You’ve reached my per­sonal blog, thanks for stop­ping by. In short, here’s what I keep myself busy with:

• I advise busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions on their use of social net­works and social medi­ato build com­mu­nity rela­tion­ships and brand.
• I co-founded and man­age a world­wide online med­ical com­mu­nity, VoxMed, an envi­ron­ment where health­care pro­fes­sion­als may dis­cuss clin­i­cal symp­toms, treat­ments, and prevention.
• I am the co-author of “Secur­ing The Clicks: Net­work Secu­rity in the Age of Social Media”, which pro­vides com­pa­nies with knowl­edge and actions they can put to use imme­di­ately to harden cor­po­rate net­works against social media attacks.
• I am an adjunct pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami, where I teach a semester-long course on social media. Stu­dents from the School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, includ­ing aspir­ing jour­nal­ists and PR pro­fes­sion­als, explore social media top­ics and case stud­ies involv­ing online iden­tity and expres­sion, com­mu­nity engage­ment, brand build­ing, and cit­i­zen journalism.
• Finally, I orga­nize reg­u­lar South Florida web and tech­nol­ogy mee­tups, includ­ing The Startup Forum, Bar­Camp­Mi­ami, Mobile­Mon­dayMi­ami, Social Media Club South Florida, and am a found­ing mem­ber of Refresh­Mi­ami,

An Insead MBA, I speak Eng­lish, French, Por­tuguese, Span­ish and Finnish.

You may also find me at Twit­ter (@alexdc), where I am par­tic­i­pat­ing most actively. Con­nect with me on Flickr, Face­book, Del.icio.us, Friend­Feed, Skitch, Digg, YouTube, Last.fm, Upcom­ing, Tech­no­rati, MyBlogLog, Refresh­Mi­ami, Tum­blr, Dopplr, Jaiku, Slideshare, Skype: ade­car­valho, or Netvibes.

–Alex de Carvalho

Pro­fes­sional Bio (click on photo for high-res version):

Alex devel­ops social media ini­tia­tives and net­works from busi­ness plan­ning to launch. He co-founded and runs a world­wide com­mu­nity for physi­cians, VoxMed. He is the co-author of “Secur­ing The Clicks: Net­work Secu­rity in the Age of Social Media”. A Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami, School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Alex teaches a course on social media. Based in Miami, Florida, he orga­nizes The Startup Forum, Social Media Club, Bar­Camp, and Mobile Mon­day mee­tups and con­fer­ences for South Florida new media pro­fes­sion­als, and is a found­ing mem­ber of Refresh­Mi­ami. Alex obtained an MBA from Insead in Fontainebleau, France, and speaks Eng­lish, French, Por­tuguese, Span­ish and Finnish.

Pre­vi­ously, Alex directed busi­ness devel­op­ment efforts at online media and mobile con­tent com­pa­nies and co-founded a lead­ing Euro­pean e-mail mar­ket­ing provider. Prior to that, he advised blue-chip com­pa­nies on strat­egy and orga­ni­za­tion, while at a major consultancy.

You may find Alex on Twit­ter (@alexdc), where he is par­tic­i­pat­ing most actively.