About

Brian Solis is a principal analyst at Altimeter Group. He is also an award-winning author, prominent blogger, and keynote speaker.

Solis has studied and influenced the effects of social media and disruptive technology on business, marketing, entertainment, and culture. Brian works with enterprise organizations to research market trends, disruptive technology, and emerging business opportunities. He also works with executive management and social media leadership to develop new strategies and align teams around initiatives that enable business objectives and priorities. Over the years, Brian has also led new media business and marketing efforts for Web 2.0 startups and celebrities.

His latest book, The End Of Business As Usual, looks at the changing consumer landscape, its impact on business and what companies can do to adapt and lead. It was recently named as a Top 10 Business Book by Publisher’s Weekly. His previous book Engage, is regarded as the industry reference guide for developing effective social business and social media strategies.

Brian’s blog is ranked in the top 10 marketing blogs in the AdAge Power 150 and is also a Top 100 business blog as ranked by Technorati. In addition to his writing and research, Brian is the host of the annual Pivot Conference where brands, agencies, and experts come together to address challenges and opportunities in new media.

Brian also hosts Revolution, a popular online video series that examines technology, trends and best practices and introduces viewers to the thought leaders who are blazing the trail. Guests have included Katie Couric, Mark Burnett, and Guy Kawasaki.

Altimeter Group

At Altimeter, Brian works with businesses on new media strategies and frameworks to build bridges between companies and customers, employees, and other important stakeholders. Additionally, he specializes in change management and to help businesses (and the leadership team) introduce new media resources, systems and processes, and management layers to embrace and excel around the connected customer. As a result of his work in the social enterprise, CRM Magazine named Brian as an influential leader of 2010 and was the recipient of an Authority of the Year award by SoftwareAdvice in 2011.

Pivot Conference

In addition to his writing and research, Brian is the host and curator of the annual Pivot Conference where brands, agencies, and experts come together to address challenges and opportunities in new media.

FutureWorks

Prior to joining Altimeter, Solis was principle of FutureWorks, founding a creative agency and business consultancy for new media in 1999. Through FW, Solis led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, leading brands, and Web 2.0 startups. Additionally, Brian specializes in change management and organizational transformation to help businesses (and the leadership team) introduce new media resources, systems and processes, and management layers to effectively embrace and excel around the social consumer.

He has also contributed to FastCompany, BusinessWeek, AdAge, Harvard Business Review, and Mashable.

As a sought-after speaker, Solis actively shares his vision and experiences through keynotes and presentations at conferences and events worldwide to help organizations understand and embrace the dynamics defining the rise of connected consumerism, social business, and its impact on markets, behavior and culture.

The Rise of Social Enterprise
Brian Solis has been actively writing about disruptive technology, emerging business models, and new marketing and business since the mid 90s to document the impact on the future of media, commerce, and culture. He was also among the original thought leaders working to organize and define the “Social Media” movement to establish a definitive media category. In early 2007, he wrote the worldwide hit The Social Media Manifesto, which showed in detail how organizations need to rethink business, marketing and service strategies.

Books

The End of Business as Usual explores the rise of the connected consumer, their effect on the bottom line, and how organizations can adapt to effectively compete for their attention, their business or contribution, and most importantly, their loyalty. The book examines how leading companies are finding success with connected customers. And, the lessons, case studies, and best practices contained within will help readers earn the support of organizational leaders by identifying growth opportunities and prioritizing where to invest time and resources. The result is creating an adaptive foundation for businesses to not only build relationships with connected customers, but improve customer AND employee relationships overall. As the subtitle states, we must rewire the way we work to succeed in what really is nothing short of a consumer revolution.

Engage is an award winning and best selling book that become the industry’s reference guide to smarter social media strategy and practices. Versions 1 and 1 provide a deep review of the evolution of new media and how to integrate new technologies and methodologies into everyday activity. It is written for champions and executives alike in business, marketing, branding, interactive, service, and communications with a mission to help all aspects of business to the table. Engage helps readers design social media marketing and service strategies and programs that matter, work, and that perform against business objectives.

Prior to Engage, Solis partnered with co-author Deirdre Breakenridge on Putting the Public Back in Public Relations, which became a best seller in the communications industry.

In 2007, Solis worked with Geoff Livingston, on Now is Gone, an early, award-winning book that helps businesses learn where to start in Social Media and why.

Solis has also contributed many forewords including Social Media ROI by Vincenzo Cosenza, Smart Business, Social Business by Michael Brito,  Social Media ROI by Olivier Blanchard, The Hidden Power of Your Customers by Becky Carroll, PR 2.0 by Deirdre Breakenridge, MySpace Marketing by Sean Percival, and Twittfaced by Jacob Morgan, among others.

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