Mick Fealty

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I help public and private and voluntary sector organisations get to grips with the new social aspects of conducting business in a market where the customers/the voters/the stakeholders are constantly talking back.

I work with individuals and groups within organisations to help them listen and enter the wider conversation (both inside and outside of the organisation). I take them through the use of emergent technologies that stimulate collaboration, creativity and innovation.

But it is about more than just implementing social tools. We can help organisations understand the Web 2.0 news cycle; how online participative processes can improve policy-making; and how even apparently established disruptive technologies like blogs and Twitter can in turn be disrupted by newer, more democratic formats.

I also give talks on how technology creates new opportunities for more engaged and disaggregating forms of journalism and in particular for high quality cross community engagement in post conflict zones.

I write on technology, journalism and politics for the Irish Times, the Guardian's Comment is Free, the Daily Telegraph, Prospect Magazine and the Financial Times.

A former visiting research associate at Queens University, Belfast my longer work includes: 'A Long Peace: the future of Unionism in Northern Ireland' (Slugger O'Toole); 'Through Irish Eyes', a report on attitudes in the Republic towards the UK (British Council, Ireland); and was a contributor to Track Two to Peace? Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (University of Southern California).