Jos

Finland

Husband, father, Clog, Fimmigrant, journalist, consultant, coach, founder of Cluetail Ltd. Brokering facts and fantasy between the Finnish-, Dutch- and English-speaking worlds.

Jos is a media geek with an aptitude for coaching, knowledge transfer and collaboration.

As a journalist with an international perspective on things, Jos specializes in news features from “post-Nokia” Finland. Think the economy, business and technology, mobile and internet, start-ups and growth industries, gaming, cleantech, design, culture, education, travel.

Trained in journalism and social sciences, he has been professionally engaged in developing and managing Internet- and intranet-based media concepts since the early 1990s.

After six years at Nokia’s corporate communications team, he founded Cluetail Ltd. in 2009, a consultancy helping organizations and individuals extract more value from their conversations and interactions through social media.

Jos coaches on personal and professional development. He consults on strategies, concepts and implementations for the New Internet.

In March 2011, Jos was selected as a finalist to the first-ever 'Uutisraivaaja' (‘Newsplorer’) innovation contest by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, for his idea of a hyper-personalized news recommendation engine based on online social gestures.

See more at:

http://josschuurmans.com/about/