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Dutch-born Henk van Ess is, according to The Economist, New York Times and CNBC, "a reporter and a technology expert". He is specialized in events and workshops about serious social media, search, crowd sourcing, long tail projects and internet strategy for news media and companies.
Van Ess is also tech author (latest: ʻThe Google Codeʼ, Pearsons), trainer and strategic internet consultant for radio, TV, magazines and newspapers. He chairs the VVOJ (Dutch--Flemish organisation for investigative journalists),
In 2011, he is working for the ARD/ZDF Medienakademie, University Amsterdam, Erasmusuniversity in Rotterdam, the Katholieke Hogeschool in Mechelen (Belgium) and Henri Nannen Schule in Hamburg.
Henk has a long record of implementing internet projects through practical labs for board, management and employees. He is often quoted in media, talking about current web topics.
Van Ess has trained over 2500 professionals in the practical and critical use of the web, multimedia, social media, cross media and internet research. He has run workshops for the media in Europe, the US and Canada (e.g. Spiegel, Die Zeit, AD, ABC, ARD, CBC, FD, HDC, NOS, NDP, NRC, NVBm, Zembla, VRT, NCRV, KRO, AVRO, Stern, FD, VN, Volkskrant, ZDF) and for companies and government bodies (e.g. Philips, ABN AMRO, Commissariaat voor de Media, Consumentenbond, KLPD, Ministerie van Justitie, Ministerie van Landbouw, police, Dutch libraries).
Henk is also deeply involved in the worldwide training of reporters and multimedia specialists. He is co-founder of the European Centre for Computer Assisted Research and is a regular speaker on social media & 'digital diggingʼ at world conferences.
Van Ess is member of several think tanks for new internet concepts like crowd sourcing and designing for tablets. As a hobby, he publishes websites about internet research. One of them was quoted on the official Google Blog under ʻWhat Weʼre Readingʼ. Dutch office: NL +31 337508747
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