About

At Tom Parish Inc. we help you navigate and master the wilds of the social web to accomplish your goals. From strategy to management, our seasoned team is eager to help you with each step, and train your team to join the conversation the Right way.

Our focus is providing guidance, service and web strategy than allows you to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the diverse, geographically untethered, dynamic discussion on the web.

Tom Parish

Tom Parish is founder and CEO of Tom Parish Inc. and a proven thought leader in the realm of social media. Having worked with/on/in the Internet since its infancy, Tom has been intimately involved with the mingled evolution of web and business over the last two decades.

Tom also hosts the multi-interest interview show Talking Portraits, as well as the EnterpriseLeadership.org show, designed to illustrate where business management and IT meet at the CIO level.

Check out the recent production for TV by Tom Parish Inc. called Shooting the Americans.

Tom Parish

Jenny Meadows

Copy-editor with a sharp eye and a second-to-none understanding of the English language. Jenny caught catching errors in her father’s students’ papers at age 10 and has been going strong since! Her website and her services can be found at MyCopyEditor.com.

Larry Sayer

Audio and video production and editing for our full-service media creation studio

Carolyn Baehr

Producer, director and writer for our video documentary projects. (Check the blog for the Rural Wind Power Generation documentary we recently completed.)

Robert Matney

Robert Matney is a social web strategist, communication mechanic, marketeer, and copy-writer passionate about narrative and authentic discourse with audiences. Robert is interested in the intersection of identity performance, software, social collaboration, and social web measurement, and brings a wealth of web application experience, organizational design, and collaboration tactics.

For technology companies, he focuses on integrating social web platforms to foster community. As Communications Director and Relationship Advocate for Amicus, Inc. Robert Matney led the marketing, communications, and customer support divisions for a business-to-business, web application boutique firm. Under the slogan of “Freakishly Good Support” he managed a support structure known for transparency, courtesy, and promptness.

Darinda LaFlash

Darinda LaFlash contributes her print, media, and online communications experience of more than 25 years. She enjoys all things technical, yet is a firm believer that there’s no substitute for great communication, whether in person, in print, through the earbud, or on a large or tiny screen.

Elizabeth M. Ferrarini

Since 2003, Elizabeth M. Ferrarini has been disseminating senior information technology (IT) thought leadership across a broad range of audiences and media — print, podcasts, and videocasts. Her experience includes providing editorial content (contractor) for BMC Software’s virtual user communities. These vendor-agnostic communities enable BMC to listen objectively to what key constituents have to say, and in return, provide first-rate content from well-known academics, best-selling management book authors, and C-level executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Ferrarini performs a similar contractor function for BTM Exchange’s expert user community. Between enterpriseleadership.org and btmexchange.com, Ferrarini has interviewed a variety of leaders, from Steve Forbes to Carly Fiorina, to best-selling authors and academics, such as Bill George and Noel Tichy. She has interviewed global CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs, such as Dave Barnes, CIO of UPS; Rich Marcogliese, COO of Valero Energy; Bill McNabb, CEO of Vanguard Group; and Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chairman of the board of Carlson Companies. She was also a researcher for the BTM Exchange’s forthcoming book, The Convergence Scorecard, to be published in late 2009 by the Harvard Business School Press.

She has  10 years experience handling corporate communications for both established IT companies and emerging storage management companies. Her clients included Precise Software, HighGround Systems, StorageTek, and Oracle. Her books include Confessions of an Infomaniac (Sybex), and Infomania: The Guide to Essential Electronic Services (Houghton Mifflin). She has a BS in Journalism, and a MS in Corporate Communications. She also has taught public relations full time at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.