Fabrice Epelboin

Fabrice Epelboin

Editor & publisher at ReadWriteWeb France

Paris Area, France

Current
  • Editor and publisher for France at ReadWriteWeb
  • Founder at Bixmix project
Past
  • Partner at 22mars
  • cofounder at Owni.fr
  • Consultant at Aladia
  • Founder at Agorami.net
  • Founder at Yades
  • eMarketing at Egg
  • Holiday at Tech nuclear winter
  • VP Strategy at Prizzo
  • Advisor to the CEO & Creative Director at Owendo/CStech
  • Web planner & Creative Director at BaBeL
  • Publishing Director at Editions Philippine
  • Multimedia producer at Carré Multimedia
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Fabrice Epelboin’s Summary

Editor & publisher for ReadWriteWeb in France, entrepreneur, I also work as an Internet Strategy Consultant and social media expert. I have various startup project in the pipeline, mainly concerning social media.

Fabrice Epelboin’s Specialties:

new media, eBranding, social software, Web 2.0, semantic web, user-centric design, creative marketing, innovative business models, GUI, information architecture, eGovernement, eDemocracy, Creative Comment...


Fabrice Epelboin’s Experience

  • Editor and publisher for France

    ReadWriteWeb

    (Internet industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    Editor and publisher for ReadWriteWeb France

  • Founder

    Bixmix project

    (Internet industry)

    January 2008Present (1 year 11 months)

    Bixmix is a startup platform an incubator currently operating in stealth mode.

  • Partner

    22mars

    (Internet industry)

    January 2009August 2009 (8 months)

    22mars is a social media editor. Its clients include institutions, media and politics.

  • cofounder

    Owni.fr

    (Media Production industry)

    March 2009July 2009 (5 months)

    cofounder with crazy bunch of people of owni.fr, an experimental socialmedia playground, gathering journalists, tech experts and evangelist, professors, politics, writers, artists, and lots of content.
    Built on open source, open standards, creative commons licences... You see the spirit ;-)

  • Consultant

    Aladia

    (Internet industry)

    January 2007January 2009 (2 years 1 month)

    Web strategy and eBranding consultant for the media industry and the traditional industry.
    Clients include Emap, Mandadori Group, Weka, Michelin, Societe Generale, and various french startups.
    Missions included joint venture setup, internet strategy, deal facilitator, web 2.0 strategic thinking, prospective strategy.

  • Founder

    Agorami.net

    (Internet industry)

    April 2004December 2006 (2 years 9 months)

    Agorami provides advanced social software technologies to media, non profit organisations, portals and to the media industry.

  • Founder

    Yades

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    January 2003January 2006 (3 years 1 month)

    Yades is a thinktank and incubator for cutting edge web projects like Agorami in 2004.

    We are actively looking for foreing web 2.0 concept to adapt to the french market and emerging trends and opportunities in web 2.0/3.0.

    Yades also initiates or participates in artistic project in the contemporary art field and helps associations like Emmaus International with their internet strategy.

  • eMarketing

    Egg

    (Public Company; EGG; Banking industry)

    March 2001December 2002 (1 year 10 months)

    eMarketing and eBranding at Egg France ;-))) I worked on a whole bunch of different stuff, ranging from ad desing to branding and credit card desing...

  • Holiday

    Tech nuclear winter

    (Think Tanks industry)

    June 2000March 2001 (10 months)

    Took extensive holidays after nearly 9 years without decent real vacations. Lots of reading, thinking, and some traveling, all during the post-bubble tech nuclear winter.

  • VP Strategy

    Prizzo

    (Internet industry)

    October 1999June 2000 (9 months)

    co founder and VP Strategy of Prizzo, a heavily funded priceline mee-too.
    In charge of the design team management, GUI, customer experience, website production & design.

  • Advisor to the CEO & Creative Director

    Owendo/CStech

    (Internet industry)

    June 1999June 2000 (1 year 1 month)

    Hold a key position during Owendo's initial public offering, taking an active part in the various roadshows and financial keynotes who took place in 1999-2000 mostly in creating PR material.
    The company's IPO was a huge success : most oversold stock during the initial public offering and highest growth rate of its stock on french "second marché" marketplace.

  • Web planner & Creative Director

    BaBeL

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

    December 1995June 1999 (3 years 7 months)

    Played a key role in expanding the company from 1 employee to one of France's largest web agencies. Designed several major online banking and trading system, many eCommerce website (from Sierra/Cendant to Casino e-retailer). Overall, more than 100 large scale websites have been produced in my department at BaBeL.

  • Publishing Director

    Editions Philippine

    (Publishing industry)

    January 1995January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

    Worked for major french publishers such as Larousse, Plon, Hachette, and for uk's Dorling Kindersley. Actively participated in setting up new workflows and methodologies to leverage the Desktop Publishing tools revolution.

  • Multimedia producer

    Carré Multimedia

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

    January 1992December 1994 (3 years )

    Produced one of France's fisrt cultural CDrom, awarded a Milia d'Or in Cannes in 1994. Also head publisher for many cultural books, mostly for the RMN (French national museums)


Additional Information

Fabrice Epelboin’s Websites:

Fabrice Epelboin’s Interests:

social software, social networking technologies, web 2.0, semantic web, web 3.0, metaweb, user-centric design, branding & identity, creative marketing, innovative business models, GUI, information architecture, new business developpement, startups, creative thinking...

Fabrice Epelboin’s Groups:

  •    eOffice
  •    FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
  •    P2P Insiders
  •    NetSquared
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    OpenCoffee Paris
  •    Web 2.0
  •    Wikipedia Users Group
  •    Google Group
  •    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Economist Group
  •    O'Reilly Media
  •    Semantic Web
  •    Music-innovations
  •    Fans of Mashable
  •    New Media, Social Media, and Social Networking Participants
  •    InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Social Media Today
  •    Social Media Marketing
  •    Marketing 2.0 Community
  •    Tweeple
  •    Music Industry Forum
  •    Social Media Marketing Group
  •    brandhackers
  •    BarCamps Berlin
  •    BarCamp France
  •    Social Media Club
  •    Digital Publishing Network
  •    Web 2.0 Expo Europe
  •    Future Social Media
  •    Personal Branding 2.0
  •    Music Industry Bloggers

Fabrice Epelboin’s Honors:

Best Tech Blog in Challenges Magazine 2008, Exceptional Blog selection in Stratégies Magazine 2008, Communication Art 1998 for jmphilippe.net, Clic d'Or 1999, Grand prix du jury for Keo.org
Ars Electronica 99 for Keo.org, Milia d'Or 1994.


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