About

I’m currently Director of Social Media at TSL Education.

I am a researcher with Oxford University,

Advisory board member at Startups, Social Media Events:

Startups: www.the-skein.com

Events:

Shorty Awards, Global. http://shortyawards.com (Jury Member http://rtacademy.org Other judges include: Founders of Craigslist, Flickr, FourSquare, Wikipedia, Columnist, New York Times and Celebrities Alyssa Milano, MC Hammer, Whitney Port etc)
Social Media Week, Global. http://bit.ly/ccj2if

And mentor at:
Seedcamp http://seedcamp.com/pages/mentors
University College London Advances, the SMILE http://bit.ly/zDOSj5 (Selected Mentors and Interims for London Enterprises)

Prior to TSL Education I was the Head of Social Media for the UK Ogilvy Group agencies, leading and co-ordinating the Group’s existing social media specialists, responsible for developing and helping to deliver further social media growth opportunities for the agencies and their clients.

Prior to joining Ogilvy I was responsible for the Sky’s online (which has over 1 billion monthly page impressions) social media strategy, development and marketing for each Sky site. Within a year of his appointment at Sky, I oversaw a 200% increase in engagement on Sky Portal sites. In addition, I also launched the new Times’ online commenting system and was social media advisor to a number of News Corp units, including News International, Star TV, Sky Italy and Fox TV Channels. I also advised Chelsea FC and British Forces Broadcasting Services.

I co-founded one of the first social media consultancies (rareface.com) in the UK and co-founded InfieldParking.com, a social networking site for NASCAR racing fans in commercial partnership with its most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr in the US.

Prior to Rareface and Infieldparking, I was in charge of setting up the social networking department at iConcertina, an interactive media agency and founded 2Bmates.com a music social networking site in 2004.

In my spare time I’m a mentor at Seedcamp & University College London Advances, the SMILE, adviser to start ups and charities in Social Media: Cancer Research UK, BullyingUK, OneKind and Cofacio.

Sky News Tech blogger. Founder of Mazi.TV (Featured Podcast on  iTunes UK for 5 weeks) and CozyTweetup.

Interviewed & mentioned by:
Listed in Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers (25/01/12)
Huffington Post, Twitter Power Houses
Topped The New Media age Top 100 UK Social Influence list
Brand Republic, The Wall: Ogilvy’s head of social media Maz Nadjm leaves casting doubt on agency roles
PRWEEK: Ogilvy Group Head Of Social Media Moves, Citing Agency Model Challenges
Listed in The Sunday Times Top 50 Social Media people, print edition. (12/06/11)
Brand Republic, The Wall: Ogilvy expert’s top 3 insights to Social Media Trends for 2011
Brand Republic, The Wall:  Stop dumping social media on your PR
PR Week: Twitter Guru Maz Nadjm Advises Chelsea FC In Shake Up Of Social Media Offering
Brand Republic, MediaWeek and Campaign Live: Sky debuts community features
V3.co.uk: How should startups approach big business?
PRWeek on 12/11/09: Maz Nadjm has been named the most influential comms professional on Twitter, according to a tool developed by Edelman.

Mentioned in Chris Brogan‘s best seller book Trust Agents.

Interviewed for University of Oxford: Said Business School MBA and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism papers

Author:
PDF Twitter eBook  (Co authors Duncan Bannatyne from Dragon’s Den, Noush Skaugen, Daren Forsyth etc)
PDF: Security Issues and Recommendations for Social Networking

Previously: Advisory board at European Network & Information Security and Webface Ventures.