Renee Blodgett
As President and Founder of Blodgett Communications, Renee Blodgett offers a very personalized approach of working with her clients, their customers and the influencers that impact them. She has been providing full service corporate communications and marketing consulting for worldwide technology companies and executives for over 18 years.
Her global approach comes from living in ten countries and consulting for companies around the world. Blodgett has developed PR campaigns and launched products for companies from South Africa, Australia, Holland, Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Israel, and France.
Prior to launching Blodgett Communications, she headed up worldwide corporate communications for leading speech recognition player Dragon Systems, through to the acquisition to Lernout & Hauspie, now Nuance. Blodgett’s agency experience is extensive with posts at Cone Communications, Cudaback Strategic Communications, London-based Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and Saatchi & Saatchi Direct, Brodeur Worldwide and Porter Novelli.
Having studied and lived in Europe and Africa, Blodgett has experience working with and a unique understanding of other cultures. She received a BA in International Marketing Communications from London's CDT, receiving several distinctions on the CAM, which is nationally recognized in the Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations industry in the U.K.
She has received top national public relations honors from the London Institute of Public Relations and London Chamber of Commerce. Blodgett holds advisory board positions with B5 Media, CozmoMedia and BlogHer, the first women’s blogging conference.
She advises companies and people about social media and has appeared in newspaper articles, podcasts, blogs and books about social media and blogging, including The New Influencers by Paul Gillin and Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel. Blodgett blogs at Down The Avenue.