Carolyn Abram is on the User Experience team at Facebook where she focuses on all aspects of user communications, including managing the company blog, overseeing messaging projects and driving copy creation for the site. Carolyn is also co-author of the book Facebook for Dummies. She holds a bachelor¹s degree in English from Stanford University.

Son of iconic producer Lou Adler and actress Britt Ekland, Nic Adler has helmed The Roxy Theatre for nearly a decade over which he has built upon the venue’s eclectic history of music, comedy, and performance art with a forward-thinking, multi-genre aesthetic of his own. An entrepreneurial force before his 30th birthday, Nic has drawn on his experiences as a band manager, DJ, restaurant owner and everything in between to turn The Roxy into a home-away-from-home for the entertainers who perform there, while at the same time extending the club’s familial vibe into the blogosphere with an award-winning website.

Stephanie has more than 13 years of experience in online marketing. As a self-proclaimed, "Internet Geek Girl" and clear-eyed optimist, she believes in the power of the Internet to change markets...and change the world. In the course of her career, she has taken on prominent sales, marketing and business development roles with Internet powerhouses including iVillage, Barnes & Noble.com, Register.com, SpaFinder, Foxtons and Commerce360. She is an expert in online marketing, affiliate program management and web 2.0 strategies, an industry speaker for trade show and panel discussions, and has been quoted in major publications such as Crain's Business News, Realtor Magazine, Revenue and ClickZ. She blogs at: http://www.internetgeekgirl.com/and http://www.affiliate-karma.com/blog. She also twitters compulsively. Stephanie also authors "1 Woman. 1 Vote," a blog for WE Vote '08, a project of WEtv dedicated to encouraging women across the country to get involved in the upcoming Presidential Election by registering to vote and then casting their ballots this November. Before the Internet Industry came along, Stephanie worked with organizations focused on women's public policy and holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota.

Paula Berg is the Manager of Emerging Media for Southwest Airlines, the nation’s leading low-fare air carrier and the largest domestic airline in terms of Customers carried. Over the last two years, Paula has managed and developed the Company’s corporate blog, “Nuts About Southwest.” Since its’ launch in April 2006, “Nuts” has experienced tremendous success - building a community for its loyal Customer base, serving as a virtual focus group, and influencing several business decisions. In 2007, “Nuts” was named Best Blog by PR News and has been recognized in major publications ranging from Wired Magazine to The Wall Street Journal. In addition to managing the Company blog, Paula leads Southwest’s online communication and social media efforts. Prior to her work in social media, Paula was a spokesperson with emphasis on strategic communication, media relations, and reputation management. Paula also supervised on-location production for three seasons of Airline!, Southwest’s reality series for the A&E Television Network, which filmed Southwest’s daily operations in four cities. After brief stints selling beer on Phish tour and working for the Colorado and United States Senates, Paula woke up and smelled the jet fuel and began her career at Southwest Airlines in 2001. Paula is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Doyle Albee is president and New Media Practice director at Metzger Associates, a public relations and communications strategy firm in Boulder, Colorado. Metzger's New Media Practice helps clients understand and thrive in today's social media landscape, from optimizing traditional PR tactics to developing programs using new applications.

Christopher J. Alden, CEO and Chairman, Six Apart Ltd.

Chris has a rich history founding companies in the online media space. Before joining Six Apart in September 2006, he was co-founder and CEO of Rojo Networks, Inc., an Internet company dedicated to helping information consumers effectively manage dynamic content. Before founding Rojo, he was co-founder and a former CEO of Red Herring Communications, Inc., which was launched in 1993. He was awarded the Business Leadership Award from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA in 2000 and graduated from Dartmouth College.

Mike Allen founded Shopping-Bargains.com in February 1999 and currently serves as President and "Chief Executive Shopper." Mike attends the major affiliate marketing conferences, has presented at Affiliate Summit and the Performics Client Summit, and has been quoted in Revenue and Electronic Retailer. Mike serves on the LinkShare Affiliate Advisory Board, the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board and the PartnerCentric Advisory Board. He also writes at ReveNews, a blog devoted to affiliate revenue news and opinion, and the Shopping-Bargains blog. Recently Mike authored a chapter for the Military Family Money section of the book entitled Your Military Family Network: Your Connection to Military-Friendly Businesses, Resources, Benefits, Information and Advice (2008). Mike also is a regular commentator in the GeekCast.fm presented weekly RedHatBlueHat political podcast. In 2007, on behalf of Shopping-Bargains.com, Mike received the Mississippi Business Integrity Circle of Honor Award from the Better Business Bureau of Mississippi.

David is Vice President of Digital Strategies at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a public relations agency best known for Innovation Communications℠ and as the longtime agency of record for Microsoft.

Prior to joining Waggener Edstrom, David worked at the White House as Internet and E-Communciations director. In that role, he managed online communications strategy, served as a press spokesperson and lead contact for digital influentials. In addition, David was the primary owner of the White House Web site and spearheaded WhiteHouse.gov’s comprehensive redesign in March 2007.

Based in Washington, DC, David has spent the past 15 years at the intersection of government, public relations, marketing, politics and digital communications. Additional background and experience includes stints with the Republican National Committee, Washington Business Journal, C-SPAN, GovTech Solutions and the U.S. Department of Education.

David's personal blog, CapitalGig, is a forum dedicated to examining how technology is changing the way we live, work, communicate, connect, campaign and govern - particulary in a capital city.

Tac Anderson is a serial entrepreneur, born contrarian, avid blogger and a voracious reader and learner. Tac has been actively involved in "computer mediated communications" since the mid 90's and is passionate about accelerated forms of communication. He blogs regularly at www.newcommbiz.com.

Tac is HP's WW Enterprise Lead for Web, CRM and Metrics in the Imaging and Printing Group. Tac helps HP leverage Social Media internally and externally. He regularly works across multiple segment teams such as, New Business Development, PR/AR, IT, Current Business Management, Channel Partner teams as well as working with all of the regional marketing teams.

As part of Walmart's new Emerging Media Team, John Andrews is responsible for building deeper engagement with consumers. This includes leveraging technology to make shopping easier, faster, friendlier and a better overall experience. He brings to this position over 12 years of various CPG brand management roles and consumer marketing experience. Mr. Andrews lives in Fayetteville, AR with wife Mary Shannon and daughter Mary Catherine.

James Andrews, Vice President, Ketchum Interactive|Founder, TheKeyinfluencer.com|Expert Blogger, FastCompany.com

James Andrews is the Vice President, Director at Ketchum Interactive specializing in the creation of online media/blogger strategy, web/application development, and content production. Ketchum Interactive clients include FedEx, Monster.com, Weight Watchers, Geek Squad, Wendy’s and Nokia. Andrews is based in Atlanta and manages a team of developers, designers and strategists based at Ketchum South.

Andrews has been working in the area of interactive/new media and non-traditional marketing for 15 years holding senior titles at Columbia Records, Ecko Unlimited and Isobar/Carat. His experience with brands such as Current TV, Sprite, Vibe Magazine and Proctor & Gamble places him in a unique category of executives that understand the convergence of both new media, content and digital lifestyle.

James blogs at Fastcompany.com as an Expert Blogger. He also maintains a blog at www.thekeyinfluencer.com where he covers the “business of pop culture” via news and interviews that span technology, new media, music business and youth/urban culture.

James Andrews attended UCLA, grew up in Silicon Valley, and lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children. He is an active speaker globally and is frequently quoted on the subjects of digital media, entertainment and innovative branding/marketing approaches.

Mr. John Donovan is a retired soldier, the son of a retired soldier, and the grandson of a soldier of the Great War, and can trace a martial lineage back to a member of Roger's Rangers. He views himself as the least distinguished of the lot, and his ribbon rack reflects that. Like his father and grandfather, he served the guns of the Field Artillery. He also dabbled in Operations and was one of the first Simulations Operations officers to be named in that career field. In addition, he has a brief as a WMD response planner, and has worked as a military historian. He's classic middle class, with a Master's that he paid for, but doesn't use.

Since he hung up the tye-dyed green clothing, he has worked as an analyst for a middling-sized defense contractor, doing mostly simulation development, management, and of late, analytical work. He raised the ramparts of Castle Argghhh! in September of 2003, as a place to explain what the media could not or would not (or when they did, badly), as well as to provide a forum to show that people who happened to own a whole lot of firearms weren't necessarily menaces to society, waiting to suddenly burst forth in a roseate fire of mayhem and malice.

He blogs things military, 2nd Amendment, and politics, and is prone to posting bad jokes now and then. When he's not being a gadfly to DoD about getting their story out, he is a gentleman farmer. He is married to a fellow blogger, has one son, eight cats, two dogs, two horses, five goats, and an uncounted number of chickens and guinea fowl, plus 7 horses a-boarding. All resident on the 80 acre motte and bailey in northeast Kansas, where he and his wife sit in the hot tub after putting up the hay and wave at the blue-bloods flying overhead as they travel from coast to coast marveling at the bitter people clinging to bibles and guns below them.

All that clinging is a challenge, since we also like big margaritas (rocks and salt, please) and have to keep at least one hand free for those.

Award-winning blogger Chris Baggott has been a leader in marketing for more than 20 years. Named by BtoB Magazine as a "Who's Who in B-To-B," Chris’ blog was also voted "Best Online Marketing Blog" by MarketingSherpa readers and "Best of the Web" by Forbes.

A marketing futurist and voice for blogging, search engine optimization and email best practices, Chris has been quoted in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc. and ADWEEK.

Chris is a co-founder of ExactTarget and recently launched his latest venture Compendium Blogware, which focuses on organizational blogging and its role in search engine optimization. As a long-time blogger, he is a firm believer and witness to what goals blogging can help a company accomplish, especially as it relates to achieving high search engine rankings.

Finally, Chris is author of a book from Wiley: Email Marketing By The Numbers. He is also one of the featured marketers in the new book from Wiley: Online Marketing Heroes: Interviews with 25 Successful Online Marketing Gurus.

Micah – who upon his original introduction to the Lijit team was described as “scary” and “tattooed” – is a 14-year veteran of the Marketing and Advertising space. He parlayed his love for those functions and desire into creating his own search marketing agency, Current Wisdom, which he sold in January 2007. Armed with Kyle, the trusty Robotic Dinosaur, Micah travels the planet in search of strategic alliances and new business development opportunities that drive revenue for Lijit and value for our users. Micah writes about his philosophy of succeeding through failure on his blog Learn To Duck at [learntoduck.com].

La Shawn Barber is a freelance writer, blogger, and blog consultant. Her features, essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Christian Research Journal, Christianity Today, Today’s Christian Woman, Beliefnet.com, Townhall.com, National Review Online, BlogCritics.org and other publications. La Shawn has appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” BBC, MSNBC, C-SPAN and several national talk-radio programs, including National Public Radio, Michael Savage’s “The Savage Nation,” Bill O’Reilly’s “The Radio Factor,” and “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” Her political blog has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, and in the Washington Post.

Austin Bay writes both novels and non-fiction. Bay's A Quick and Dirty Guide to War: Fourth Edition (an assessment of current and potential armed conflicts, co-authored with James Dunnigan) will be published in October 2008 by Paladin Press. His third novel, The Wrong Side of Brightness, was published by Putnam/Jove in 2003. Austin is currently working on his fourth novel.

Bay writes a national security column for Creators Syndicate. His commentaries run on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He has appeared as a guest analyst on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and ABC News Nightline.

Bay, who has had two commercial wargames published, served for four years as a consultant in wargaming at the Pentagon. He holds the rank of Colonel (Armor) in the U.S. Army Reserve. In 1999 Bay served as deputy commander of a Hurricane Mitch recovery operation in Guatemala.

Bay is now retired from the US Army Reserve, but was recalled to active duty and served in Iraq in 2004.

Bay has a B.A. from Rice University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He currently teaches for The University of Texas' Plan II Undergraduate Honors Program.

On the web his work appears at austinbay.net, creators.com, http://austinbay.thearenausa.com, pajamasmedia.com, and strategypage.com .

Jack has worked as an NFL Agent for over two decades negotiating contracts for players such as Al Harris, Eric Steinbach and Kelly Gregg. In addition, Jack is the Vice President of Development and a writer for the National Football Post.

Damon Berger joined Revision3 as Director of Business Development in January 2008, where he oversees the company’s distribution and promotion strategies. In June 2008, Damon assumed responsibility for the creative programming across the Revision3 network. Damon has spent his entire career trying to narrow the divide between traditional storytelling and digital platforms. Prior to Revision3, Damon helped to launch the episodic short form digital studio for The Walt Disney Co., Stage 9, where he was the head of creative development. Multi-talented in the offline world, he can scream at and for Boston sports teams at the same time.

Jay Berkowitz is a senior online marketing professional with over twenty years of marketing experience. He has managed marketing departments for Fortune 500 brands: Coca-Cola, Sprint and McDonald's Restaurants, and has developed online and offline strategies for AT&T and leading health and fitness website eDiets.com.

Mr. Berkowitz is the author of The Ten Golden Rules of Online Marketing Workbook http://www.TenGoldenRules.com/order-book , the Founder and CEO of www.TenGoldenRules.com, a strategic online marketing consulting business based in Boca Raton, Florida, and the host of the Ten Golden Rules of Internet Marketing Podcast http://podcast.tengoldenrules.com .

Mr. Berkowitz is a popular internet marketing presenter at conferences and events such as Ad-Tech, Affiliate Summit, Webmaster World, The Direct Marketing Association, The American Marketing Association and The CEO Executive Forum. He is the Research Co-Chairman for SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, a Founding Board Member of The South Florida Interactive Marketing Association a Past President of the South Florida Chapter of The American Marketing Association, the Gold Medal winner at the Association of Women in Communications PR Olympics and the recipient of two SOFIE Award nominations.

David Berkowitz is Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy for 360i, a leading independent digital marketing agency that has been named the "2007 Search Agency of the Year" by OMMA magazine and "One of the Hottest Independent Digital Agencies Around" by Advertising Age. At 360i, David helps leading brands in media & entertainment, retail, and other verticals leverage marketing opportunities at the nexus of search engine marketing and social media. Additionally, every Tuesday, he pens a column for MediaPost and posts extensively on his own blog MarketersStudio.com, an Ad Age Power 150 media & marketing blog.

Jeffrey Berman's first spec script was purchased by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard at Imagine Films. Since then he has written scripts for Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures and The Walt Disney Studio, as well as several independent film companies. In the television market, Berman has written and sold several MOWs including The J.K Rowling bio-pic for NBC television and The Last Rainmaker for Hallmark. Recently, Berman co-founded UnitedHollywood.com and was producer/co-host of UnitedHollywood Live. He also created and hosts, The Write Environment, a compelling series of one-on-one interview with some of today's most prolific writers. He ran the Pencils for Media Moguls campaign during the strike; read more here http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/jeff-berman/

a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter, is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Iowa, where he specializes in investigative reporting. He recently completed a stint as coordinator of the basic journalistic reporting program and taught a section in it for four years. His book, Watchdog Journalism: The Art of Investigative Reporting [Oxford University Press], is scheduled for release July 2008.

Before entering academia in 2003, Berry was a journalist for 33 years, having worked last at the Los Angeles Times. While at The Orlando Sentinel, he and a colleague won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He has won numerous other honors for investigative and daily reporting, including the Associated Press Newspaper Executive Council Award for public service; the Benjamin Fine award for education reporting; the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Times Award, one of its Pulitzer nominations and its Editor and Publisher Prize; Society of Professional Journalists Award [Atlanta Chapter]; and others. His projects have examined race relations, the criminal justice system, police abuse of power, school district merger, medical malpractice, stock-car racing safety, guns, government and illegal drugs. More recently he has published “Reclaiming Objectivity” and “CBS News Lets the Pentagon Taint its News Process” in Nieman Reports.

He holds an M.A. in American history from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Sean Besser is a new business development expert with extensive experience creating and driving strategic initiatives in the convergence of digital and sports/entertainment industries. Sean brings to Prolebrity more than 12 years of experience in the delivery of entertainment and related services, including work at The DISH Network, TiVo, Fox Sports and NBC Sports. Most recently he led Movielink's corporate strategy and business development activities to drive consumer adoption of video downloading on the Internet. Sean holds an M.B.A. from the Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and both a J.D. and B.A. from the University of Southern California.

Rohit Bhargava SVP, Digital Strategy & Marketing | Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence Author, Personality Not Included Blogger, Influential Marketing Blog

Rohit is a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy and author of the award winning new marketing book Personality Not Included, a guide for companies on how to use their personality to stand out. He also publishes the Influential Marketing blog, which is currently ranked among the top 50 marketing blogs in the world, and is often featured as an expert in global media including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and MarketingChina. In addition to leading marketing strategy for some of Ogilvy's largest clients, Rohit is also a frequent industry keynote speaker at Digital, Marketing and Public Relations events around the world with upcoming appearances in Singapore, London and Kiev.

Personality Not Included is his first book and is published internationally by McGraw-Hill. The book has received significant early praise and features a forward by bestselling author and entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki. Rohit is married and lives in Washington DC with his wife and two young sons, Rohan and Jaiden.

Jason Billingsley is a Co-founder & VP Innovation at Elastic Path Software where is responsible for exploring new ecommerce technologies and methods for online retail. Jason has authored industry research such as "The Ecommerce Checkout Report", hosts a monthly ecommerce webinar series, and oversees the most subscribed ecommerce blog in the world - Get Elastic. He is a regular speaker at retail industry events such as Shop.org, Online Market World, and eTail. An online marketer for well over a decade, Jason has been quoted in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, BtoB Magazine, Apparel magazine, and Multi-Channel Merchant.

Executive Vice President, Digital Strategic Services, Nielsen Online Co-Founder, Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Pete Blackshaw is a recognized expert in interactive marketing, word of mouth, and consumer understanding, who coined the term consumer-generated media. He presently serves as Executive Vice President, Digital Strategic Services at Nielsen Online, a recently formed division of The Nielsen Company that includes the Nielsen//NetRatings and Nielsen BuzzMetrics businesses. Previously, Pete served as Chief Marketing Officer of Nielsen BuzzMetrics. Pete is a 2004 co-founder of the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association, one of the fastest growing industry groups in advertising and marketing circles, and he presently authors a bi-weekly column on digital marketing strategy targeted to CMOs for ClickZ network. Pete is frequently quoted in major publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Advertising Age, and USA Today. He authors several work and personal blogs, including www.consumergeneratedmedia.com, www.hybridbuzz.com, and www.emailbymachiavelli.com. Prior to Nielsen Online, Pete was at P&G where he led initiatives dealing with online advertising development, online issues/rumor management, online sampling, database marketing and consumer word-of-mouth behavior. He also co-chaired and organized the P&G sponsored Future of Advertising Stakeholders Summit (FAST-Summit). Before receiving his master's degree from Harvard Business School in 1995, Blackshaw served as a press secretary and legislative consultant to then-Senator Art Torres in the California Legislature, where he guided several consumer-focused bills to passage and initiated the nation's first "interactive" legislative hearing. He also has a BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Erica Blitz, who often goes by the online handle ProgGrrl, is co-editor of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA fansite Galactica Sitrep, and blogs about miscellaneous TV, film and pop culture at FanGrrl Magnet. She currently works in film marketing in New York City and has a background in both film and music marketing. For a closer look at how Sitrep covered the WGA strike from the fan perspective, check out the site's tagged posts here.

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Toby Bloomberg's passion is helping marketers "get" the benefits of social media marketing so it's not a surprise that you can find Toby speaking and consulting on the topic at conferences and for organizations such as 3M, M/A/R/C, GourmetStation, American Marketing Association, PRSA, New Communications Forum, Blog World, Theraplex, Cox Communications, Purina and BlogHer. Toby's blog Diva Marketing www.divamarketingblog.com is among the highest ranked solo written female blog on Ad Age Power 150.

Teresa Boardman is a Realtor with Keller Williams in St. Paul, MN. She started The St. Paul Real Estate Blog as an experiment in 2005 and gained national and local attention, with write ups in the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the LA times, and Realtor magazine. Her blog focuses exclusively on the city of St. Paul, Minnesota and contains over a thousand individual posts and more than a 2,000 photos of the city. The blog is used as an example of the best practices in web 2.0 marketing. Boardman was named one of the top 25 most influential bloggers in 2007 by Inman news and is considered an innovator and leader in Web 2.0 marketing.

Boardman is also a columnist for Inman news, a contributor to Agent Genius, and the Real estate tomato. She speaks and teaches a class for real estate professionals.

I founded Milblogging.com in September 2005. Prior to Milblogging, I ran a military blog from Afghanistan while I was deployed with the Army National Guard during Operation Enduring Freedom V. My original military blog "The National Guard Experience" was written as a means to stay in touch with family, friends, and supporters while on deployment. During my deployment I decided to create an aggregator site of military-related blogs from around the world. Milblogging is an internet database for organizing military blogs. It’s main attraction is its index of military blogs from all over the world. In late September 2005, I launched the website. In an effort to accelerate the spread of soldier-journalism, Milblogging was acquired by Military.com in January 2006. In June 2007, I was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an Infantryman running Convoy Security missions throughout Iraq and continued to maintain Milblogging.com as well I participated in Deborah Scranton's film "Bad Voodoo's War". I returned back to the U.S. in May 2008.

Stowe Boyd is the Front Man for The /Messengers, a role that includes playing editor for /Message, /Ground, /Mind, and /Ambivalence, and leading the /Edgewards blog federation. Stowe is obsessed with social tools and their impact on media, business, and society, and has written and spoken on those topics for over a decade.

Susan is the co-founder and CEO of Personal Life Media, Inc. Personal Life Media is the first podcast and blog advertising network for advertisers to reach the 'cultural creatives' market segment. Expert hosts deliver talk shows, reality-audio programming, interviews, advanced techniques and guided exercises for self-empowerment.

Susan is also a founder and Vice Chairman of the Association for Downloadable Media.

Since 2005, she has hosted a popular podcast in the digital media industry called "DishyMix : Juicy Podcast Interviews with Famous Internet and Media People."

Susan has launched and run sales and marketing for @Home Network, Excite, Mailblocks (acquired by AOL), and Maven Networks (acquired by Yahoo!). Susan is Chair Emeritus of ad:tech and a sought-after speaker in the digital marketing and media industry. She is one of the inaugural board members of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and currently sits on the board of directors or advisors for Jingle Networks, NewsForce, Merchant Circle, ZEDO, Collarity, Powered and the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association.

Will is the online editor of ProfessionalTravelGuide.com, a writer for FanHouse, SportsbyBrooks and Mouthpiece Sports, and the creator and editor of Brahsome and Mister Mittens. He is also planning an ACC blog. Yes, he knows he has too many websites.

Michael Brito is a Social Media Strategist for Intel Corporation focusing on the consumer segment. He blogs, communicates and builds relationships with other people. He uses Twitter actively. He believes that marketing is good; and if you love your customers they'll love you back and tell other people about it. He believes that business results are critical but should not be the driving force behind connecting with people. He believes in being real, authentic and human. He believes that consumers are real people with real passions; and that marketers should start treating them that way. He is a recovering direct marketer and has worked for companies such as Sony Electronics, Hewlett Packard and Yahoo! He is on the Interim Board of Directors for the Social Media Club; a member of the Blog Council and sometimes even blogs there. He is also the founder of Conversations Matter (yet another blog about social media).

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a social media blog.

Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value. He currently serves as VP Strategy & Technology at CrossTech Media, an integrated media and events business. Chris frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media.

Rich Brooks is founder and president of flyte new media, a Web design and Internet marketing firm in Portland, Maine. He writes a monthly email newsletter called flyte log, and blogs regularly at flyteblog.com on Web marketing topics such as search engine optimization, email marketing, business blogs, social media and building Web sites that sell.

He is the "tech guru" for 207, an evening news magazine on WCSH, the local NBC affiliate and teaches a course on Web marketing at the University of Southern Maine.

Morgan Brown is the Drector of Marketing for TurnHere. With a strong background in online marketing, Morgan brings nearly 8 years of experience in web development, search optimization and marketing, permission marketing, loyalty program development, online application development and new media marketing. Morgan joined TurnHere from New Day Trust Mortgage where he was the chief marketing officer responsible for brand development, online marketing and direct response online lead generation. Prior professional experience includes online marketing positions at Interactivate, an online marketing agency, where he worked to develop online marketing and new technology strategy solutions for well-known consumer brands Sunkist, Little League Baseball, Sony Pictures, San Diego Padres, MasterCard, Nickelodeon, Universal, and others and SalesMountain.com a consumer retail price search engine.

Additionally, Morgan has written several published articles and maintains the well-respected finance blog blownmortgage.com for which he was named to "Inman News Top 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers" for 2007.

Michael has worked for innovative companies, including DoubleClick and Operative, in New York City’s Silicon Alley in the Adserving and new media Industry. His clients included Cartoon Network, Brightcove, Marvel Comics, National Public Broadcasting, and CBS Radio. He founded 11|15 Media because of opportunities in the affiliate marketing industry and to teach good business practices.

David Bullock, of www.davidbullock.net is known for introducing the advanced testing and tracking method known as Taguchi-TRIZ to the Internet Sales. He teaches business bloggers and offline business how to use these methods to increase conversion rates to a documented 600%. His practice has been featured in both Direct Marketing News and Black Enterprise Magazine.

Matthew "Blackfive" Burden enlisted in the military when he was seventeen. After serving as a Sergeant in Airborne and Special Operations units, he received a Commission as an Armor (Cavalry) Officer. Matt served in units in across the globe in many military areas before working as an Intelligence Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). After a sixteen year career, he left the military in July of 2001.

To honor the sacrifice of a good friend who gave his life in Iraq to save a convoy, Matt began Blackfive.net to support the military and military families, tell the stories that are not getting told in the media, and raise public awareness of the sacrifices being made. Blackfive.net is one of the most popular military blogs and has garnered many awards.

As a result of the military blogging phenomenon, Simon & Schuster published "The Blog of War" which Matt authored and edited - a book about the effects of Web 2.0 on the military and bloggers' stories from war.

Matt has a Masters of Science degree (Computer Science) from the University of Chicago where he received the Faculty Award. He also has an MBA from the University of Illinois. When not blogging, studying, or playing with his kids, Matt works as an executive in the IT field for a firm in Chicago. And if he had more time, he'd open a pub where veterans would get their first Guinness "on the house." (Paratroopers would get two).

Stefania Pomponi Butler is a professional blogger/writer/editor/producer who covers parenting, politics, food, pop culture, and green issues with a cheeky twist.

In addition to writing her personal blog, the popular, long-running parenting blog CityMama, Stefania is one of the Founding Editors of Kimchi Mamas (her culture and identity site) and a Founding Editor of MOMocrats.com (a progressive political blog). She spoke at BlogHer 07 on the subject of professional blogging and at Blogher Business 08 on pitching to bloggers of color.

As a freelance writer, Stefania has published articles in the November 2007 and July 2008 issues of Good Housekeeping and the July 2008 issue of Redbook. Stefania also runs a successful freelance blog consulting business.

CityMama, with over 3,000 RSS subscribers, is a Bloglines Parenting "QuickPick," and MOMocrats was one of the few political blogs to get a coveted credential to cover the DNC.

In addition to the publications above, Stefania's work has appeared in various parenting magazines, in the New York Times, KoreAm Journal (twice), and on Pacific Time on NPR.

Stefania lives in Silicon Valley.

Rick Calvert is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo. He has been active the trade show industry since 1996 serving as Sales Manager / Director of Sales for three Tradeshow Week 200 events including the SEMA Show, AWFS®Vegas and the DEMA Show as well as one of the nation’s largest consumer shows, Comicon. He has been a voracious new media consumer since 2000 and launched his own blog The Real Ugly American in 2005.

After searching in vain for an industry wide "new media tradeshow" he decided to launch BlogWorld in 2006.

Prince Campbell is a new media writer/producer and consultant. A former music business executive, Prince Campbell is most well known in the blogosphere for Chartreuse, an often quoted by major media blog about internet media network management and culture. He is also head of Instablogs.com, a citizen powered global journalism site which averages 2.5 million page views a month.

Founded the Philly sports blog The700Level.com and is also one of the original bloggers at AOL's FanHouse. Loves everything Philadelphia and is an MBA student at GWU.

Todd Carpenter is creator of lenderama.com, the first and largest B2B mortgage industry blog, and founder of mariah.com, a network of Real Estate 2.0 web sites. Todd's efforts have received coverage in Investor's Business Daily, Inman News, RIS Media, & Inside Mortgage Technology. He has a sixteen year career in mortgage lending and real estate web marketing.

Becky Carroll is president of Customers Rock!/Petra Consulting Group and teaches companies how to improve their customer experience. She is the author of the blog Customers Rock! and is considered an expert in leveraging social media for customer loyalty. Becky teaches the class Marketing via New Media at UC San Diego Extension.

Becky is also a radio personality on the Big Biz Show, a nationally-syndicated program, and keeps trying to teach the hosts how to spell the word "blog". She has appeared with the Big Biz Show on WealthTV as well.

Previously, Becky was with Peppers and Rogers Group and also worked for many years at HP in customer loyalty. Clients have included both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies such as EA, HP, Fujitsu, and Ford.

Ward Carroll is the editor of Military.com, responsible for all news, editorials, commentaries, and other content on the site and in newsletters.

During his 20-year Navy career Ward served in four different F-14 squadrons accumulating more than 2,800 flight hours in operations that included five extended aircraft carrier deployments to hostile regions. His last tour on active duty was at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy, where he taught English, leadership, and ethics. He retired at the rank of commander. Immediately following his retirement, he worked as the communications director for the V-22 Osprey program at the Naval Air Systems Command.

Ward’s writing has appeared in a wide variety of periodicals including Golf World, Hits, and Proceedings. He was editor of Approach magazine as a lieutenant and in recent years wrote the popular “Grampaw Pettibone” column for Naval Aviation News. His three novels about a Tomcat pilot -- Punk's War (2001), Punk's Wing (2003), and Punk's Fight (2004) -- have been widely praised for their realistic portrayals of a Naval Aviator's life. He earned the Naval Institute Press’ “Author of the Year” honors in 2001. He has two other published works: The Aide (2005) and Militia Kill (2006). He currently blogs at Defensetech.org and his personal site, wardcarroll.com.

Ward’s military decorations include the Strike Flight Air Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal (four awards). He is married with two teenaged sons and splits his time between southern Maryland and San Francisco.

Phillip Carter started the "Intel Dump" blog in November 2002, focusing on the intersection of law and national security. Phil has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, and other publications. He served nine years in the Army as an MP and civil affairs officer, including a deployment to Iraq in 2005-06. Following his service, Phil attended law school and joined the firm McKenna Long & Aldridge, where he practices national security and government contracts law. Phil is currently on leave from his blog and law practice, serving in Chicago as the national veterans director for Obama for America.

Paul Chaney is president of the International Blogging and New Media Association (IBNMA). In his day job, he serves as marketing director for Web content management company, Bizzuka.com, where he is tasked with using the tools of new media for marketing and PR.

Paul has been involved in online marketing for nearly a decade. As one of the first business blogging consultants he understands at a granular level how conversational media tools such as blogs can be used for marketing purposes and has worked with a number of clients assisting them in deploying such strategies.

Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry in terms of encouraging Realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy. Along with Blogging Systems CEO Richard Nacht, he co-authored Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition, which similarly impacted the industry and which was the first blogging book to target a specific industry vertical.

He is a feature writer for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of blogs and social media for marketing purposes. He has led numerous workshops and seminars on the topic, including the first ever such seminar in Asia in 2005. He also blogged professionally with Weblogs, Inc and Allbusiness.com.

Paul has served as Technical Editor on a number of the "For Dummies" series books related to blogs and Internet marketing, and was contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, published by Wiley.

Will Chen is the marketing director of the Killer Aces blog network, which is best known for its popular blogs Wise Bread, Parenting Squad, and Healthcare Hacks. His insights on blogging and business have been cited by Forbes, CNBC, Nielsen's Media, and Master Card Small Business. Will is an expert at acquiring talented bloggers and training them to become media-savvy self-promoters. Under his guidance and management, Killer Aces bloggers are making frequent appearances on major news outlets and social media websites. Will recently closed a book deal for Killer Aces bloggers. "Living Large on a Small Budget: Wise Bread's Guide to Frugal Living" will be published in spring 2009.

Hi I'm Larry Chiang. My bio is on Amazon and Google. No, I'm not a video game 'butcher' as the google lists me..., but I do mentor and get mentored by Asse9 (A Secret Society of Entrepreneurs). It is Asse9 if you go deep into debt and don't own 100% of your business.

John Chow is the founder and CEO of TTZ Media Inc., an advertising network that provides shopping comparison banners to its affiliate sites. He is also the creator of John Chow dot Com, one of the most successful personal blogs on the Internet. John is best known for showing the power of blogging when he used his blog as an income case study. He took the blog from $350 per month to a over $27,000 per month in just one year.

Jay Christensen is a veteran newspaper journalist who recently left the Los Angeles Times after nearly two decades. His college football blog TheWizofOdds.com, a daily stop for sportswriters and fans, is entering its fourth year of operation. Jay also co-hosts a radio show each week on Sports Byline USA.

Mike Clark is a consultant, programmer, author, trainer, and public speaker. He helps people build better software faster through his company, Clarkware, and runs training events through The Pragmatic Studio.

Brian Clark is a new media writer/producer, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney. A ten-year-veteran of Internet publishing, Clark has racked up millions of dollars in sales thanks to a mix of targeted content and direct response copywriting.

Brian is most well known in blogging circles for Copyblogger, a resource for online copywriting and social media content strategies. Copyblogger has over 40,000 subscribers and is one of the most popular blogs in the world according to Technorati.

Featured in the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine and Honolulu Star Bulletin, Radio Show guest for the TV Reality series, The Apprentice, and Life Coach for the award winning TV reality show, Dream Makeover Hawaii, getting free publicity has become a specialty for Deborah Micek, the highly sought after new media marketing consultant.

Author of the first published book on New Media Marketing, “Secrets of Online Persuasion” Coach Deb ranks among bleeding edge experts and trend setters – all while keeping things simple for her clients.

Co-creator of the world’s premiere new media marketing software system, Blogi360.com allowed Coach Deb the ability to give her clients the unfair advantage to level the playing field with large corporations with big budgets.

Now, Coach Deb is living the ultimate business owner’s lifestyle; leveraging new media to work with clients from 13 countries - all from the most remote island chain in the world. Enjoying life in tropical paradise on the island of Oahu is a dream come true for Coach Deb.

Sit up tall, and get ready to participate, because this is one Coach whose energy is contagious!

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Shawn Collins has been an affiliate marketer since 1997 with a number of active affiliate projects, and a decade of affiliate management under his belt. He is a Co-founder of Affiliate Summit, the leading global conference and tradeshow for the affiliate marketing industry and Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine. He authored the book Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants and publishes the annual AffStat affiliate marketing benchmark reports. Shawn blogs daily on affiliate marketing at blog.AffiliateTip.com and co-hosts the weekly Affiliate Thing podcast, as well as the weekly GeekCast.fm Show. Additionally, Shawn has been quoted in numerous publications, including Entrepreneur Magazine, Internet Retailer, Inc. Magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Michael Colton writes for film and television, and is currently working on a new Fox animated show set to air next spring. He and partner John Aboud also appear regularly as panelists on VH1's "Best Week Ever," "I Love the 80s" and other shows. Before moving to L.A., they ran the Web magazine Modern Humorist, and prior to that, Colton was a staff writer for the Washington Post. During the writers strike, Colton & Aboud created the much-discussed parody website AMPTP.com (now housed at AMPTP.humortron.net). Joss Whedon praised them as "heroes," which is obviously an understatement.

Cheryl Contee specializes in helping Fortune 500 companies, major non-profit organizations and leading trade associations manage their brands and their campaigns online with a focus on social media and blogger relations. She is also a blogger and co-founder writing as Jill Tubman on one of the top 10 black blogs online, Jack and Jill Politics. She has over 13 years of award-winning interactive expertise and previously served as lead digital strategist for Fleishman-Hillard for the West Coast in San Francisco. Before Fleishman, Ms. Contee led the interactive team as Vice President at Issue Dynamics Inc, a boutique public affairs firm based in Washington DC, was Web Director for Oceana and directed international website production and strategic communications in roles at Discovery Communications, Business Software Alliance and U.S. Institute of Peace.

Ryan Corazza is the Blog Manager at Mouthpiece Sports. He also contributes to The Daily on ESPN the Mag, is a co-founder of Inside the Hall and has written for AOL's FanHouse.

Inspired by Redfin.com’s ‘Wall of Shame’ blog category, Jeff started TheXBroker.com in August of 2006 as a vehicle to express his industry knowledge and provocative opinion. Never one to shy away from a good debate and in constant need to have the last word, he’s been an active adversary of traditional real estate and mortgage business since running his own brokerages.

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Robert Cox is the Founder and President of the Media Bloggers Association, the largest association of bloggers and citizen journalists in the world. The Media Bloggers Association is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members, supporting the development of blogging or citizen journalism as a distinct form of media and helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.

Brad Coy has joined the family business standing on the shoulders of giants. A licensed sales associate, Brad is a part of the second generation at San Francisco Real Estate Services, a boutique company serving the community for 20 years. Having a diverse background of knowledge, a high level of integrity and a personal history with many of the wonderful neighborhoods of the city helps facilitate the real estate process for his clients in realizing their dreams.

Don Crowther, of StomperNet.com, is one of the leading experts on how to build business through appropriate usage of social media. He is the founder of the SMARTS (Social MARkerting Traffic Strategies) program, teaching social media strategies to thousands. Don has made his living online for 14 years, and is well known as an energetic and motivating speaker and teacher.

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Roxanne has over 20 years experience as an expert presenter and trainer throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, consistently garnering 5-star ratings. She educates and inspires while translating complex technology jargon into easy-to-grasp concepts. A popular speaker in the tech and business communities, including BlogHer Business, New Media Expo, IABC, and PRSA, Roxanne is effective with small intimate groups and has presented to audiences of over 1500 people. She has a "gift for both grounding and lifting you at the same time."

Co-owner of Bare Feet Studios, she has been working on the web since 1995; she is one of the original video podcasters and the star of the award-winning internet TV show, Beach Walks with Rox which currently has over 680 episodes. She is a founding member of the Social Media Club and Hawaii's original social media expert, and is featured in three new book releases: Leap! Ditch Your Job, Start Your Own Business & Set Yourself Free by Ian Sanders, Web Video: Making it Great, Getting it Noticed by Jennie Bourne, and Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day by Dave Evans.

Roxanne lives at the bleeding edge of new technology, is comfortable working in disruptive marketplaces, and is a passionate translator of complex new concepts into easy-to-understand and implement strategies. Her many years as a coach for Johnson & Johnson and as an international trainer enable her to connect with diverse audiences and to help her business clients use the internet in personalized, tech- and business-savvy ways. Her philosophy is to cultivate a unique mix of technology, authentic messaging, and audience interaction for each project.

Rox will be announcing the opening of the Know How Cafe at Blog World Expo!