Suw Charman-Anderson

Current

Co-Founder at Fruitful
Social Software/Web 2.0 Consultant and Speaker at Y Ffynhonnell Ltd
Technology writer at Y Ffynhonnell Ltd

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Past

Board Member at Open Rights Group
Executive Director at Open Rights Group
Owner at Clwb Malu Cachu

Founder, Get Fluent at Y Ffynhonnell Ltd
Freelance web project manager at -
E-Learning Editor at Hutchison 3G
Intranet Editor at Hutchison 3G
Project Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Freelance Music Journalist & Photographer at Melody Maker and others

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Education

University of Wales, Cardiff

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336 connections

Industry

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Ada Lovelace Day

Suw Charman-Anderson’s Summary

Suw Charman-Anderson is a geek with a passion for social media. She started her first blog, Chocolate and Vodka, in June 2002, covering a miscellany of topics from writing to films to tennis. Her interest in blogging lead her to start Strange Attractor, a second blog covering social media topics, which she now writes with her husband, journalist Kevin Anderson.

Suw has been a successful social media consultant since May 2004, and now work with businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies across a range of sectors.

A committed digital rights activist, Suw started the Open Rights Group with the help of luminaries such as Cory Doctorow, Danny O'Brien and Louise Ferguson. ORG has now got over 1,000 supporters and has successfully campaigned on a wide range of issues.

Suw's newest project is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Scheduled for 24th March 2009, it will unite over 1000 people, each singing the praises of a woman in technology that they admire.

Suw Charman-Anderson’s Specialties:

social software, Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, instant messenger, chat, knowledge management, project management, development blogs, time shifted communications, marketing blogs, pr blogs, business blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, writing, presenting, speaking, strategy, implementation, adoption, internal business communications, collaboration, corporate communication, social tools, social media

Suw Charman-Anderson’s Experience

Co-Founder

Fruitful

(Internet industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Lloyd Davis, Leisa Reichelt and I decided to found Fruitful to provide small, high-quality seminars on a variety of Web 2.0 and related issues. We cover topics such as fostering the adoption of social tools in business, and understanding and addressing the problem of email overload.
Social Software/Web 2.0 Consultant and Speaker

Y Ffynhonnell Ltd

(Internet industry)

May 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

I help businesses implement social software and Web 2.0 tools internally for communication and collaboration, and externally for nurturing customer relations.

I cover the use blogs, wikis, IM, chat, RSS, aggregators, tagging, social networking, social bookmarking and Web 2.0 tools.

Services include:

Writing high level social media strategies
Strategy implementation
Coaching, mentoring and training
Community building
Social functionality design
Developing blogging and commenting policies

I have worked in a variety of sectors, including technology, travel, media, financial, management consulting, NGO and public relations sectors.

Past clients include: Pfizer, NESTA, Dresdner Kleinwort, BBC, McKinsey, Oracle, Jackie Cooper PR, Holiday Extras, Edelman.

I also speak regularly at events and lectures, e.g. Future of Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0 Forum Cologne, Freedom 2 Connect, EBU Radio News, London School of Economics, RSA/Economist.
Technology writer

Y Ffynhonnell Ltd

(Writing and Editing industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

I have written for The Guardian, CIO Magazine, .Net, Press Gazette and Linux User & Developer, amongst others. Examples of my work are available on suw.org.uk.
Board Member

Open Rights Group

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 5 months)

After handing over the Executive Director role to a full-time employee, I transferred to the Board, and to focus on long-term strategy, policy and communications.
Executive Director

Open Rights Group

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 7 months)

The Open Rights Group, a digital rights advocacy group focused on British and European issues. As one of the Founders, I was responsible for bootstrapping the organisation, recruiting supporters and creating an infrastructure robust enough to withstand the explosive growth ORG saw during 2006.

During my time at ORG, I was responsible for:

- campaigning against the European Data Retention Directive
- submitting evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group's Public Inquiry into Digital Rights Management
- submitting evidence to the Gowers Review in Intellectual Property
- organising the Release The Music campaign against the extension of the term copyright protection given to sound records, (in the face of much music industry was lobbying)

I have done numerous press, radio and TV interviews, including Sky News, and have also spoken at events including Trinity College Dublin's legal workshops, Oxford Conference in Education, SHiFT, Xtech, Radiator, and RESfest.
Owner

Clwb Malu Cachu

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

April 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 9 months)

Although Clwb Malu Cachu is still alive and well, I am not running it as a commercial venture, so I have closed this position.

Clwb Malu Cachu, (www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk), was launched in Jan 01 to provide free support for Welsh learners. The site has over 200 pages including grammar cheat sheets, short stories, book reviews, features and interviews.
· writing content in both English and Welsh
· website design and management
· organisation and creation of marketing strategy and materials
Founder, Get Fluent

Y Ffynhonnell Ltd

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

February 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 4 months)

I started Y Ffynhonnell Ltd in 2002 in order to launch an internet start up, Get Fluent.

Get Fluent was launched in Aug 02 to provide e-learning material, in the form of 10 page worksheets, to adults studying Welsh.
· organisation and creation of marketing strategy and materials
· writing Welsh worksheet, plus briefs for a proposed French service
· liaison with translators, writers, designers, PR agencies and press/journalists
· website design and content management/creation
Freelance web project manager

-

(Online Media industry)

November 1998 — January 2004 (5 years 3 months)

Worked closely with clients to develop their brief, advise on content plan, edit and write content, design and build websites.
E-Learning Editor

Hutchison 3G

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

January 2002 — March 2002 (3 months)

Part of a small e-learning team providing internal educational material.
· liaison with teams across the company and an independent content producer
· wrote course to teach Documentum Web Publisher to intranet users
Intranet Editor

Hutchison 3G

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

November 2001 — January 2002 (3 months)

With the Interactive Communications team at Hutchison 3G, responsible for the intranet during a crucial changeover period from a centrally-administered HTML-based site to a self-serve intranet utilising Documentum Web Publisher.
· editing and writing intranet content
· assisting in troubleshooting implementation of Documentum
Project Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Online Media industry)

July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)

Part of a 30 strong studio, covering print, CD-ROM and new media. Worked on several projects including Enlighten, an internal e-business awareness site.
· managing the editorial and research team
· writing and editing site content; liaison with freelance journalists
· writing content, functional and technical specifications
· internal advertising campaign: providing copy for ads, treatments for video producers and assisting in design of visual material
· working with technical team on design of collaborative authorship software
Freelance Music Journalist & Photographer

Melody Maker and others

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

July 1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Examples of my writing can be seen on suw.org.uk

Melody Maker
Features and interviews, including:
Diary of an LP - interview with Shed 7, Jun 98
View from the Crew - Pulp at Finsbury Park, crew interview, Aug 98
View from the Crew - Blur crew interview, Jan 98
A Week in the Life of Infectious Records - interviews with A&R dept, Oct 98

Total Production
Features and interviews, including:
Home Sweet Home - Stereophonics at Cardiff Castle, crew interview, Jun 98
Future Style Defined - Cosmopolitan Catwalk Show, crew interview, Jun 98
Pure Performance - Les Misérables in concert, crew interview, Sep 98
Return of the Persuader - John Barry concert, crew interview, Jun 98

Pro Sound News
News, 98/99

BBC Wales Online
Just Enough Welsh to Impress, introduction to the Welsh language, Sep 01