Social Media Week

Please join us in welcoming our fifth round of new contributors to our Global Editorial Team and be sure to check back soon to hear directly from them!

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Paul Dunay

Paul Dunay is an award-winning B2B marketing expert with more than 20 years’ success in generating demand and creating buzz for leading technology, consumer products, financial services and professional services organizations.

Paul is the Chief Marketing Officer of Networked Insights, a leader in social media analytics, and author of four “Dummies” books: Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley 2009), Social Media and the Contact Center for Dummies (Wiley Custom Publishing 2010), Facebook Advertising for Dummies (Wiley 2010) and Facebook Marketing for Dummies 2^nd Edition (Wiley 2011).

His unique approach to marketing has led to recognition of Paul as a BtoB Magazine Top 25 B2B Marketer of the Year for 2010 and 2009 and winner of the DemandGen Award for Utilizing Marketing Automation to Fuel Corporate Growth in 2008. He is also a finalist for the last six years in a row in the Marketing Excellence Awards competition of the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA), and is a 2010 and 2005 gold award winner in Driving Demand.

Buzz Marketing for Technology, Paul’s blog, has been recognized as a Top 20 Marketing Blog for 2009 and 2008, a Top Blog to Watch for 2009 and 2008, and an Advertising Age Power 150 blog in the “Daily Ranking of Marketing Blogs.”

Paul has shared his marketing thought leadership as a featured speaker for the American Marketing Association, BtoB Magazine, CMO Club, MarketingProfs, Marketing Sherpa, Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), and ITSMA. He has appeared on Fox News, and his articles have been featured in BusinessWeek, The New York Times, BtoB Magazine, MarketingProfs and MarketingSherpa.

Paul holds an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Computer Science from Ithaca College.

Noa Gafni

Noa Gafni is a digital marketing expert. Noa began her career as an entrepreneur, founding Queen Bees, a social network for women. The company was a portfolio venture of Astia, an organisation that Noa continues to be involved with to this day. Noa then went on to become the head of social media at Hearst Magazines US, working with leading brands Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, and Country Living, among others. Since 2008, Noa has been working as an independent digital strategist. Her client roster includes Real Madrid, Shidonni, LinkedIn spokesperson Lindsey Pollak, and Lloyd’s of London.  Noa holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from London Business School.

Nick Faber

Nick Faber lives in Durham, NC, and is the social instigator at Blogads.com. Nick started with Blogads in 2005, and after a three-year stint in New York City, is happy to be back at the home office of Carrboro, NC. Nick writes for the Blogads blog and twitter accounts, and produces most of the company’s A/V content. A fan of short fiction, Nick and his friends once wrote 1,000 100-word stories based on user-submitted titles on the site Name Your Tale. Nick’s non-digital hobbies include walking his dog in the woods and making doughnuts for his friends. Follow him on twitter at @NickBlogads.

Charlie Lyons

Charlie Lyons heads up the account team for Beyond in EMEA, a creative digital agency with offices in London, NYC and San Francisco. Excited by the marriage of ideas, people and technology he is continually exploring ways to deliver amazing campaigns for some of the globes leading brands. You can follow him on twitter @charliely0n5

Bibi Jordan

Bibi Jordan is a award-winning photographer and writer who is currently producing the first international, multi-lingual transmedia storytelling project. In this prequel to her 3D feature film, LIKE A RIVER, participants go on a virtual journey down the Amazon River as they follow the 3D vlogs, blogs and tweets of four main characters.  Besides being a visual feast of rain forest adventure, the experience is designed to immerse participants into the realities of a environment threatened by climate chaos and provide participants with options for social activism and engagement.  A graduate of Swarthmore College in International Relations and of the University of Geneva in African Studies, Bibi Jordan has previously published two books of African design, SAFARI CHIC and SWAHILI CHIC.  Her work has won four USA Best Book Awards, two Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, and two Nautilus Book Awards. A USA/UK citizen, she speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and French.  She lives in Southern California and travels frequently to endangered ecosystems around the world.

Betul Naziksoy

Betul Naziksoy is a Partner Manager at Groupon Turkey and was previously an event marketing & trade marketing executive at Red Bull for four years.  Betul studied economics and music and maintains an interest in music,dancing, reading, sports( tennis & yoga) , traveling, cooking and designing.

Betul blogs at  http://cadikizlarkonseyi.blogspot.com/ writing about trends, fashion, arts, nightlife, decoration etc. & want to be a known musician and writer in few years.

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Our agency is dedicated to helping consumers enhance or extend their quality of life. Wellness is not just our name. It’s our calling. Follow us @saatchiwellness

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to announce Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness as the first of many company contributors.  Company contributors will consist of content from various individuals within a company and serve as an opportunity to hear from a diverse range of views from a given space. Be sure to look out for their content!

Sarah Wulfeck

Sarah Wulfeck is the Director of Content and Community at Beyond International (www.bynd.com), a Next15 property. Prior to her work at Beyond, Sarah worked as a Strategic Programs Manager at Federated Media (www.federatedmedia.net), managing conversational marketing campaigns for clients such as Verizon, Intuit, Samsung and UPS. The UPS/”PopURLs” campaign went on to win the Forrester Groundswell Award for best B2B social execution. Prior to FM, Sarah worked as the National Community Producer for CBS Television Stations Digital News Group, strategizing and implementing social media tactics across all of the CBS/CW Owned and Operated television news stations. Sarah is a pioneer in the online journal space (blogging), having created her first website in the mid-90s and gaining notoriety as one of the first “life-casters” at www.puce.com. Sarah is also known as the voice of “Cream, The Rabbit” in the Sega video game series, “Sonic, The Hedgehog.” She holds a BFA in Screenwriting from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and a MA in Journalism and Mass Communication, also from NYU. Twitter: @skwulf