User:Chrisabraham
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Chris Abraham (March 8, 1970 – sometimes called Abey Baby and nicknamed Iz, the Big Doofus, and the Young King, is a pioneer in online social networks and publishing with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing.
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[edit] Early Life
Chris was born in Saint Mary's Medical Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Barbara and Bob, on March 8, 1970. Soon after being born, Barbara and Bob Abraham moved Chris over to Murray Hill, NY, on the Island of Manhattan. By the time Chris was six, his parents decided they wanted to upgrade their island from being on the Hudson River to being on the Pacific Ocean and they move to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1976.
Chris attended Aliamanu Elementary School from kindergarten through sixth grade and then Saint Louis School from seventh grade through graduation. After graduating Saint Louis, Chris bolted to Washington, DC, where he attended GWU.
As a young man just out of college in the early 1990's, Chris discovered newly-emerging web publishing as a way to showcase his writing. In those early days, the unformed structures of the internet required every would-be web author to be a quick-learning hacker just to be able to put his work online. Soon, English major Chris was as much techie geek as well-read, bookish, weltschmerzen-suffering young writer.
[edit] Hobbies
Chris ran memes.org for over five years and coined the Wikipedia terms mediasphere, memespace, and memesphere. Chris is an avid rower and houses a Hudson Heavyweight racing single shell at a local Washington boathouse.
[edit] Passions
Chris attends Renaissance Weekend, rows a single rowing scull, and studies memetics for fun. Chris is a voracious reader and a media whore.
[edit] Early Career
And since technologist positions were paying extraordinarily well, while creative writing was, and remains, a one-way ticket to the welfare roles, Chris sold out and became a corporate tech so he could afford his Mercedes, his Nikon, and his piles and piles of Velvia slide film.
[edit] Professional Life
Chris is founding partner of Abraham and Harrison. Just previous to launching is own firm, Chris got canned as a PR Exec at Edelman within 90-days is working on the Online Advocacy team in Public Affairs in Washington, DC. Go figure. Well, considering all the allegations against Edelman of flogging, astroturfing, and blogger bribery, Chris is probably better off. Chris is a self-professed media whore and "blog expert." Chris lives and works in Washington, DC, and maintains the blog Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message. Chris also teaching blogging workshops for the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and maintains a blog for the class, The Applied Blogging Workshop.
[edit] Personal Life
Chris is still an eligible bachelor and looking for the right women to support his blogging habit.
[edit] Underworld Connections
The international consulting firm Haft, Harrison & Wolfson has also taken him on as a partner, but there are suspicions that they are just exploiting him for his underworld connections.
[edit] Smart Mobs Bio
Chris Abraham is a strategiest and technologist at New Media Strategies. He has been a technologist for over a decade, focusing on online education, virtual community building, web publishing, and blogging. Chris is especially interested in memetics and emergence and how they direct culture. Chris was found in the company of a brood of Unicorns and is believed to have been bred for his skills in magic.
