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John C. Havens is VP, Social Media at Porter Novelli and the author of the book, Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media To Maximize Value and Build Their Brand (Wiley 2008). At Porter, John's focus is on consumer clients and creating content on the themes of transparency and augmented reality.
John being interviewed by Jolie O'Dell of ReadWriteWeb.
Before working at Porter, John was VP of Business Development at BlogTalkRadio where he helped launch and develop the Branded Network/white label version of BTR that was the company's primary source of revenue. In a little over a year, John was responsible for bringing in over 70% of the company's revenue and brought in/closed clients like Walmart, Ford, PepsiCo, Century 21, IBM, Allstate, State Farm, The Pentagon, Harper Collins, Hachette Book Group, Frommers, Wiley Publishing, Woman’s Day, and the USPS among others. John was also responsible for coordinating BTR's recent campaign with Walmart which led to a 253% increase of traffic to their website featuring their Twilight DVD release, their largest DVD pre-release to date (see Case Study Here).
John has been blogging about social media since 2005 when he was the first Guide to Podcasting at About.com (Download John's White Paper from About.com, SoundTheory). A frequent speaker on transparency (Download John's Speaking Info and Testimonials Here), John's work has been featured on ADOTAS (see his articles Here) and Fast Company.
Read, Building Trust With Transparency
Read John's article on Fast Company, Tactical Transparency and Organized Authenticity
- John Bell
- Geoff Livingston
- Jonathan Fields
- Quotes from Book Jacket including Chris Brogan, Jonathan Schwartz and Paolo Tosolini, among others.
John speaking on Transparency at The New Media Expo. He also was Lead Organizer for the two largest New York City
Unconferences (PodCampNYC) to date, (read John's interview in The New York Sun) where he led a team of ten
volunteers for events where over 1,500 people attended (see an excerpt from the Eventbrite list) and 150 people
spoke. John was also chief sponsorship coordinator, bringing in over
$50,000 for both events. John worked with innovation firm Idea Champions as Chief Connections Officer where he helped develop The Breakthrough Cafe, an interactive live event designed to help attendees brainstorm ideas from conception to fruition. John worked with a team that successfully trained and implemented a Breakthrough Cafe with General Mills, and also helped place a story with Fast Company (Inno-waiters with Whine Lists) as part of the project. As a follow up to the event, John designed a maintained a wiki connecting all participants to one another to serve as an accountability and networking tool.
John being interviewed at the Online News Association Conference. John moved to NYC in 1992 to pursue a career in acting, (see his full TV/Film resume Here at IMDB.com) where he was
featured (principal/speaking roles) on Broadway (and off) in TV, and
Film. Along the way he tried his hand at writing corporate scripts and
fell into marketing, consulting, and PR. He has written six non-fiction
titles, one novel, two one-person shows, plays guitar/harmonica, runs a
Father’s Group, and loves the fact that the new media marketplace
allows for people from varied and colorful backgrounds to speak their
voice with passion and conviction. Articles/Interviews/Books
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