Wel­come, my name is ritchie pet­tauer aka datadirt.

I live in Vienna, Austria.

I am a blog­ger [in Eng­lish: blog.datadirt.net | in Ger­man: blog.datenschmutz.net], a social media con­sul­tant, a pub­lic speaker, a teacher at the Uni­ver­sity of Vienna [Depart­ment: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Stud­ies] and an online entre­pre­neur [founder of p*n*c — pettauer.net con­sult­ing and ddmg — datadirt.media.group].

I’m very pas­sion­ate all the stuff I do, which is the main rea­son why I never feel stressed out — instead, there is always a big bunch of curios­ity and a strong desire of under­stand­ing social media involved. What I love most of all about the mirac­u­lous place that we call the web 2.0 is the fact that I’m con­stantly get­ting to know and con­nect­ing with great peo­ple who I’d never have met in real life if it wasn’t for the net.

Even if you are a cul­tural pes­simist, keep in mind that each one of us is formed by the sum of his or her own expe­ri­ences. In that light I guess it is easy for you to under­stand that I’m very fond of the many pos­si­bilites the inter­net puts at our fingertipps.

Any­ways — I’m glad you vis­ited my site. Check out my blog, take a look at my lat­est video pod­cast [in Ger­man] or meet me online — all my social pro­files are listed in the right side­bar. Plus I recorded this short video intro­duc­tion so can put a face to the name datadirt: