Shashi Bellamkonda is concurrently Sr. Director, Social Media at Network Solutions (Employee given title Social Media Swami) and adjunct Faculty at the Georgetown University in Washington DC.
A Wharton alumnus, Shashi was featured in Washingtonian’s Top 100 Tech Titans list in the Community and Thought leadership. The Washington Business Journal called him the Social Listener. Other media mentions include Washington Post, WUSA9, NY1 TV, Webmaster Radio, BlogTalk Radio, SAP Global Survey by Shel Israel, Shel Holtz’s For ImmediateRelease, Tech BisNow, Capitol Communicators and many other digital and media publications.
Shashi is passionate about helping small business and has spoken on small business and social media tools at conferences like SXSW, IABC, PRSA, and Affiliate Summit. Blogging is a passion and along with http://blog.networksolutions.com he blogs at http://www.shashi.co and writes for The Washington Business Journal blog, examiner.com and occasionally for techcocktail.com. Shashi speaks at international, national and regional small business, communications and marketing conferences.
Shashi started his blog ( http://www.shashi.co ) to keep his thousands of on and offline friends and fans up to date on the coolest new sites and tech-toys to check out, and to answer their questions about social media and technology. A resident of Maryland, Shashi Bellamkonda speaks 7 languages and ardently works to spin his favorite hobbies into his profession. Shashi lives for technology, testing new innovations and helping people with small businesses to succeed. While he describes himself as an Internet junkie, others believe he is a thought leader and place him among the top 40 people to follow on social media.
