Dave Olson, Marketing Director, HootSuite. Dave (@daveohoots) is the Community Marketing Director for social media dashboard maker HootSuite. Working in the Internet space since 1996, Dave’s experience includes ISPs, ecommerce, open source web communities, movie promotion, a green business directory and an alternative accreditation program during the Vancouver Olympics. A graduate of Evergreen College in Inter-disciplinary Studies, he frequently presents at events and to the media discussing technology, art, and culture. After living and traveling worldwide, Dave now enjoys exploring his local North Vancouver mountains and forests.
On Saturday, November 5th, 2011, Capilano University hosted a TEDx event with the usual format of invited speakers from diverse fields coming together with curious audiences to share ideas, opinions and knowledge. I was honoured to be one of the speakers and shared my experience traveling and how i learned what i do to build communities around brands, causes or creations.
And leave it to HootSuite community marketing director (and closing TEDx Cap U speaker) Dave Olson to log the most tweets during the event. “Need an iPhone charger at #TEDx CapU”, was one such post. The social media guru clearly grasped the TEDx CapU networking strategy, adding to his 4,000-plus followers on Twitter.
My favourite thing about getting to work with social media as much as I do is connecting with and getting to know people… towards the top of that list of people is Dave Olson, a story-teller extraordinaire and wise, humourous, and humble human being.
