Ritchie Pettauer is a blogger, online consultant and teacher at the University of Vienna.
Ritchie Pettauer studied science of communication in Vienna and started running his first online community (medianexus.net, archived in the Austrian National Library) in 1996.
After finishing his thesis on media theory, he worked at various online advertising agencies until he founded p*n*c (pettauer.net consulting) in 2002.
Four years ago, he started his blog datenschmutz (http://blog.datenschmutz.net, English blog: http://blog.datadirt.net) which focuses on online marketing and technology. Ritchie Pettauer specializes in social media marketing, his present and past customers include SevenOne Media, Swarovski, Red Bull, ATV (Austria television) and Erste Group.
He is also a lecturer at the University Vienna and a public speaker with a profound interest in the fundamental change brought to our society by the internet.
