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hello everyone and thanks for stopping by. i’m muhammad saleem and i want to get social.

i finished my a.b. degree in economics along with a minor in slavic languages and literature (with a focus on russian) from the university of chicago in june, ‘07. i spend most of my free time on various social bookmarking and networking sites, and writing about social media and socially driven content.

i started my writing career with the mu life, covering social media, however, after joining pronet advertising i stopped maintaining the former site and moved that content to this site. in the past, i have written for the blog herald and 901 am. more recently i have written regular guest posts for copyblogger, searchengineland, readwriteweb, problogger, mashable, freelanceswitch and techcrunch, centernetwork, pickthebrain, and bloggingexperiment. i also help run and maintain the art of manliness, a blog dedicated to rediscovering what it really means to be a man, as well as a weburbanist, webecoist, and brainz.

i have contributed to newassignment.net, which is an ongoing experiment in open source journalism, and from august 2006 to november 2008 i worked for propeller as a ‘professional social bookmarker’. most recently, i helped launch tip’d, a socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips, where i am also the community director and in charge of marketing. i headed the social media marketing division at advantage consulting services for a year and a half before starting my own company, and was recently listed as one of the top 100 most influential marketers of 2008.

as of july 2009 i’ve taken charge of social media strategy at chicago tribune media group’s chicagonow project.

please give me a call or drop me an email. let me know if i can do something to help you achieve your goals.