{"id":948,"date":"2009-02-23T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/?page_id=948"},"modified":"2013-12-30T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:35:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Paul Gillin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paul<\/a>I’m a long-time technology journalist who’s worked almost exclusively online since 1999. I advise marketers and business executives on strategies to optimize their use of social media and online channels to reach buyers cost-effectively. In addition to my consulting and writing, I do a lot of speaking and seminars. I have a knack for simplifying complex concepts and making technology trends understandable.<\/p>\n

I wrote a book in 2007 book called The New Influencers<\/a><\/em> that got a lot of nice comments and sold pretty well. It was about the changes in markets being driven by the new breed of bloggers and podcasters. I followed that with\u00a0Secrets of Social Media Marketing<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2008), Social Marketing to the Business Customer<\/a><\/em> (co-written with\u00a0Eric Schwartzman<\/a>, 2011) and Attack of the Customers<\/a> (2012). <\/em>In between the business books I also squeezed in The Joy of Geocaching<\/a>, <\/em>which is about an Internet-enabled global game that my wife and co-author, Dana<\/a>, like to play.<\/p>\n

I actually don’t blog very much on this site anymore. Much of my recent work has appeared on the Profitecture blog<\/a>. Profitecture is a small start up that provides social media training to B2B companies and their channel partners, and I’m happy to be a founding associate. I’ve also written extensively for BtoB<\/em> magazine<\/a>, but with the folding of that magazine into\u00a0Advertising Age <\/em>at the end of 2013, I probably won’t be contributing there in the future. I maintain another blog called Newspaper Death Watch<\/a>, where I chronicle the changes going on in the news journalism. I keep a list of all my posts and articles<\/a> on Delicious in more-or-less reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n

\"TheFinally, I’m a Senior Research Fellow and board member of the Society for New Communications Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my past life, I was founding editor-in-chief of\u00a0TechTarget<\/a>, which was one of the first B2B publishers to understand the power of the Internet to address focused markets. Before that, I was editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly\u00a0Computerworld<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for 15 years. Prior to that, who cares?<\/p>\n

I’m married to Dana, who makes me smile all the time. I have four children, two in their twenties and a pair of adorable toddler twins (right). I like to cook, scuba dive, ski, golf and geocache. I’ve been a Boston Red Sox season ticket holder since 2004.<\/p>\n

You can e-mail me<\/a>, call me at (508) 656-0734 and follow me\u00a0@pgillin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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