John Saddington

Current

Product Director of Social Networking at Beliefnet - A News Corp Company
Founder & Community Director at Datecraft.com

Past

Innovation Technology & Strategist / Enterprise Content Producer at Dell, Inc.
Visioncaster & Strategist at Paradigming Triangle, LLC / Second Adoption Media, LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
Creative Director at Life Multimedia, LLC

Web Developer - Database, Content, Lead Designer at Vistakon, Johnson & Johnson
Database Developer at Visionweb

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Education

Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas Theological Seminary
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Recommended

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Connections

196 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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John Saddington’s Summary

Recognized Thought-Leader and Technologist in Social Media, Community Strategy, Viral Marketing, User-Centric Design, and Convergent Web 2.0++ Initiatives, with proven Leadership roles supporting top Executive Management.

Loves to be involved with exciting and challenging business-oriented positions where I can apply a unique combination of strong technical expertise, communication, and “visioneering” with my passion for digital online communities and relationship-building to transform a company mission into an exciting business, marketing, and social media strategy.

John Saddington’s Specialties:

Hands-on experience with nearly every type of Social Media Technology, Web 2.0 Strategy, and Implementation Engagements, ranging from blogs, podcasts, audio and video, micro-blogging, forums, message boards, social communities, RSS, wikis, aggregators, widgets, Ajax, css, atom, web standards, openAPIs, syndication, online auctions, IM, semantic web, seo, xml, xhtml, mobility, geo-social and spatial networking, trust, transparency, and sharing.

John Saddington’s Experience

Product Director of Social Networking

Beliefnet - A News Corp Company

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

April 2008 — Present (4 months)

Orchestrates the design, development, implementation, strategic and executional strategy of Beliefnet's Social Media engagement and platform.

Visionary for a world-class product.
Founder & Community Director

Datecraft.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

November 2007 — Present (9 months)

To provide a simple and intuitive website which assists and facilitates the building of relationships between World of Warcraft enthusiasts.
Innovation Technology & Strategist / Enterprise Content Producer

Dell, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; dell; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Visioncaster & Strategist
Paradigming Triangle, LLC / Second Adoption Media, LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Dabbling in all types of Social Technology and Web Development. A Creative time bandit to keep abreast of the latest technology, trends, and execution.
Creative Director

Life Multimedia, LLC

(Partnership; Internet industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years)
Web Developer - Database, Content, Lead Designer

Vistakon, Johnson & Johnson

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; jnj; Medical Devices industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years)
Database Developer

Visionweb

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)

John Saddington’s Education

Dallas Theological Seminary

Th.M, Christian Education, 2005 — 2012 (expected)
Dallas Theological Seminary

2007 — 2011 (expected)
Georgia Institute of Technology

Science & Technology, Creative Web Development and Postmodern Philosophy, 2001 — 2005

Additional Information

John Saddington’s Websites:

John Saddington’s Interests:

Social Equity, Community Psychology, Web 2.0++, Blogs, Social Media, Classic and Progressive Web Development, Creative Design, UI Dev, Content Management Systems, anything technology related at the bleeding edge!