Matt O'Neill
Matt O'Neill is a director of specialist new media communications consultancy, Cordovan Digital (formerly Imarco Activ-Media) and a part of Cordovan, a sales and marketing consultancy group.

After gaining a first class honors degree in Media and Communication, his career started in the production of live webcasts for major events. During his six-year tenure as director and senior partner with Cordovan Digital, he has been involved in numerous large-scale communications projects with private, public sector and international organizations. These have included simple CD ROM's to aid corporate change communication, through to fully integrated social media projects to bring about wide-scale culture change.

At Cordovan Digital, Matt's clients have included Novartis, Pharmion, First Data, United Nations, British Council, Volvo, ESAB, National Air Traffic Services and GE and more, working strategically with social media and networks, audio and video podcasting, DVD/online video event capturing and online training. Although using digital media, Matt supports the division’s mantra of keeping communications human.

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Neville Hobson, ABC, the Hub's previous Channels and New Media expert, is a communicator, blogger and podcaster, one of the leading European early adopters and influencers in new-media communication for business.

Neville is also vice president, new marketing at Crayon, a new-marketing company where he's a founding principal. The company launched in Second Life in October 2006.

He blogs daily at NevilleHobson.com with commentary and opinion on business communication and technology, and co-presents For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a twice-weekly business podcast at the intersection of online communication, business and technology.

He is a frequent speaker on the subject of new media communication channels and their effective use in organizational communication.

Recent Questions

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