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Blogging Systems Management Team

Richard Nacht, Founder and CEO

Richard Nacht, CEO/Founder, Blogging Systems

 

Richard Nacht is the founder and CEO of Blogging Systems Group. Richard has twenty-five years in the marketing, finance and technology development industries. Richard has focused his talents on creating e-commerce strategies aimed at producing technologies that benefit the consumer and businesses.

Richard founded one of the first online lending platforms in the late 1990s and took the operation from its original online birth to successful acquisition by a national lender in 2003. Richard then leveraged his online consumer and business to business marketing experience by founding Blogging Systems Group.

Blogging Systems is a leader in the rapidly growing social internet, social media and social networking industry by delivering a technology platform that produces a low-cost, high results tool for effective communication and collaboration internally and with the public and consumers, competitive marketing, sales, and customer relations and is used by Fortune 500 companies such as Wachovia, Toyota, Boston Scientific and others including publishers, associations and clients in other verticals. Blogging Systems was included as a Top 10 Trendsetter in the Swanepoel TRENDS Report of 2006, along with others such as Google, First American and Zillow.

Richard is also the founder of Nacht Social Media Consulting which provides solutions to the challenge of an internet which is fragmenting the delivery of media, marketing and communication. Nacht Social Media provides clients with a way to extend their online presence by providing consulting regarding the methods by which clients can increase traffic and online participation to:

  • Generate a greater sense of community by visitors, users, consumers and members

  • Increase revenue with advertising and sponsorships

  • Effectively execute sales and marketing activities for single and cross-platform sites

Among his significant successes Richard has been honored as a New Jersey Governor’s Cup for Entrepreneurial Excellence finalist and he was a member of the Inc. 500 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2003.

Richard is the author of the forthcoming Social Media and Recruiting coming from Wiley in Winter 2008 and co-author of Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition.

He is a Senior Fellow with the Society for New Communications Research, and Chairman of the SNCR Education Committee. Richard is co-chair of the Online Social Media Marketing SIG with MENG (Marketing Executive Networking Group) and is the organizer of the Third Thursday New York meetup.

Richard holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the New York Law School and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the New York University Stern School of Business and is a current doctoral candidate at the International School for Management in Paris, France.

 

Michael Favia, VP Technology and Development

Michael Favia, VP Technology and Development, Blogging SystemsMichael has over ten years in the programming, design and development fields. In the late 1990s, he acted as the senior developer for a flagship product which resulted in his employer being successfully acquired. Since 2000 he has participated in the implementation and administration of Agile Unified Process based project management systems (enterprise resource planning, client relationship management, budgeting, lead times, etc); developed standards compliant, accessible web presences to meet the marketing and operational goals of clients (dynamic, e-commerce, content managed); conducted market research, analyzed traffic patterns and conducted feasibility analyses for developing and existing projects and created, maintained or contributed to a number of open source software projects including but not limited to: PHP, mySQL, Drupal, Gallery2, Firefox, Fedora, Yum, Ubuntu, Gnome, gDesklets, and xplanet.

 

Chris Bubny, VP Operations

Chris Bubny, VP Operations, Blogging SystemsChris has over six years in the online finance and technology industries. Chris focuses his time on implementing best practices that benefit the social networking community.

Chris was a member of one of the first successful online lending platforms and helped build the company into a billion dollar producer using the internet as its primary method of customer acquisition, contact and customer service. This time enabled Chris to become well versed in the need to effectively merge superior customer service with internet technology tools.

Chris has a unique skill set that enables him to multi-channel a variety of roles which provides him with the direct responsibility of ensuring N&C client needs are fully met. In addition, Chris is the Managing Editor of the popular blog network "Realty Blogging: A Network of Blogging Evangelists Writing on Effective Real Estate Blogging, which has become the go to online destination site for real estate industry participants interested in learning how to use blogs for effective marketing.

Steve Amsden, Vice-President, Career Connections Recruiting Division

Steve Amsden, Vice-President, Career Connections Recruiting DivisionSteve oversees Blogging Systems new recruiting industry division, Career Connection. He has over 12 years of senior level experience in recruitment advertising, staffing, operations and general management.

Steve began his recruiting industry career at Monster Worldwide 2000 where he was a regional vice-president leading an enterprise level sales team. After two years at Monster Steve was promoted to the sister company, TMP Worldwide, as the District Vice-President/General Manager to run the New England Region. Steve managed a team of 40 individuals and secured a $30+ million dollar recruitment business.

After three years Steve moved to start-up company, Jobster, where he served as a member of the founding team, taking on the role as Vice-President Channel Sales and Alliances. Steve created more than 30 strategic partnerships during his tenure at Jobster.

Steve has served as both a judge and presenter at the Creative Excellence Awards in 2005 and continues to be involved in national recruiting organizations and committees.