About Me

| this is Håkan Söderbom

Welcome! This is Håkan Söderbom’s home on the web!

Here you will learn who I am and what I do, both at work and through my hobbies.

The lion share of my career has been focused on business development; building partnerships and alliances. More recently I have acted as a Conversation Starter helping organizations of all sizes build their online presence through Social Media Marketing.

When I recently was invited to join DataCore Software as the Director of Alliances it was an opportunity to assemble the best successes of my career and go make some great contribution to a great company! I couldn’t have been happier.

This means that my role as a Conversation Starter evolves from helping many companies with their online presence and reputation management, to focusing on one segment (Cloud Computing) while building relationships and alliances in the hardware and software industry. That said, I envision that my skills as a Conversation Starter will be beneficial in my new role.

I bring a unique combination of business acumen and technology insight. Key to my success include an ability to listen, experience in formulating strategies, and getting to results by bringing out the best in others.

I firmly believe that partnerships and collaboration, whether within an organization or between companies, are cornerstones for success. Through numerous projects I have created alliances in areas of sales, marketing (on-line, brand, PR, campaigns,…), and software development.

Can I help you? Let’s connect and start a conversation!

Photography

| picture expressions
This started as my Project 365, an effort to post one picture every day for a year. It turns out to be quite difficult to keep up with so many projects calling for attention at the same time and I am now seeing this photo-blog as a longer term project…

These images have been taken from around the world. Some illustrate my role as a part-time photographer, some are from business travels, but most are from adventures. A few are even by Kay (i.e. that was the only way to fit me into the frame).

This is not a portfolio!

Click on the image to the right to explore these expressions first hand!

A photoblog says more than a thousand blogs

Off-duty-blog

| stories
The off-duty-blog is what it says, writings, rantings, and stories – mostly about motorcycles but also adventures and fun from around Seattle and around the world.

Click on the image to the right to explore it first hand!

Social

| connections happen here

What would a social media expert be without a social presence? Here are the windows to Håkan’s online presence and the most common tools:

 

LinkedIn

Håkan Söderbom’s professional profile

Twitter

Håkan’s main Twitter account (yes he has more than one, going on five or six…)

Slideshare.net

Presentations I am giving, mainly on social media and online presence.

YouTube

Warning! – the deadbeat video of Håkan riding a motorcycle back and forth, with over 60k views, can only be understood by other motorcyclists.

FourSquare

Location based check-in. See where I am, meet me where I go!

Photo blog RSS feed

Subscribe for one picture per day.

Off-duty blog feed

Subscribe for (mostly) motorcycle adventures.

Facebook

Friends and family only! Ok, the occasional colleague also, but really focused on non-business stuff!

Cloud

| with both feet on the ground

My business time is spent connecting people and technology as the Director of Alliances at DataCore Software.

I will soon have a separate component here telling more about my cloud efforts. Stay tuned!

It is taking shape here: http://hakansoderbom.com/cloudblog/