A Strategic Marketing Inc. - including "NewMediaWise" practice launched 2007

Past

VP Marketing at Intradyn Inc.
Interim Director of Content at BestBuy.com

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Graeme Thickins (graeme@thickins.com)’s Summary

Graeme Thickins has seen many waves of technology in his career, and ridden a good many of them. He's also survived several business cycles over three decades. Somehow, he figures all this couldn't help but bestow upon him a certain amount of wisdom. (Then again, he could be wrong.)

Graeme is the founder of GT&A Strategic Marketing, Minneapolis, a marketing strategy, branding, content development, and startup advisory consultancy. Over 25+ years, he's helped more than 100 technology firms launch, grow, and prosper -- many of them from the initial concept stage. He's now helping clients take advantage of the new media environment, with both strategy and implementation. He calls his new consulting practice NewMediaWise.

Graeme has also served in key interim-executive roles, including for the launch of BestBuy.com as interim Director of Content, and as interim Director of Marketing for an IT services firm, since acquired. He has also served as a VP of marketing for a startup software firm.

In addition to his marketing consulting, content development, and startup advisory businesses, Graeme has reported for years on technology conferences via such sites as Conferenza.com, and of course his own blog. His reports have been published on several other media outlets, including those of eWeek, Network World, Computerworld, Gilder Publishing, and more. He has also written extensively for publication on various technology topics (www.graemethickins.com). Graeme has a large national network of leaders and influentials in the technology and investment communities. He currently contributes to an investor publication called The Angel Journal, and to leading blog Read/Write Web.

Graeme has an alternate base of operation in Southern California, where he writes and blogs "from the beach" whenever he can. Between surf sessions. (His widely read blog is at http://www.Tech-Surf-Blog.com. It has been ranked among the Top 100 Analyst Blogs by Technobabble 2.0.)

Graeme Thickins (graeme@thickins.com)’s Specialties:

New media, content, Web 2.0, social networking, UGC, SEO, SEM, communications, messaging, public relations, online advertising, blogging, social media, blogger relations, blogosphere monitoring, launch strategy, conference strategy/participation, marketing strategy, naming and branding, web site planning, IA, content development, content management, and...more, more, more.

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Graeme Thickins (graeme@thickins.com)’s Interests:

Technology, marketing, new media, surfing, photography, tech conferences, blogging, writing

Graeme Thickins (graeme@thickins.com)’s Groups:

The Surfrider Foundation, BarCamp Minnesota (Minnebar/Minnedemo), GetGoMN.org, various blogger communities, informal angel networks, The Social Media Club, Widget Summit