About
Jason-Preston.com is my personal blog, and it contains a collection of articles I’ve written and links I’ve found interesting since 2005. I’ve always had an interest in technology, startups, and video games, so I’d expect to find plenty of things in those categories.
About Jason:
Jason Preston is the Vice President of Strategy and Product Development for the Parnassus Group, a Redmond-based company that produces conferences and parties around emerging technologies, and provides social media intelligence to clients and partners seeking to effectively participate in online communities.
Jason has worked with clients on shaping blogger engagement strategies, creating blogs, and understanding the business value of social media tools like Twitter and Facebook. He has spoken at numerous local and national conferences including the Web Community Forum, The Tweet House, and Ignite Seattle. He has written about social media and emerging technologies in Crosscut and Seattle Business Magazine.
In his spare time, Jason maintains a number of side-projects, the most interesting of which is Potluk, a web service that allows users to create their own personal “Hacker News” site – a private or public collection of links that group members can vote and comment on.
He graduated from Occidental College in 2007 with a Bachelor’s degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs, which is a fancy way of saying “Economics, Business, Politics, and Philosophy.”
Shorter Bio
Jason Preston is the Vice President of Strategy and Product Development at the Parnassus Group, a social media intelligence and events production company based in Redmond. Jason has spoken at numerous local and national conferences including the Web Community Forum, The Tweet House, and Ignite Seattle. He has written about social media and emerging technologies in Crosscut and Seattle Business Magazine.
In his spare time, Jason maintains a number of side-projects, the most interesting of which is Potluk, a web service that allows users to create their own personal “Hacker News” site – a private or public collection of links that group members can vote and comment on.
Speaking
Jason Preston is an accomplished public speaker and a recognized expert in social media living in Seattle, washington with his wife Mónica Guzmán Preston.
He has presented for the Tweet House, the Web Community Forum, the Redmond Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, SCORE, the Social Networking for Business Conference, Ignite Seattle, 140 | The Twitter Conference, and others.
If you’re interested in having Jason speak at your event, please contact him via e-mail.
Video of Jason’s work:
- The Twitter Conference: The Comedy Session – Being Funny, In Short
- Ignite Seattle: How to Say Anything in 140 Characters or Less
- Seattle Chamber: Buzz Monitoring in Social Media
Other fun stuff
- It was great fun to join the GeekWire podcast as a guest alongside @moniguzman in early June. We chatted about Twitter, mostly, and living the digital life at home.