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Full Biography

Paul Gillin is a veteran technology journalist with more than 25 years of editorial experience. Since 2005, he has advised marketers and business executives on strategies to optimize their use of social media and online channels to reach buyers cost-effectively. He is a popular speaker who is known for his ability to simply complex concepts using plain talk, anecdotes and humor.

His critically acclaimed 2007 book, The New Influencers, chronicles the changes in markets being driven by the new breed of bloggers and podcasters. Among the more than 100 positive published reviewers of The New Influencers were The Wall Street Journal, The San Jose Mercury News and the BBC. The book was also awarded a silver medal in the business category by Foreword magazine. His latest book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing, was published in the fall of 2008. His third book, co-authored with Eric Schwartzman, is Social Marketing to the Business Customer, published by John Wiley & Sons in January, 2011. He is is also the co-author with wife Dana of The Joy of Geocaching, the story of a global game enabled by an Internet community.

Paul was previously founding editor-in-chief of TechTarget, one of the most successful new media entities of the early Internet. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld for 15 years.

In addition to his consulting and speaking, Paul writes for BtoB magazine and contributes regularly to other online marketing and communications sites. His work has appeared in scores of publications, including The New York Times, Advertising Age and the San Jose Mercury News. His website is www.gillin.com. He also writes the popular Newspaper Death Watch blog, as well as his own blog: paulgillin.com.

Paul is a Research Fellow and a member of the advisory board of the Society for New Communications Research and he co-chairs the social media cluster for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Married with two children, he lives in Framingham, MA, where he lives and dies by the fortunes of the Boston Red Sox.

Shorter Biography

Paul Gillin is a writer and content marketing consultant specializing in technology and new media. He advises business-to-business marketers on strategies to use quality content and social media to reach buyers.

Paul is a veteran technology journalist with more than 25 years of editorial leadership experience. He was founding editor-in-chief of TechTarget, one of the most successful Internet media companies. Previously, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of Computerworld. His award-winning book, The New Influencers, chronicles the changes in markets being driven by social media. His second book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing, was published in the fall of 2008. His third book, Social Marketing to the Business Customer, was co-authored with Eric Schwartzman and published by John Wiley & Sons in January, 2011. He is is also co-author with wife Dana of The Joy of Geocaching, the story of a global game enabled by an Internet community.

Paul is a Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research. He also chairs the Social Media cluster for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. His website is www.gillin.com and he blogs at paulgillin.com.

VERY Short Biography

Paul Gillin is a writer, speaker and online marketing consultant. He specializes in helping business-to-business marketers use social media and quality content to reach customers. His books include The New Influencers (2007), Secrets of Social Media Marketing (2008), The Joy of Geocaching (co-authored with wife Dana in 2010) and Social Marketing to the Business Customer (co-authored with Eric Schwartzman, January, 2011). Paul is a veteran technology journalist with more than 25 years of editorial leadership experience.His website is gillin.com and he blogs at paulgillin.com

Facts about Paul Gillin

• 25 years of technology and media journalism experience
• Editor-in-chief and executive editor of Computerworld for 12 years; publication received more than 100 editorial awards during that time.
• Winner of several awards for editorial writing
• Founding editor-in-chief and sixth employee at TechTarget, a successful Internet technology publisher.
• Has been interviewed and quoted hundreds of times by the media, including CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and nearly every major newspaper.
• Frequent speaker; has keynoted more than a dozen technology and media conferences, spoken at more than 100 others
• Write the New Channels column for BtoB Magazine
• Is a Boston Red Sox season ticket holder.
• Born Aug. 29, 1957, Hong Kong
• Married, four children
• Interests: cooking, jazz music, history, baseball, scuba diving, golf

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