It’s Official: I’m at Altimeter Group
A couple months ago, I answered a general tweet from Jeremiah Owyang, Partner at Altimeter Group, and was surprised to get a response later that day. He asked me for my resume, which led to an interview and eventually a job! You can see part of the exchange here.
Yesterday, Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group, made the official announcement of new additions to the staff. I’m honored to be included on this list as a part-time Researcher for at least the next few months.
Many of you already know that I’ll be working under a very esteemed group of people. Charlene is well-known for her work at Forrester Research, and her book “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies.” Joining Charlene in August 2009, are Jeremiah Owyang, R “Ray” Wang, and Deborah Schultz.
I’ll be primarily working with Jeremiah, researching emerging technology and customer engagement strategies. Jeremiah is a former Forrester analyst as well. HIs blog, Web Strategy, is arguably the No. 1 blog in his industry.
Back in March, I asked a friend friend’s to hand deliver “Groundswell” to me when I was still living in Vietnam. I used Charlene’s book as a framework for my research paper on online customer engagement in the US and Vietnam.
I’ve been at Altimeter for about three weeks now and needless to say, I’m excited to be working with such an incredible group of people. I’ll be sharing some of my experiences at Altimeter on this blog, so stay tuned for more!
In the meantime, you can see what we’re all up to on our Jeremiah’s Altimeter Group Twitter list.
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It’s a REAL pleasure to have you Christine, your quality of work, attention to detail and pleasant manner is a real joy to work with. I’m hoping you’ll learn a lot and grow your career here at the Altimeter Group!