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Alison Wesley

Alison Wesley is part of the consumer media relations team at Intel, responsible for the company’s consumer PR outreach in Intel’s Global Communications Group. She’s worked in communications for over 17 years, covering a variety of consumer technologies, including spending eight years at Intel Corporation in Asia pacific and the U.S. Most recently, she has focused on Intel’s efforts around innovation and how technology is changing the lives of consumers today and into the future. She also oversees the Intel Advisors program (formerly the Intel Insiders program), an award-winning program that helps Intel to gather immediate advice and better engage authentically with consumers through the networks of 10 external social media influencers and near dozen of the now three-year-old program’s alumni. These Advisors make up some of the most popular and followed consumer-targeted social media names today.
RECENT BLOG POSTS

Small Actions by Women at ‘Blissdom’ Can Spark Big Change

Welcome to Blissdom sign We’re heading to Nashville this week to ask more than 700 women at BlissDom 2011 to join us in helping to save the world— one bit at a time. Created by Alli Worthington, founder of Blissful Media and one of our Intel Advisors, the BlissDom conference focuses on cultivating inspiration for women bloggers, writers, marketers... Read more >

More Than Just A Chip Company

We asked Sarah Helfgott, a college journalism student and intern in the public relations department at Intel, to join us in New York City. Below is a guest post from Sarah, recapping the event. ————————   One of the biggest misconceptions about Intel is that it’s “just a chip company.” Although the company specializes in computer hardware... Read more >

What’s on Your Wish List This Holiday Season?

According to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) 17th Annual CE Holiday Purchase Pattern Study, “consumer electronics will once again be the ‘hottest’ gifts, both to give and to receive, this holiday season.” Notebooks/laptops are at the top of U.S. consumers’ holiday wish lists, second only to peace and happiness. And when just looking at technology,... Read more >

Why Today Is A Great Day To Startup

I’m happy to provide this guest post from Intel Insider Frank Gruber.  Frank is an entrepreneur and founder of the media company @techcocktail, the startup @shinyheart, and creator of @thankfulfor & @shinylobster. Thinking this could be the year you let your entrepreneurial juices run wild? Then I think you might be on to something. I was pleased... Read more >

Hiding behind technology: Technology as a safe keeper for all your secrets

Welcome back to our series of blog posts about technology and stress. To get caught up on this series, check out the blog that started it all, “Technology and Stress – The Good, Bad & Ugly,” Margie Morris’ “Technology as Therapy,” Ken Anderson’s “Technology, The Adult Pacifier“; Kathi Kitner’s “Technology and Relationships,” and the post... Read more >

Technology and Relationships

Welcome to the fourth blog post in our series from Intel’s social scientists on the discussion of technology and stress. To become better versed on this topic, check out the first three posts from the series – our introductory post “Technology and Stress – The Good, Bad & Ugly,” Margie Morris’ “Technology as Therapy” and... Read more >

Technology, the Adult Pacifier

I hope you’re enjoying the recent discussion of technology and stress. Below is the second guest blog post written by one of Intel’s social scientists. One of Intel’s anthropologists, Ken Anderson, discusses the way that people use technology similarly to how babies use pacifiers. As I’ve mentioned in some of my previous blog posts, Intel... Read more >

Tech Spa – Relax And The City

Sarah Helfgott, a college journalism student and intern in the public relations department here at Intel, has been working with us on a project about technology and stress that Intel has been involved with. Because she’s an active blogger in her free time, we asked her to join us at an event in New York... Read more >

Technology as Therapy: A Guest Post from Margie Morris

This is the first guest blog post of a series of posts written by Intel’s social scientists. As explained in my previous post “Technology and Stress – The Good, Bad & Ugly,” we have a team of social scientists within Intel who study how people use technology. There are efforts within Intel to understand how... Read more >

Technology and Stress – The Good, Bad & Ugly

Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. Especially now that wireless Internet is so prevalent in phones and laptops, we’re often expected to answer e-mails within minutes of getting them, we’re criticized when we don’t respond to Facebook wall posts within a 24-hour time span, and leaving our mobile phones at home... Read more >