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This week's interview is with my friend and colleague, Tom Parish.  Tom is head of Tom Parish, Inc., and a well-known podcaster featured at ITConversations.com.

Tom Parish founded a specialist social media advisory consultancy more than 2 years ago, which acts for corporations considering the use of social media systems and related business strategies. It advises boards on how to design flexible strategic approaches, manage the social media process and create benchmarks. Social media includes consumer generated media, business blogs, multi-media (audio and video) used in viral marketing and RSS technology for easily distributing all forms of media globally on portable and non-portable devices. Tom is host of Enterpriseleadership.org sponsored by BMC Software and his own show called Talking Portraits at ITConversations.com.

Tom began working with the Internet in its infancy while employed by a spin-off from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1983. (Tom graduated from TAMU with a BSEE in 1976). He has been intimately involved with the intertwined evolution of the web and business in the last two decades. In addition to his 13 years as a highly respected engineer and engineering manager, Tom also has 12 years as a top performer in sales at high-tech companies.

In the 1990s, Tom combined his extensive Internet expertise and sales experiences to manage a global marketing and creative service group for Motorola's highly successful worldwide Digital DNA brand marketing campaign -- it successfully reached more than 22 million people in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Tom produced more than 80 audio Internet Radios shows for the Digital DNA Internet Radio Program.