Rudy Nadler-Nir

MarkComm Manager, Korbitec

Marketing manager at Korbitec Systems, Rudy Nadler-Nir has been actively involved in the electronic industry - and the interactive community for almost 20 years. He was General Manager for Service Provider giant Internet Africa as well as a founding member of iafrica.com - Africa’s largest Web Portal. Rudy was also Strategic Director at OgilvyInteractive - the online arm of advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. A strategist-at-large and brain-for-rent, Rudy Nadler-Nir has been teaching, lecturing, speaking and writing extensively on various aspects of electronic business management and communication. Post-Graduate Studies: Rudy has a Master's degree in Adult Learning and Global Change from the University of the Western Cape. A doctoral student at UWC, Rudy's research focuses on social networks and digital kinship systems; and specifically on the way young adults use cellphones. Specialties: 1. Communication -- social networks and digital kinship systems; and specifically on the way young adults use cellphones. 2. Generation & analysis: content, traffic, transactive conduct. 3. Learning in call-and-contact-centres, creation of effective models for the design of training and assessment programs. 4. How professional writing is likely to be affected by implied language constraints and by aggregators like RSS.