Contact policy on Emails:

I love getting comments and trackbacks but emails are a constant challenge because there are so many, and I can never keep up.

I spend a lot of my day running around San Francisco and Silicon Valley, interviewing the shakers and makers, sometimes talking on panels at conferences, and then coming back to focus on the basic principles of 101 Journalism: build readership through exclusive content. That means I have to stay away from the distractions of my inbox for several hours at a time so that I can interview people and write.

These you-can-only-get-it-here principles of journalism go back hundreds of years. Those principles are: scoops, original news, interviews and insights. The content *has* to be original and it has to add value--otherwise why bother?

So please send emails to Tom at SiliconValleyWatcher.com or pitches to news at SiliconValleyWatcher.com but please understand that I might not get to them in a timely manner--while other times I respond immediately. It all depends on where I am and how heavy my schedule, but please do not take it personally :-)

If you'd like to talk with me my cell phone is 415 336 7547. If you'd like to meet with me, call me on my cell phone--or try my email.

I prefer face-to-face and voice-to-voice, F2F/V2V communications, although email is fine for logistical stuff.

I like F2F/V2V because the quality of the interaction is higher; the relationship building is of a higher quality; and when you think about it, relationships is all we have, and the more higher quality relationships we can create, the better.

To summarize, email is fine but please don't think badly of me if I don't get to it right away, or even days later--it is not personal. You are welcome to resend emails. And you are always welcome to call or SMS my cell: 415 336 7547.

My Address is:

Tom Foremski

1900 Eddy Street Suite #6

San Francisco CA 94115

Reviews/gadgets

You can send evaluation units etc to the above address. SVW is not running many, if any reviews currently, but I/we do like to try out new things when we have the time, And we honor all conditions.

Embargo policy

I honor all embargoes but I will not sign any non disclosure agreements.

All journalistic principles apply--I am still a journalist!

Sometimes I am introduced as a "former journalist." No, I am a "former Financial Times" journalist.

I still work as a journalist and adhere and practice all the expected practices of being a journalist. Please do not let the "blog" part confuse you. Think of me as a journalist blogger, the journalist term comes first and last :-)

I love this blogging platform because I can express my writing in many ways--ranging from straightforward business news reporting and analysis, as in the FT, to sometimes more experimental posts (my long-time readers will know what I mean :-)

Events/Speaking engagements

I have been doing a lot of speaking at various conferences and also to internal audiences within tech and PR companies on the new media technologies. I just recently agreed to book my speaking engagements through the non-profit think tank the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR).

I'm a founding fellow of the SNCR non-profit, which was established by Jen McClure

Executive Director, and it has a stellar list of the best minds working in this new communications/new media sector, imho.

We have lofty goals at SNCR. We want to take what we are learning about the new media technologies and how best to use them--and offer that knowledge for free to non-profits and schools. We will have fund raisers and we will also generate money for the the non-profit through our work and services.

Media Consulting/Strategy consulting

I'm happy to share what I've learned pro bono with non-profits and social enterprises and schools.

I've avoided commercial consulting but through my involvement with SNCR, I can offer media technology/strategy consulting-and it helps fund SNCR work and research.

What I offer is good practices in the new communications/new media world. How do organizations tell truthful, compelling stories? How do organizations deal with bloggers? How has news dissemination changed? Who in your organization should *not* be blogging, etc, etc. And I answer many other questions too--all very typical across companies.

At SNCR we also have a geek squad to help organizations set up internal and external media communications platforms. We also have legal experts and we have the legal stuff sorted out--we tell you what you can and cannot do/say as a public or private company.

And we have people at SNCR that will put together boot camps/training workshops within your organizations--to teach your people how to use wikis, blogging and all the other blogerific media technologies out there.

And we have plenty of experts on podcasting, vidcasting--and on the academic side of things. For any of the above please contact Jen McClure: jmcclure at sncr.org. Or on 650-331-0083.