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Penny Power OBE (born 1964) is a British author and speaker.

In 1998, she founded Ecademy with her husband Thomas Power and CEO Glenn Watkins with the aim of helping business people achieve success through online tools, community and friendship.[1][2][3] [4] As of May 2011, shortly before its demise, the Ecademy community had 3011 paying members, although Power claims a membership of 650,000.[citation needed] In 2012, Ecademy was acquired by SunZu, owned by Lyndon Wood.[5]

Penny Power published a book in August 2009, titled Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me: What Online Social Networking Means for You and Your Business.[6]

She subsequently published Business is Personal.[7]

Honours

Power was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entrepreneurship in social and digital development.[8][9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ ‘Ecademy’s new ground’. Penny Power, 10 July 2008, Inside knowledge, Volume 11 Issue, pp 18-21
  2. ^ ‘Power to the people’ May 2009 Institute of Internal Communication 60th anniversary book p53
  3. ^ “Interview with Penny Power, founder of Ecademy”. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal. 25 (2). Development and Learning in Organizations. 2011. doi:10.1108/dlo.2011.08125baf.001. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
  4. ^ Creozon. “PlanetTech interviews Penny Power OBE, social networking pioneer”. PlanetTech News. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  5. ^ Kennedy, John (29 April 2013). “New social network for businesses SunZu plans 1m members by end of 2013”. Silicon Republic. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  6. ^ Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me: What Online Social Networking Means for You and Your Business, Penny Power, 1 October 2009, published by Headline Book Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7553-1951-0.
  7. ^ Power, Penny. Business is Personal. Hay House.
  8. ^ “No. 60728”. The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 13.
  9. ^ “The New Year’s Honours 2014”. HM Government. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
  10. ^ “2014 New Year Honours”. Wikipedia.