Robin Hamman
Robin Hamman, March 2004 - Photo
by Piotr Malecki for Playboy Polska
An
early adopter by almost anyone's standards, Robin Hamman has been interested
in online communities since 1985 when he set up a local Bulletin Board System
(BBS) on his Apple IIe.
Since 1995, Robin has
been researching and writing about online communities. He is also one of the
most experienced online community managers in the UK. In addition to internet
experience, Robin also has some experience of managing wireless communities
using GSM mobile telephony and interactive television.
Recognised internationally
as an expert in his field, Robin has frequently been interviewed by online,
print, and broadcast journalists around the World. See the list below:
Newspapers:
- The Miami Herald
- The Independent (UK)
- New York Post
- New York Times
- Rzeczpospolita (Poland)
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Magazines:
- Playboy (Poland)
- Internet
Works (UK)
- Visao (Portugal)
- Quo (Mexico)
- Harpers Bazaar (Mexico)
- Computerworld (Poland)
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Radio:
- Radio
702 (S. Africa)
- BBC Radio West Midlands
- BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester
- BBC Radio 4 (pilot - not aired)
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Television:
- BBC 1 London Evening News
- Network of the World (UK)
- UK Living Television
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Online:
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Additionally, an interview
with Robin appears in Antonio Montesino's book, "La Sociedad de
la Informacion e Internet" San Pablo, 1999
Robin has written
a number of articles for periodicals, including:
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Connected (Scottish Executive’s Magazine for Educators)
(article)
- Information Communication and Society (book review)
Longer
articles by Robin have appeared in the following book collections:
- Social Research Methods: A Reader,
edited by Clive Seale (Nov. 2003)
- Online Communities: Commerce,
Community Action and the Virtual University, edited by Miranda Mowbray and
Chris Werry (Jan. 2001). [Also in Japanese Translation] Buy
it at Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk
or Amazon.fr
- Commu
nity Informatics : Enabling
Communities With Information and Communications Technologies, edited by Michael
Gurstein (July 2000).Buy it at Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk
or Amazon.fr
- Virtuelle Gruppen. Charakteristika
und Problemdimensionen, edited by Udo Thiedeke (2000). [German Translation
of article in English] Buy it at Amazon.de
Robin has given
lectures at a number of univers
ities, including:
And Robin has given
presentations at a number of Corporations, Galleries, and Events:
Robin has done freelance
consulting for:
Current Employment
BBCi's Robin Hamman (centre)
along with the BBC Norfolk's web team and now-classical musician Myleene
Klaas following a web chat. |
BBC
English Regions - Community Producer with responsibility for user-to-user
interactivivity on 42 regional sites across England. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/england) |
Previous Employment:
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Robin pho
tographed running a web chat with Steve Redgrave,
5 time Olympic Gold Medalist, for Wellbeing.com. |
Co-Head* of
Community & Executive Development Producer, Granada Broadband (see
http://www.granadamedia.com). Granada
and Carlton have merged into a single ITV company, making it by far
the UK's largest independent television company.
Whilst at Granada, I also
was involved in selling and providing services to a number of third
party clients including:
- Department for Education
and Skills (DfES)
- Liverpool Football Club
- Arsenal Football Club
- The Big Picture Interactive
- The British Council
- Nationwide Building Society
- Boots the Chemist
*with Jasmine Malik - now
a founder of Tempero Moderation Services |
Before
joining Granada, Robin worked as 'Communities Evangelist' at
TalkCast (http://www.talkcast.com, an internet and wireless communications start-up based
in London. He helped oversee community aspects of Texer, the UK's first anonymous SMS chat room services. He also helped
develop ways to do SMS marketing through games, buddy lists and other user-to-user
interactive wireless applications.
Prior
to joining TalkCast, Robin was Communities Producer
at BBC Online where he
implemented the chat system still in use there today, ran over 100 moderated
chats with a wide range of celebrities, experts, and politicians, and wrote
the training manuals for message board hosts and celebrity chat producers.
BBC Online is Europe's #1 content website and celebrity chats are regularly
attended by over 5000 users.
Academic
and Industry Conferences
Other online community
stuff of interest...
- First Co-Host of the Life Online conference at Howard Rheingold's
Brainstorms Community
- Committe
Member of emint, the Association of Online Community Professionals (role:
Marketting)
Education:
BA
in Secondary Education ('95) from Drake University,
Des Moines, Iowa.
MA
with Distinction in Sociology ('96) from the University
of Essex, Colchester, England.
MPhil
in Communication Studies ('99) from the University
of Liverpool, England
Currently
Enrolled on Part-Time CPE (Post-Graduate Law Conversion Course) at the University
of Hertfordshire
Personal:
Robin
was born in Peoria, Illinois and moved to England in 1995. He lives St. Albans, just outside London and has 3500 songs on his iPod. Robin
can be contacted via email: robin @ cybersoc.com