About
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Jon Reed is an author, speaker and marketing consultant. He has worked in social media since its earliest days, and has helped thousands of people use it effectively for marketing through his writing, speaking and workshops. He previously worked in academic publishing for 10 years, including as publishing director for McGraw-Hill.
He spends more of his time writing these days: his bestselling book Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2010, and the first of his guides for publishers and authors – The Publishing Talk Guide to Twitter - published in 2011.
Publishing Talk is Jon’s blog and online community for authors and publishers. It covers social media marketing, digital publishing, self-publishing and the future of publishing. It has the largest publishing community on Twitter with around 200,000 followers, and is rated the ‘most influential’ Twitter account about publishing by the Twitter directory WeFollow.
Jon lectures on social media marketing on several university courses including Birkbeck, Brunel, City, Kingston and Bath Spa. He offers social media workshops and consultancy through Reed Media, and web design and branding for small businesses through Small Business Studio.
When not working, Jon enjoys taking photographs (see Flickr and Blipfoto), cycling and listening to Radio 4. You can find him on most social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.
Publications
- The Publishing Talk Guide to Blogging (Reed Media, 2012 – in preparation)
- The Publishing Talk Guide to Twitter (Reed Media, 2011)
- Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing: How to use websites, blogs, social networking and much more (FT Prentice Hall, 2010)
- “Small and Mighty”, The Deal: The Official Magazine of the London Book Fair, Spring 2009, pp12-14
- “Time to Talk”, The Deal: The official magazine of the London Book Fair (Spring 2008), pp12-15
- “Selling Yourself Online”, The Writer’s Handbook 2009
, Palgrave Macmillan (July 2008), pp9-13
Education
1993 BA (Hons) Psychology with International Relations, Staffordshire University; 1999 MSc Health Psychology, University of Westminster; 2006 PG Dip New Media Management, Birkbeck, University of London.
Career
1994 Research Psychologist, Staffordshire University; 1995 Editorial Assistant, Routledge; 1998 Senior Editor, BPS Books; 2000 Senior Editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 Health Sciences Publisher, Palgrave Macmillan; 2004 Publishing Director, McGraw-Hill & Open University Press; 2006 Director, Reed Media Ltd and Small Business Studio; 2007 Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Talk; 2010 Author.
