Craig Agranoff is an award winning CBS12 Television News Tech Correspondent. He is an entrepreneur, and national Social Engagement consultant as well as a noted specialist in online reputation management and monitoring. He is the co-founder of Gripd.com. Agranoff was recently named one of the 12 people to watch in 2012 by Gulfstream Media. He has worked with many Internet startups and founded the tech blog sCommerce.com and edited Rev2.org. He was also a Tech/Social Media Correspondent in the New Times, The Palm Beach Post, InternetEvolution.com and VentureBeat.com. Currently he is a Technology news columnist for  Miami Living Magazine and The Huffington Post.

Agranoff has been featured in the Miami Herald, New Times, The Palm Beach Post, AOL Digital Cities, Slice, CenterNetworks, Thrillist, Daily Telegraph, and The Sun-Sentinel. Also has appeared on Gary Vaynerchuck’s Wine Library TV, Fox News, NBC News, Weekend Sunrise, and CBS News.

He is a frequent speaker at tech events such as Refresh, AMA, SFIMA, and New Tech Community. He was also nominated at Mashable’s Open Web Awards as a finalist for creating best Large Scale Social Network, winning best “Photo Sharing Website Category”. He recently won a Digital PR award for his work with Chevrolet.

His first book Do It Yourself Online Reputation Management was recently published and is available on Amazon. His second book Checked-In: How To Use Gowalla, Foursquare and Other Geo-Location Applications For Fun and Profit was just released as well and is available for purchase on Amazon. His third book Socially Elected is the first book to teach how to win any election using Social Media. Agranoff is currently working on his fourth book entitled “Unreal Potential” which discusses how to use augmented reality apps for business. It should be published later this year.

Additionally, in his spare time, Craig’s the Pizza Expert and founder of WorstPizza.com.