Gender

Male

Location

Cape Town

Birthday:

April 18

School / Work Affiliation

Eclectic

Website

https://www.eclectic.co.za

About Me

Marketing manager at Korbitec Systems, Rudy Nadler-Nir has been actively involved in the electronic industry - and the interactive community for almost 20 years. He was General Manager for Service Provider giant Internet Africa as well as a founding member of iafrica.com - Africa’s largest Web Portal. Rudy was also Strategic Director at OgilvyInteractive - the online arm of advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. A strategist-at-large and brain-for-rent, Rudy Nadler-Nir has been teaching, lecturing, speaking and writing extensively on various aspects of electronic business management and communication. Post-Graduate Studies: Rudy has a Master's degree in Adult Learning and Global Change from the University of the Western Cape. (On Hold: A doctoral student at UWC, focusing on social networks and digital kinship systems (aka digital anthropology), focusing on the way young adults use cellphones. Note: I have taken a break from studies, but my research and scholarship work are ongoing.) Rudy Nadler-Nir’s Specialties: 1. Social networks & digital kinship systems. 2. Semantic Web & contextual meaning. 3. Opinion generation & "pull"-based communication. 4. Content, traffic & transactive conduct. 5. Communities of Practice & the creation of effective learning models. 6. Adapting professional authoring (journalism, marketing & user-directed communication) to cope with constraints imposed by implied-language usage (SEO, keywords etc.) & automatic aggregators (Search Engines & RSS.)