Catherine Seo - Social Networking Strategist & Digital Diva

I LOVE technology. What future can we create today?

Catherine works with individuals and businesses to create results oriented presence and connection in the social media sphere. She is currently a Professor of Business, Management & Technology at the Graduate School of Management at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Ph.D. candidate at Fielding Graduate University in Media Psychology.

As the founder and President of Synergistic Solutions, a consulting and training company, Catherine works with organizations to creatively resolve complex communication and technology issues. Her expertise includes technology, online education, curriculum design, leadership development, change management, research and innovation, executive coaching, transition management and facilitation.

She has over 25 years of experience as a consultant, trainer and executive coach. Whether working with high-tech and manufacturing organizations or in academia, her dynamic teaching style actively engages learners with a hands-on approach. By simplifying technology and making it easily accessible, Catherine makes learning technology easy, useful and fun. She has proven success teaching in highly diverse environments to international students from numerous countries, in Asia, Middle East, Africa, South America and Europe.

 Credentials

Catherine is currently Ph.D. candidate at Fielding Graduate University in Media Psychology. She received her M.S. in Strategic Technology Management from the Graduate Center of Technology at Marlboro College, and her B.A. in Communication from Emerson College. She has also taught for MIT, Sloan School of Management: Systems Design & Management/Leaders for Manufacturing Program, Northeastern University, University of Phoenix, and the School for International Training.

My Story

I recall sitting at a keyboard for the first time in the early 1980s at the Computer Training Center to learn COBOL programming as part of a re-training effort. The first time my fingers touched the keyboard, it all made sense to me. I was lousy with a typewriter but this was easy. And programming seemed like doing cross-word puzzles. Somehow it all had to fit. That was many generations ago when there were mainframes, mini-computers, ASCII and JCL/job control language.

And then I remember in the early 1990s, the beginning of desktops and somehow knowing enough to get by and figure it out as I went along because of my COBOL programming days.

AND THEN 1997 – THE INTERNET. When I began to surf and use this amazing tool for so many things. Banking, shopping, connecting… I returned to school in 1999 for a Masters degree in Internet Strategy Management aka Strategic Technology Management and finally recall saying the words to my friend, grad school buddy and colleague Jen, “I’m a geek” and now wear the title of “geek-girl” or “digital diva” with great relish.

Now all that being said, I still approach any new technology with just a little bit of dread and hesitation. It’s all going so fast and before I can master one thing, 20 more appear. And in conversations with many of the “digital natives” I encounter I often feel overwhelmed and out-dated. A Digital Native is one who grew up in this amazing connected world – generally anyone younger than 28 years old. Isn’t that amazing – truly!

Nonetheless, one app at a time, I continue to learn and to teach how to navigate this amazingly connected and fun world and invite you to join me.

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