About

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The thoughts and views expressed on this blog are mine and do not reflect those of my employer or clients.

About me then.. That’s probably what you’re looking for on this page.. My main interests lie around Social Media and Online Marketing, Along with the above, all things Digital, Tech and Mobile. Starting to dabble in photography and a bit of an Apple fanboy. Sorry.

You can find the now infamous ‘How to use Twitter to find your next job‘ blog post here and also the PR Wiki here.

Here’s the bit where I break in to 3rd person mode..

Michael Litman is one of the Social Media Planners at Dare.

He does digital plannery type things on Sony (UK&Global), BMW, The FA, Nescafe, Premier Inn and Standard Life in the Dare Social team.

Formerly the Social Media Strategist for Consolidated PR working in their Digital practice, Michael was passionate about educating the company and its clients on best practices on the social web and engagement with online media.

Recent campaigns include working with MTV Staying Alive and Spotify, blogger relations for HSBC, amplifying film launches digitally for Disney, online reputation management for KLM, a graduate employment campaign for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), and a youth-focussed health programme for the Scottish Government.

Previous experience includes award-winning campaigns for clients including Smirnoff, Marmite, Bulleit Bourbon, Westfield London, ShoZu and Big Yellow Storage.

Active on the London PR / social media scene attending events and networking which has immense value in developing professional connections, existing friendships and knowledge growth.

With experience of previously running his own business for 2 years successfully at 16 and generating a positive profit figure along with working for such names like Argos, Hewlett Packard, Orange, Kontraband and Splendid Communications.

Here’s a few things he’s been mentioned in recently:

• (April 2010) Mike Litman’s blog as model for future of media outlets (http://bit.ly/dvjlOA)

• (Feb 2010) People on the Move by Jeremiah Owyang (http://bit.ly/c6Kgd2)

• (Jan 2010) I’m joining Dare (http://bit.ly/akZotL)

• (Dec ’09) TrendsSpotting 2010 Social Media Influencers – Trend Predictions (http://bit.ly/7ALm30) Republished on Mashable and Read Write Web amongst many others.

• (Dec ’09) Junta42 – Social Media and Content Marketing Predictions 2010 (http://bit.ly/7FYEXz)

• (Nov ’09) Interview by Murray Newlands (http://bit.ly/4TnRwZ)

• (Oct ’09) Only Dead Fish – Post of the month (http://bit.ly/18Bv5G)

• (Sept ’09) BBC Tech – Provided comment for feature on Snow Leopard. (http://bit.ly/10bzRy)

• (June ’09) FT.com Feature – ‘Young job hunters seek work through Twitter’ (http://bit.ly/4Afgs) subsequently republished in the Telegraph

• (April ’09) Mashable post – ‘Social Media and Car Insurance: A Match Made in Heaven?’ (http://bit.ly/meerkat)

• (April ’09) April 16th Issue and November 21st (’08) issues of PR Week under ‘Best of The Tech Blogs’

• (March ’09) Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs by Junta42 (http://bit.ly/top42blogs)

• (Feb ’09) Top 10 list of UK PR people on Twitter (http://bit.ly/top10PRtwitter)

• Article on how to use Twitter to find your next job featured on Mashable, Problogger, Cnet (http://bit.ly/cnetlinkedin), the Telegraph (http://bit.ly/telegraphuk) and Mr Tweet (http://bit.ly/mrtweet)

• (Nov ’08) Top 50 UK PR people by Twitter influence (http://bit.ly/top50PR)

• Creator of UK Media Tweeple (Wiki)

• http://ukmediatweeple.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Yes, I’m the twitter cake guy.. I sent my 500th twitter follower @Dannywhatmough, someone I’d never spoken to or met before, a cake. A cake to say thanks for following and reaching a milestone. He was a great sport! You can read more about that here, Danny’s response here and Danny’s pic of the cake here.

On 9th December 2008, this blog was awarded ‘Blog of the Day’ on Fuelmyblog.com which I’m baffled but still pleased about!

My Someoneonetoldme photo is here which was taken in December 2008 in Shoreditch.

Tags of interest - digital / new media, blogging, social tools, online PR, mobile, social networks, emerging tech, brand conversations.

** This is a lie.