About Helge Fahrnberger

My name is Helge and I live in Vienna, Austria. In case you want to get in touch with me click contact.
 

My professional background

 
I work as Social Software and Product Development Consultant. I can help you with your online product strategy – be it by strategy workshops, writing concepts or specifications for you or helping out as an interim manager. Rent my brain.

Companies I have done products, projects or consulting for include: sms.at, ORF, Shapeshifters (see this arcticle in BrandEins), O2 Germany, Herold, ÖAMTC, the Austrian National Tourism Board or Okto.

I am also managing partner at Toursprung where I developed Bikemap, Runmap and Maptoolkit. In case you were asking, we’re currently working on world domination – needless to say.

Back in web1.0-times I was head of product development of uboot.com, an international mobile community for teenagers and winner of the prestigous German OnlineStar Award in 2001.

Conferences and talks

Find a few slide sets of mine on Slideshare. Past talks, panels and presentations include (numerous BarCamps and):

In English:

• Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innvoation, University of Economics Vienna (Talk)
• World Blogging Forum, Bukarest (Talk)
• IST Africa, Pretoria (Talk)
• European Capital of Culture Linz09 / 80+1, Linz (Panel)
• Mobile Communities Conference, London (Talk)
• CycleSummit, Constance (Talk)
• Startup-Weekend Vienna (Panel)

 
In German:

• PR Verband Austria, Vienna (Talk)
• Voest Alpine, Linz (Talk)
• FH Wien, Vienna (Panel)
• Digital Marketing Summit, Vienna (Panel Moderation)
• Digitalks, Vienna (Talks)
• Bund Österreichischer Tourismusmanager, Gastein (Talk)
• Rumanian Culture Institute, Vienna (Panel)
• Lange Nacht der Forschung, Vienna (Talk)
• Grüne Wirtschaft, Innsbruck (Panel)
• Stadtarchäologie Wien (Talk)
• CycleSummit, Constance (Talk)
• Digiday, Vienna (Talk)
• Institute of Publicistics, University of Vienna (Talk)
• Netzwerk Humanressourcen, Linz (Talk)
• Die Grünen, Innsbruck & Vienna (Talks)
• IAB Austria, Vienna (Panel)

Network – folks I enjoy working with

 
A few companies and people that I enjoy working with from time to time include Knallgrau, Die Socialisten, Digitalks, Kodama, MMC, Medienwirtschaft, Hannes Treichl and of course the BarCamp ecosystem.

Helge elsewhere

About this site

 
In one way or the other I’ve been blogging since late 1999 and on different domains and software platforms. This site is my notebook, public voice (more or less frequent rants and raves) and technological playground. Most of my posts are in German meanwhile, that’s the way it is, hey I’m Austrian after all.

This site was made with the help of Markus Schmeiduch (design) and Jürgen Koller (HTML, CSS and Wordpress). Thank you guys, you are great! (And thanks to Wordpress, of course.) The picture of me on this page was shot by the fabulous Daniel K. Gebhart.