Claude Malaison
Content and SEO strategist
Because knowledge also means knowing that once you’ve arrived, you have to come back, and that only half the work is done!
Claude Malaison studied journalism and information at Université Laval. He started out his career as a journalist with Le Progrès-Dimanche and Le Quotidien de Chicoutimi. A position he held for seven years.
From 1999 to 2005, he founded and co-organized the Intracom international conference. The first international conference on intranets. Then, from 2006 to 2012, he was Programming Directror for the webcom-Montréal international conference. As well as for the webcom-Québec and Boule de Cristal conferences.
At the webcom-Montréal conference in November 2011, Claude Malaison was awarded the Prix Cartier.
This award recognizes his exceptional contribution to the advancement of new information and communications technologies (NICT), as well as his promotion of the cause of a strong digital Quebec. The award also recognizes the exceptional influence and leadership this individual has exercised within his community.
It was with this in mind that he joined the nascent Open Democracy collective and, in April 2012, took part in the first Gouvcamp-aris with a Quebec delegation. He is also one of the initiators of the 13 Étonnés group.
From 2006 to 2014, he was president of ÉmergenceWeb, advising a number of corporate clients in Quebec and France on the integration of internal communications technologies in companies, now known as digital transformation.
He has worked with many major companies and organizations such as SAQ, Groupe Canam, Bombardier, Videotron, Cascades, RRQ, SAAQ, CSST, ACQ, FCCQ, Groupe Maurice, etc.
Since 2015 he has collaborated regularly with ExoB2B on digital business strategies for companies. Since May 2016, he has officially joined the ExoB2B team as Web strategist in charge of Exo Propulsion.
He also does training, conferences and community management for several companies and organizations.
Note: For 13 years, he also taught interactive business communications to several cohorts of students at the Université de Montréal.