About Amber Naslund
Amber Naslund is a communications and business strategist, and the Director of Community for Radian6. In her professional role, she cultivates the Radian6 brand through speaking, content creation, client strategy and support, and online engagement.
For the past 15 years, Amber has worked with businesses of all sizes, from the Fortune 50 to startups and local nonprofits, to lead branding, communications, and client experience initiatives. She’s enjoyed a diverse career as a fundraiser, client services professional, marketing and communications executive, and entrepreneur. Today, she focuses her work and writing on creating effective change, and solving business problems through better communication, online and off.
Amber is also a frequent speaker at conferences and private events, talking about the intersection of the web, communication, and business culture. Amber is an avid writer and passionate content creator, and her blog has been been recognized among Forbes’ 20 Best Social Media and Marketing Blogs By Women, as PostRank’s top community management blog of 2009, as one of the Top 10 Social Media Blogs of 2010, and among the AdAge Power 150. Her first book – coauthored by digital strategist Jay Baer – will discuss the impact of the social web on internal business, and will be published by Wiley & Sons in February 2011.
Disclosures and Affiliations
I am employed by Radian6 as their director of community.
I serve on the social media council of advisors for the Marketing Executive’s Networking Group (MENG). This is a volunteer position.
I’m frequently sent unsolicited review copies of books, many of which I read and give away. I rarely do book reviews online.
I will and do include affiliate links on occasion in content online, but will always disclose where those appear, and will never use them to market a product or service that I do not personally endorse.
If you send me products, books, or other things for review that I do not solicit, you understand that doing so does not guarantee a review or statement of any kind, and that the outcome of any such reviews is not guaranteed. I will always disclose such reviews.
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