Tom Raftery - an Irish technologist moving to Spain

My name is Tom Raftery. I am a Social media consultant based in Cork, Ireland. I advise companies on how best to use Web 2.0 technologies for their communications, for brand management and for knowledge management.

I author the highest subscribed blog in Ireland - Tom Raftery's Social Media, I podcast, I am the director of a data centre and I advise to an energy startup called SynergyModule.

Through my involvement with it@cork I organise many tech events and conferences and this year I am chairman of the it@cork conference committee.

I speak at international conferences regularly - this year I spoke at:
Reboot 9.0 in Copenhagen
gave a keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin and
I will be speaking at the Le Web 3 conference in Paris.

So why am I writing here?

Next year (2008) my family and I are moving to Sevilla to live. One of the biggest challenges for me will be to find work, especially given my lack of Spanish!

I am going to start documenting on this blog details about the planned move and anything else I think may be relevant.

Thanks for stopping by and reading!