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New media pioneer, BBC journalist, and technical mind.
Biography
Who: The New Media Pioneer
What: He’s into high-tech gadgets, lives in Cambridge, and was one of the first to own an iPod touch.
Why: Bill can advise businesses on how to deal with oncoming technical changes. As such, he helps pave the way for a well-prepared, productive and competent company.
New media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge, England. He has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984.
Indeed, Bill knows everything there is to know about technologies, and future technologies. He is a bona fide expert. Back in the nineties, he set up The Guardian website, a groundbreaker that paved the way for many other similar online sites. Later, he became the Ambassador for Pipex, a position that meant for much public speaking, introducing the masses to the company and its many benefits.
Currently, Bill keeps himself busy with his weekly column, the BillBoard, which appears in the technology section of the BBC News website, while also contributing to other off and on-line publications, including The Times, The Register, and The New Statesman. Additionally, he writes a monthly column for new net users for BBC WebWise, and a technology column for Focus magazine. He’s also a familiar voice within the media; he appears weekly on Digital Planet (formerly Go Digital) on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC Radio and television programmes.
Bill is a visiting lecturer at City University where he teaches Online Journalism, an external editor for OpenDemocracy.net and a consultant for wattwatt, the energy efficiency blog, as well as the Editor and Systems Administrator for the Working 4, an MP website.
Needless to say, Bill is an experienced, educational and inspiring after-dinner, keynote and public speaker. He is much in demand by those wanting to prepare for the future and whatever technological changes it might bring. Clients are impressive and include many financial, medical and media bodies.