Author: Farhana Rahman

  TapTime with: Daniel Feldman, Social Media Manager of @Waze

You can tap Daniel for: Customer engagement advice, help building a fantasy football team. I’m going to tap him for Hebrew lessons.

Daniel will tap you for: Networking purposes

Where do I start talking about Daniel? He’s one of those personalities that makes look forward to getting on Twitter. When asked of his interests, Daniel responded, “I play squash, fantasy football, cook, go salsa dancing and study for an MA degree in conflict research resolution and management. I also work at Waze which is an amazing, top of the line startup. Shameless plug: For those who aren’t familiar with Waze, its a free GPS application that routes you around traffic http://www.waze.com”

Daniel landed his first position in Social Media in 2008, ‘before anyone even knew what social media was,’ while living in Israel and seeking a position as an English teacher. He originally used social media to keep in touch with his friends. As time went on, he used it to “keep up with my interests, get useful ideas that I can use at my company, as well as make connections that could serve me well in the future.”

He also likes connecting with people of positions similar to his, such as: Liz Heron (Social Media editor at New York times), Meghan Peters (community manager at Mashable) and Martin Beck (Social Media/Reader engagement at LA times). In approaching people of such influence, Daniel simply tweets them with direct questions, and comments.

Most of Daniels connections are in the U.S, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, the U.K, Hungary, and Australia. But from what I have seen, he really has ‘em all over. Feel free to reach out to him through Waze, or his personal Twitter handle.