Alexandra Samuel is a technology speaker and writer. She is the author of Work Smarter with Social Media: A Guide to Managing Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Your Email (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015) and a contributor to the HBR book and toolkit, Getting the Right Work Done.

Alex's tech writing has appeared regularly in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Harvard Business Review and The Christian Science Monitor’s Passcode, Oprah.com and JSTOR Daily. She is the former VP of Social Media for customer intelligence software company Vision Critical, past director of The Social & Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, and co-founded Social Signal, one of the world’s first social media agencies. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.