SocialCompany, Inc. is a social media consultancy firm based in Tokyo Japan, which has been focusing on the use of social media for socially good projects and businesses.

Hiroyasu “ichi” Ichikawa is a social media consultant focusing on the innovative use of social media for empowering social entrepreneurship through researching, writing and public speaking for Corporations, Governments, NPOs.

While Ichikawa has been working for various sectors in the past (from NGO, newspaper, software startup in Tokyo, then New York based publishing company and career / job fair marketing company, then back in Japan doing youth exchange NPO, and executive search firm), Ichikawa has been writing blog/ mail magazine on the topic of social entrepreneurship since 2000 at http://www.socialcompany.org .

After founding SocialCompany, Inc. in March 2010, Ichikawa has been more focused on the research, writing, speaking, and consulting with the topics around “Social Media for Social Good”.

【Writing】
Ichikawa has been writing a weekly column “Social Business Frotline” (http://gendai.ismedia.jp/category/socialbiz) and “Disital Curation ” (http://gendai.ismedia.jp/category/ichikawa) at Kodansha’ Gendai Business since July 2010, ,and have covered global trends of the use of “Social Media for Social Good”, such topics as education, healthcare, disaster response, NPO, CSR, cause-related marketing, etc…

【Public Speaking】
Ichikawa has spoken at organizations like,WorldBank, JICA (Japan International Corporation Agency), ACCJ(American Chamber of Commerce of Japan), Government related organization, Oncology Japan 2011, NPO conferences, etc…
*Some of the presentation slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/socialcompany

【Publication】
Translation Work: “Rules of Thumb” (http://bit.ly/HQC4o2) written by Alan M. Webber, co-founder of FastCompany magazine) into Japanese “Tamashii wo Urazuni Seikou suru” (http://bit.ly/HQCsTw) Feb/2010.

【NetSquared Tokyo】
Ichikawa is a co-founding member and president of NetSquared Tokyo ( http://www.netsquared.jp), a Tokyo based global network of professional group, NetSquared(http://www.netsquared.org) , which aims to empower socially benefit organization with the power of social media through monthly “meetups”.

【Specialties】
-Social media consultation / training/ writer / speaker (twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc with the focus on the localization among the Japanese market)

-Social entrepreneurship catalyst (has been blogging about social entrepreneurship since 2000, attended several conferences such as SOCAP – Social Capital Market Conference (2009, 2010) , Skoll World Forum(2010, 2011, 2012) , where I led a delegate-led session on “Social Media for Social Good” in 2012