Chris Abraham, President and COO of Abraham Harrison LLC, is an Internet analyst and Web strategy specialist with expertise in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media.
Prior to starting Abraham Harrison, Chris was a member of the Interactive Team at Edelman Public Affairs in Washington, D.C, where he worked with clients such as Wal-Mart, Shell, and GE on blogger and social media strategy. Before Edelman, Chris was a Technology Strategist for New Media Strategies, a pioneer in online brand promotion and protection with clients including Sci-Fi Channel, Buena Vista, TomTom, Paramount Pictures, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Disney, Reebok, EA, RCA, and NBC.
Chris has had an influential web presence since 1993 and started blogging in 1999, focusing on community, connection, innovation, and brand extension. Today, Chris blogs for AdAge’s DigitalNext, JD Lasica’s Socialmedia.biz, and Rosetta Stone’s Language Journeys blog as well as Abraham Harrison’s Marketing Conversation and on his own blog, Because the Medium is the Message. Chris is @chrisabraham on Twitter and @chrisabraham on Facebook and Abraham Harrison LLC is @abrahamharrison on Twitter and @abrahamharrison on Facebook.
Chris has taught blogging courses for the Writer’s Center of Bethesda; has been a guest lecturer on public affairs blogging at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and at American University’s School of Communication; and is the Emergent Technologies Advisor to the Urban Institute’s Communications Advisory Board. Additionally, he is the go-to expert on social media, citizen journalism, technology, and the Internet for BBC World Service, CNN Radio, and CNet’s BNet.
Chris received his BA in American Literature from The George Washington University, studied American Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and studied French at the University of Hawaii. He splits his time between residences in Berlin, Germany, and Washington, D.C.
Chris Abraham
President and COO, Abraham Harrison LLC
Prior to starting Abraham Harrison, Chris was a member of the Interactive Team at Edelman Public Affairs in Washington, D.C, where he worked with clients such as Wal-Mart, Shell, and GE on blogger and social media strategy. Before Edelman, Chris was a Technology Strategist for New Media Strategies, a pioneer in online brand promotion and protection with clients including Sci-Fi Channel, Buena Vista, TomTom, Paramount Pictures, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Disney, Reebok, EA, RCA, and NBC.
Chris has had an influential web presence since 1993 and started blogging in 1999, focusing on community, connection, innovation, and brand extension. Today, Chris blogs for AdAge’s DigitalNext, JD Lasica’s Socialmedia.biz, and Rosetta Stone’s Language Journeys blog as well as Abraham Harrison’s Marketing Conversation and on his own blog, Because the Medium is the Message. Chris is @chrisabraham on Twitter and @chrisabraham on Facebook and Abraham Harrison LLC is @abrahamharrison on Twitter and @abrahamharrison on Facebook.
Chris has taught blogging courses for the Writer’s Center of Bethesda; has been a guest lecturer on public affairs blogging at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and at American University’s School of Communication; and is the Emergent Technologies Advisor to the Urban Institute’s Communications Advisory Board. Additionally, he is the go-to expert on social media, citizen journalism, technology, and the Internet for BBC World Service, CNN Radio, and CNet’s BNet.
Chris received his BA in American Literature from The George Washington University, studied American Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and studied French at the University of Hawaii. He splits his time between residences in Berlin, Germany, and Washington, D.C.