Shel Israel

Shel Israel is an author, blogger and technical consultant. He co-authored the book Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble. The book argues for the importance of the "Six Pillars of Blogging," which emphasize the ease of writing, promoting and expanding one's ideas in an online environment.¹

Fast Facts

1. Born: August 1944
2. Blog: Global Neighbourhoods
3. Earned a Master's in Public Communications from Boston University
4. Contributor and video reporter for Fast Company
5. E-mail: shelisrael1@gmail.com
6. June 24, 2008: Global Neighbourhoods hit one million total page views²
7. On the board of directors for Your Truman Show, a personal video site

Fake Shel Israel

After the release of Shel Israel's Fast Company video show, 1938 Media founder Loren Feldman began to criticize and parody Israel. Loren purchased the domain name ShelIsreal.com and set up a Wordpress blog and Twitter account to further enhance the bit.

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1. "I am generally recognized as an expert on social media. I have a great deal of experience with startups and all conceivable communications issues. I'm considered a pretty decent writer."—Shel Israel³

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