Electric
Words is my "brand identity", me being Bob Emmerson,
an English national living in the Netherlands. I have a
degree in electronic engineering and mathematics from London
University and now work as an all-round freelance writer,
focusing on Information and Communications Technology. I
have written articles and columns for a number of international
publications, most of which are (sadly) no longer with us,
e.g. Byte: an IT bible. Right now I am writing for Comms
Business and VON Magazine, but the majority of my income
comes from white papers. Clients in this area include Alcatel,
Cisco, Genesys, Microsoft, Mitel, Nokia Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks,
Owera, Picsel and Siemens.
In former lives I was a designer of digital
control systems, a journalist, and then a copywriter. For
a number of years I ran my own advertising/pr agency in
Brussels: clients included ITT Europe, Philips, Intel and
The Financial Times. This experience means that I can also
work as a Marketing Communications consultant. In addition
to creating numerous sales brochures/leaflets/presentations
and writing press releases and press kits, I have produced
three market reports for the Financial Times and two for
VON Publishing. I am also the European Editor of VON Magazine
and co-author of two books, the first is titled "21st Century Communications",
the second which was co-authored with Jeff Pulver is "Run your Organization in Real Time".
The first book is out of print but there is a free download of the pdf file.
