About Con
A little bit about me:
Award winning Australian Digital Media strategist, political activist, host of Magpie Radio’s “Pie Cast“, economist, music nut, culture buff, fanatical Collingwood supporter…
LONG BIO (Written by someone else, I don’t generally refer to myself in the third person):
Con’s career in marketing and communications began at age 13 when he set up some of Melbourne’s first underage nightclub events at his family’s Metro Nightclub. This early experience in drawing crowds and building fan bases laid the foundations for the career he’s since forged in marketing and digital media.
Con continued to work in the music industry (for companies including Universal Music and Zomba Music) and maintained a keen interest in the developing online world. He helped set up one of Australia’s first media extranets for PolyGram in 1998 and has always been active in social media, blogging since 2003 and setting up multiple online communities.
A Collingwood supporter, Con developed an unofficial website for the AFL club in 1999 because he felt their existing site wasn’t up to scratch. He was then approached by the club to advise on improving their official site and through this, created one of Australia’s first vodcasts, and still hosts a weekly podcast for the club, “Pie Night”. During this time, Con was the Liberal candidate for the Federal Seat of Melbourne in the Election of 2001, gaining over 25,000 votes.
In 2006, Con left the entertainment industry for marketing & communications consultancy. He worked for Edelman as their country head for digital and social media, contributing to the agency’s global digital practice and designing social media training tools for clients and staff in Australia and throughout the Asia Pacific Region, and later consulted to Haystac, part of the Mitchell’s Communications Group.
Con was behind Woolworth’s Drought Action Day in 2007, for which he won a PRIA Golden Target Award for innovative use of social media, and has also worked with Coles, Foster’s, Jetstar, ANZ, Lonely Planet, Telstra, Sensis, Australia Post, 7-Eleven, Bayer and Toyota.
Con is now Digital Strategist at DDB, working within the planning department across the group, including DDB, Tribal DDB, RAPP and Mango PR.
He was an advisor on media and marketing for the Make Poverty History concert, and conceptualised and was part of the team that executed the Sound Relief concerts in Melbourne and Sydney earlier this year. Since 2002, Con has been on the board of the Federal Government’s Contemporary Music Touring Program – along with Daryl Somers, who recently brought Con on to run social media activity for the highly successful ‘Hey Hey it’s Saturday’ reunion shows.
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Can Carlton beat Collingwood this week?
YES! BY 54 points.