The extra brief third-person blurb (German version):
Peter Bihr is a founder and managing director of Third Wave, a consultancy for the digital world. As a digital strategist, he enjoys connecting people, insights and ideas. Before founding Third Wave, Peter worked as a freelance web strategist. Occasionally, he co-organizes events like Cognitive Cities Conference, atoms&bits Festival, Likemind Berlin and TEDxKreuzberg.
He studied Communications and Media at Freie Universität Berlin and University of Sydney and holds masters degrees from both universities. Peter has lived in Berlin, Sydney and Washington, DC. His personal blog lives at www.thewavingcat.com.
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I do web stuff
Hi, I’m Peter Bihr. I live and work in Berlin, Germany. I do web stuff.
What does that mean concretely? I develop web strategies for corporate, non-profit and political clients. I used to do this as a freelancer (list of clients), now exclusively as a partner of Third Wave.
How I work
I believe in sharing, openness, transparency and collaboration – if we work together, expect strategies built around these core principles. I distrust customer lock-in. If we work together I’ll do whatever I can to give you all the tools and knowledge so you won’t need me anymore. That way, you’re not dependent on me. Who knows, maybe later we can find a new, cool project to work on together. I think there’s no reason, need or place for tech arrogance.
(There’s also no reason good advice should be accessible only to corporations. If you run a non-profit organization working for positive social change, I’ll try to help out pro bono wherever I can. Get in touch and we’ll try to work something out.)
Let’s work together
If you’re interested in working with me, please get in touch through my company. For some details on my other projects and former employments check out my CV.
Academic Background
For my M.A. in communications and media sciences (“Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft”) at Freie Universität Berlin, I wrote a thesis titled “Die Bedeutung von Weblogs für die Arbeit von Politikjournalisten” (“The relevance of weblogs for the work of political journalists”) that examines how political journalists in Germany make use of weblogs. (In 2007, they hardly did. In the thesis, I explain why that is and why I think that blogs are useful anyway.) More information about the thesis, as well as the full text download (in German) available here. I also hold a Masters Degree in Communications and Media (MMP) from University of Sydney, Australia. (Yes, that’s two Masters. Don’t ask.)
A word about this weblog
In this weblog, I mainly jot down thoughts on the web stuff mentioned above. The blog serves partly as a sketchbook, partly as an archive for links. I hope that you’ll get something out of it, too. I have a strict disclosure policy, including my (former) clients and groups I’m affiliated with. Your feedback is highly appreciated.
Since this is the year of the disclaimers, please allow me to add that everything in this weblog expresses my personal opinion, and mine only, unless marked otherwise. It doesn’t express the opinions of my employers, clients, colleagues or partners. That said:
I’d like to hear from you – let’s talk!