Eric Sommer

CopyWriter, University teacher, Journalist, Social theorist, Software developer

Haidian District, Beijing, China

About

I'm a marketing writer specializing in creating powerful sales funnels for Hi tech, Startup, and school accounts. My current clients include Chinese Redstone conpany, whose Fota technology supports the 550 million mobile phone users including those of China Mobile, the largest mobile phone network in the world. I'm also a former university teacher, software developer, organizer of workers and poor people, business person, and social science theorist, originally from Canada. I also function as an international journalist writing on social, political, cultural, and IT subjects in media such a Rt (Russia Today Global News Service); ChinaDaily (China's leading English language newspaper with 15 million daily readers); Canadian Global Research (leading alternative news source), Russia Today Global news service, and other venues. www.ericsommer.contently.com I also have plans for a current software project which will function as a powerful web and mobile based personal knowledge manager which will be several times as effective as apps like Evernote and OneNote in allowing you to capture, organize, re-orgranize, and share all of your information. I bring to this project 30 years of background and experience in the personal knowledge management area, including having served for 7 years as the CEO, conceptualizer and designer of the personal knowledge management program ADM: The Knowledge. My hometown is Beijing China, where I have taught in universities like the Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate university, Sinopec Management institute, and Second Language University. I am strongly integrated into Chinese culture, and was previously married to a Chinese woman.

Experience

  • Copy Writer, Internatinal Journalist, researcher, former University Instructor, and IT developer at CopyWorks Communications
    Jan 2010 - Present · 16 yrs 7 mos

  • Regular Contributor of articles on Social, Political, and Cultural Subjects at ChinaDaily; RT; Canadian Global Research; and others
    May 2007 - Present · 19 yrs 3 mos

    I'm a regular Contributor of articles on Social, Political, and Cultural Subjects to ChinaDaily, China's leading English language newspaper with 10 million or so daily readers; RT, one of the worlds' most popular news and news video service - most viewed news videos in Youtube and connected to one-in-four TV sets worldwide; Canadian Global Research, a source of powerful alternative research and news coverage; and other media. Links to some of my articles can be found here: www.ericsommer.contently.com

  • Business Development Manager at 8Sdian
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Developed many of the business models and marketing outreach concepts for Beijings first professional mobile car maintenance service, A unique hybrid-IT/realworld company delivering regularly needed car maintenance services throughout the Beijing area. www.8sdian.com

  • Instructor at Chinese Academy of Science Graduate School
    Sep 2007 - Sep 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Academic writing skills to prepare science student MA and Phd candidates to write their thesis. Also taught U.S. 20th Century history and oral English.

  • Instructor at International Studies Univesity
    Sep 2006 - Sep 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Taught essay writing skills to MA candidates and oral English to undergraduates here for 14 hours per week while building ADM version 4.0. .