Brian is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media. He actively contributes his thoughts and experiences through speaking appearances, books, articles and essays as a way of helping the marketing and PR industries understand and embrace the new dynamics fueling new communications, marketing, and content creation.

He is co-founder of the Social Media Club and is an original member of the Media 2.0 Workgroup.

He has dedicated his free time to helping PR professionals adapt to the fusing of social sciences in Social Media Marketing and New PR and believes that communications always comes down to people talking to people instead of companies to influencers and then to customers.

In concert with Geoff Livingston, Solis recently released “Now is Gone” a new, award-winning book that helps businesses learn how to engage in Social Media.

His next book, co-author Deirdre Breakenridge, “Putting the Public back in Public Relations,” will be released by Pearson/Financial Times Press in Q1 2009.

He has also written several ebooks on the subjects of Social Media, New PR, Customer Service, and Blogger Relations.

He blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, TechCrunch, WebProNews, and BrandWeek.

Social media and PR 2.0 - learn from a leader!

We promised you “On the Edge” and “PR 2.0”. We can’t get any closer to those ideas than through the keynote presentation from Brian Solis, the principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, and the creator of the influential, top 2,500 Technorati blog – PR 2.0

Brian Solis is ranked in the Ad Age Power 150 index of leading marketing bloggers. He has been actively writing about new PR since the mid 90s to discuss how the Web was redefining the communications industry. It was Brian Solis who coined the phrase PR 2.0 and chose that as the name of his blog.

Brian was among the original thought leaders working to defend and define “Social Media” as a definitive media category. If you want to know what is really going on in the new fusion of PR, Web marketing, and community relations, then you want to hear an authentic voice with real vision.

Brian Solis will tell you what he has learned about social media from his research, his interaction with companies and organizations, his many speaking invitations all across North America, and his blog interaction with communicators from around the globe.