Enabling Mobile Ecosystem Services

My name is Rudy De Waele, I am Belgian, living and working in Barcelona, Spain. I am currently working as a mobile ecosystem services strategist for global clients. I speak and write fluently Dutch, English, French and Spanish.

Professionally one could desribe me a creative, visionary, thoughtful and self-motivated strategist with excellent inter-personal and communication skills in several languages, and technology platform experience across the Internet, Mobile Internet and Wireless Media. I have worked on projects as diverse as R&D, competitive intelligence analysis, digital concept, think-tank, content and event development, mobile and digital music distribution, communities and social network analysis and development, and content integration of wiki's, blogs, moblogs and RSS feed technologies.

Well-connected among key players in the digital media distribution and global mobile value chain players, I’m passionate for the new and the innovative and not afraid of mixing the unmixable.

I am assisting companies entering the mobile market space; I work with companies in the wireless, new media and IT areas where I assist them with identifying business models, strategic alliances, PR & networking, funding opportunities and competitive intelligence to help these companies commercialize their technologies in the global market.

My specialities and interests include:

Strategic planning, business development, market research, branding, enabling mobile services ecosystem, user-generated content, mobile 2.0, networking, mobile web, mobile marketing, mobilizing music, usability, user-experience, think-tank, events, digital music distribution, location-based services (lbs), mobile social media, blogs, moblogs, mososo, collaborative systems, mobile communities.

You can read my blog m-trends.org on Mobile Media Trends and Lifestyle.

I am also the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona.

Some of my most quoted posts:

About context and the mobile web (gotomobile.com)
Connecting Cultures through Music (Vodafone Receiver #16)
Understanding Mobile 2.0 (Read/WriteWeb)