George Nemeth

Current

Founder, Community Catalyst at Cleveland Social Media Club
Social Media Marketing Strategist at Optiem
Chief Blogging Officer at Brewed Fresh Daily

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Past

CCIO at CoolCleveland.com
Regional Chairman at Ryze
Founding Partner at SmartMeetingDesign

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Education

John Carroll University

Recommended

13 people have recommended George

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

George Nemeth’s Summary

As a veteran blogger (BrewedFreshDaily.com launched in 2002) George loves to talk about social media (Twitter, Facebook, you name it) to area groups such as The Web Association, AAF Student Days, Leadership Akron, NEO DMA, PRSA, COSE/NEOSA, as well as Blog World Expo.

George's work focuses on the uses of technology as a means of managing knowledge and collaboration in organizations. Currently, Nemeth is working at Optiem in the Digital Content and Media Department as a social media marketing specialist with an emphasis on organic search. George has to his credits the creation and promotion of online and offline communities, including the Cleveland Social Media Club, Brewed Fresh Daily, and Meet.The.Bloggers*. He is formerly the CIO of CoolCleveland.com.

He's recently publish a book with co-author Jack Ricchiuto on building community by intentionally creating new conversation titled "Instructions from the Cook".

George serves as a president of the board of directors at ArtsCollinwood, an organization who's goaI is to support a stimulating arts environment and to encourage continuing education in the arts by offering a wide variety of cultural activities for residents of all ages.

With a BA from John Carroll University in Business Administration,George has worked in information management systems with companies including Swagelok and NCS DataCom, and is fluent in XML, RSS, scripting languages, and a variety of databases.

He's also been an instructor at several area schools leading students in a self-directed exploration of graphic communication, focusing on the use of blogs, wikis, and other traditional forms of print and electronic media.

George Nemeth’s Specialties:

Blogging, microblogging, social networking sites, social media outreach, PR 2.0.

Website design, network architecture design, strategic technology sales and marketing, technology integration research, technical support & consulting.

George Nemeth’s Experience

Founder, Community Catalyst

Cleveland Social Media Club

(Online Media industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

George was one of five founders of the Cleveland chapter of the Social Media Club. As the Community Catalyst, he's helped facilitate meetings, is working to publish an ebook on social media, and generally beneficial to growing the community both quantity and quality wise.
Social Media Marketing Strategist

Optiem

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

SEO, SEM, Social Media Strategy.
Chief Blogging Officer

Brewed Fresh Daily

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

July 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)

Founder of BFD, a blog originating from Northeast Ohio, sharing opinion and information on a wide range of subjects.
CCIO

CoolCleveland.com

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

March 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 10 months)

As the CoolClevelandInformationOfficer for CoolCleveland.com, I provide most the technology support, but also facilitate communication between writers. When I'm not doing either of those things, I'm combing the internet [and local coffeeshops] for cool events to include. Did I mention I can be found helping Thomas setting up before the Art/Tech/Dance parties?
Regional Chairman

Ryze

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

November 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 3 months)

As regional chairman of the Cleveland Ryze Network - http://clevelandevent.ryze.com - I was in charge of bringing people together both online and at our monthly mixers. It's still a great way to build trust networks using SmartMeetingDesign principles - social networks and the technology support of meetings.
Founding Partner

SmartMeetingDesign

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

July 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 7 months)

Smart Meeting Design is a team of meeting designers and facilitators with dozens of years of experience across dozens of industries in web applications, social networks, organization development, architecture, and cultural anthropology. Our passion is to help organizations and communities build their capacity for sustainability - getting people on the same page, one meeting at a time.