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!

Anil Dash is Chief Evangelist at Six Apart, Ltd, where he's played a formative role in helping create the world's leading blogging company. Dash is a recognized expert on blogs, web technology, web culture and the software industry, having founded one of the earliest and most popular weblogs on the Internet, which was named one of MSNBC's "Best of Blogs". A frequent keynote speaker, Dash has given presentations around the world about the future of social communication online, the relationship between blogs and traditional media, and business blogging. Dash's work is frequently featured in media including the Washington Post, Wired, MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, NPR and on television, radio, print and blogs around the world. In addition to his professional work, Dash has received notice for his role in popularizing web culture in mainstream media venues ranging from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to the Houston Chronicle, which labeled him a "legendary blogger".

Matt Dickman is Vice President of Digital Marketing in Fleishman-Hillard’s award winning digital practice. He brings over 12 years of emerging media, technology, and integrated marketing experience to this role. Matt’s extensive work with traditional offline advertising and public relations efforts affords him a strategic vision across marketing channels.

Matt is the author of Techno//Marketer (http://technomarketer.typepad.com), a top marketing blog according to Advertising Age and he is considered a leader in social media and emerging technology. He is a nationally known speaker on topics surrounding emerging media and loves golf and photography.

Born in Bulgaria, Angel Djambazov has spent his professional career in the fields of journalism and online marketing. In his journalistic career he worked as an editor on several newspapers and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wyoming Homes and Living Magazine. Later his career path led to online marketing where while working at OnlineShoes he earned the Affiliate Manager of the Year (2006) award at the Affiliate Summit, and In-house Manager of the Year (2006) award by ABestWeb. Currently Angel is the OPM for Jones Soda, leads the marketing efforts of PopShops.com which was awarded Best Affiliate Tool (2007) award by ABestWeb, and is the Managing Editor for Revenews.com.

Angel lives north of Seattle, spending his free time reading up on obscure scientific references made by his wife, Jenn, while keeping up with a horde of cats and a library of books.

Ken Doctor covers the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital, focusing on changing business models and the journalism created. He's a well-read news industry analyst and blogger for Content Bridges and Outsell, believing that the sprouts of the emerging journalism we see today will become mainstream in the next decade.

He's on his fifth career, from alternative weeklies to magazines to daily newspapers to online media to industry analyst. A veteran of 21 years with newspaper giant Knight Ridder, he's now glad to be in the midst of the booming, buzzing confusion in today's media world.

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Sheila Bernus Dowd blogs about the many different facets of her life (on 5 different blogs) including: being a Filipina mother, raising children in Silicon Valley, her volunteer work, politics and obsession with going to open houses on weekends.

She has been featured as a parent expert on Graco's Ready for the Road Online Campaign and serves on Yahoo's Mother Board.

She is the founder of Lookiloos.com, a home and garden voyeur site. She contributes to Silicon Valley Moms Blog, MOMocrats and Filipina Moms Blog. She blogs about all things mommy at xiaolinmama.com.

When not blogging or eating, she is a writer, non profit fundraising consultant and event producer in real life.

Nicki Dugan, senior director of corporate communications at Yahoo!, is editor of the company's official corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal. It launched in August 2006 as "Yet another self-serving corporate blog" with the mission of providing insights into the company, its people, its culture, and the things Yahoos think about in the shower. A year later, it was named a 2007 PR News Platinum PR Award finalist. Yodel covers company news, emerging trends, behind-the-scenes commentary, employee profiles, user stories, guest opinions, and includes videos and podcasts. All this while attempting to faithfully avoid regurgitation of product press releases. Contributing voices range from CEO Jerry Yang to summer interns. The blog has been lauded for having the cahones to accept comments of all flavors.

Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2000, Nicki represented consumer internet brands such as Yahoo!, Mapquest and Reel.com at Niehaus Ryan Wong, the tech PR agency that presided over the halcyon days of the Internet boom (and may it rest in peace). She also served as editorial director at Sheila Donnelly & Associates of Honolulu and as senior editor at Travel Holiday magazine. Nicki received a B.A. in English from Franklin & Marshall College. She has no spare time.

Jim is a realtor and real estate blogger in Charlottesville, VA. The author of www.RealCentralVA.com and a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in 1998, Jim has always been intrigued by technology, started blogging in January 2005, and has been growing his business ever since. Jim has a unique perspective on real estate. Both of his parents are realtors, and he grew up answering the phones in their office. This perspective, of knowing real estate from the time MLS books were prevalent to today's fractured MLS gives him a different perspective from many. Active in his local and state realtor associations, Jim served recently on the NAR MLS PAG. Jim is also the author of www.realcrozetva.com, a hyper-local blog in Crozet.

Jeanne Dupuis is currently b5media's Music Channel Editor and Training Manager, where she oversees the training of more than 200 bloggers, many of whom write about celebrities in one form or another. Before joining b5media, Jeanne created the Intestinal Illnesses forum and community for Canadian Internet Service Provider, Sympatico. She spent two years working the crisis lines at a local distress centre, an invaluable experience that allowed her to learn much from the people who were calling me for help. Jeanne holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with a minor in Communications from Athabasca University and is currently completing her Master of Science degree in Psychology from Capella University. She is clearly Canadian and proud of it.

Frank Eliason is currently the Director of Digital Care for Comcast. This basically means he and his team surf the net, learning from Customers and assisting when possible. Frank joined the Comcast Customer Service Team in Philadelphia in September, 2007. Besides the social media channel, Frank and his team review feedback and work to create a better Customer experience by reviewing Customer comments submitted through email or posted in forums on the Comcast website. Frank has become best known as ComcastCares on Twitter. The efforts of his team have been recognized by many news organizations, including the New York Times, ABC News, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

When not at work, Frank can be found spending time with his family, playing with new electronic gadgets and talking to people on the internet. Frank is married to Carolyn and his children are Lily, Robyn, and Gianna. His first exposure to social media was not listening to Customers, but rather communicating about the health of his daughter Gianna, who was born premature. Years later when she was diagnosed with cancer, Frank and Carolyn again communicated through their website. Gia passed away in 2004, shortly before her 4th birthday. Through the website they have found many great new friends from around the world. In Gia's memory, when possible, Frank and Carolyn work to support many of the charitable organizations that helped them.

Richard S. Levick, Esq. President & CEO of Levick Strategic Communications, protects brands and reputations during the highest-stakes global crises. His firm directed the media on the spinach, pet food and toy recalls; Guantanamo Bay; the Catholic Church; the largest DOJ fine in history; and several multinational mergers. The Firm wins the communications wars with comprehensive, cutting edge digital campaigns and traditional media and grassroots outreach. A regular commentator on television, he was recently named to both the PRNews Hall of Fame and to the College of Law Practice Management for life time achievement. Join the conversation at: bulletproofblog.com.

I'm the Chief Evangelist (& operating broker) at Diamond Dwellings™ Realty based near Atlanta, Ga. I like to write stuff like this in the first person, that way it's "just you and me talking". That's kind of the way we operate -- no stuffy corporate stuff. Just hard work & results, etc.

We started Diamond Dwellings 18 months ago because we saw an opportunity to build a new kind of brokerage -- one that truly leverages all the cool new web 2.0 tools. We made Diamond Dwellings very scalable, so lots of other agents & brokers could benefit from the platform. We're rolling that out now across the US

Our local blogs all share a common brand of URL such as MiamiDwellings.com, VegasDwellings.com & PaloAltoDwellings.com. We're also developing demographic niches like GolfDwellings.com, RanchDwellings.com and EquestrianDwellings.com

Jason Falls is the Director of Social Media for Louisville-based brand-building agency Doe-Anderson and the author of SocialMediaExplorer.com, an AdAge 150 marketing blog. He is a public relations professional by trade, a former radio network producer and is co-founder of the Social Media Club Louisville.

A serial entrepreneur and Internet veteran, George Favvas has over 13 years of broad experience in sales, marketing, product management and development. At SmartHippo.com, George leads the product development teams with a view to developing the next generation of user-centered financial service applications. George is also co-founder and CEO of Reflexity, a profitable company providing customer acquisition services to major financial institutions. Previously, George served as Director of Internet Communications and Senior Business Development / Engagement Manager at consumer software developer Zero-Knowledge Systems (now Radialpoint, Inc). Prior to that, George co-founded Interfusion Internet Strategies, Inc, an early provider of Internet connectivity and development services to mid-size companies, and managed the web services division at TotalNet, an Internet service provider.

Beth was a “typical civilian” before discovering milblogs in 2004. After milblogger Chuck Z was wounded in 2005, she co-founded Project Valour-IT with the support of the milblog community. Valour-IT has since distributed over 2,700 adaptive laptops for the wounded, and under Beth’s leadership, bloggers unite each Veterans Day in a friendly fundraising competition.

Beth received a 2006 Milbloggie for Fuzzilicious Thinking, and a 2007 Deutsche Welle Best of the Blogs jury award for using the Valour-IT project blog to coordinate and fundraise. She also writes for the respected Castle Argghhh! milblog, and telecommutes from her patio as Assistant to the President of Internet-based troop support non-profit Soldiers’ Angels.

A savvy marketing chick and professional writer for over 15 years, Kelly Ripley Feller is a social media addict and outspoken proponent of change and marketing evolution. Professionally Kelly has enjoyed a diverse career managing marketing and communications programs for organizations that include non-profit, natural foods, healthcare, and high technology. She has worked with a variety of technology companies including Intel, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Intuit, SAS Software, Symantec, and IBM. Today she manages social media programs for Intel and writes about social media, marketing, business, Second Life, and politics, including a column on social media and politics for a literary magazine. An enthusiastic live music lover and classical singer, Kelly performs at local schools and senior homes and is a hospice volunteer for veterans. She has been active in Second Life for over a year and a half-the equivalent of several lifetimes in that virtual realm. She lives outside of Portland, OR with her husband and son, and holds a BA in Communications and Political Science from the University of Michigan.

Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People of 2007," is author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek.

He has been featured by dozens of media, including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.

Jonathan Fields writes the Awake @ The Wheel blog at JonathanFields.com, runs marketing group, Vibe Creative, founded NYC's top-rated yoga center, Sonic Yoga, and recently launched an entrepreneurship-training venture, Career Renegade, Inc. He's taken an idea through the book-deal process, from developing a concept to finding an agent and landing a deal with Random House/Broadway Books. Jonathan's book, "Career Renegade: How To Make A Great Living Doing What You Love" will be published in January 2009.

Laura "@Pistachio" Fitton is CEO of Pistachio Consulting Inc., the first social media agency dedicated to business use of microsharing (microblogging). Pistachio creates business value for clients through innovative consulting and programs in both external market engagement and internal enterprise 2.0 collaboration.

Fitton's network exceeds 5300 readers on the popular microsharing platform Twitter, and her innovative use of social media attracts international attention, as profiled by Naked Conversations author Shel Israel, The New York Times, The LA Times, Newsweek.com, Inc.com, The NYT Magazine, Women's World and ZDNet.com. She maintains an active speaking schedule and guest lectures at Bentley College. For more information, www.pistachioconsulting.com.

In January 2004, Debbie Galant, a former freelance columnist for the Jersey section of the New York Times, started a personal blog, "Debra Galant Explains the Universe." Within a few months, she met new media savant Jeff Jarvis at a blogger meetup at the Dancing Goat Cafe in South Orange, NJ. When Jarvis mentioned "hyperlocal blogging," the idea immediately struck a chord in Galant. Baristanet, a hyperlocal site covering three towns in North Jersey, was born in May 2004.

Considered a premier example of local website journalism, Baristanet was named #1 placeblog in America by Placeblogger.com in 2007. It now boasts about 9,000 daily visits and a robust advertising base. Liz George became co-owner of Baristanet in 2005. In addition to Galant and George, eight people contribute to the site on a freelance basis.

Pete Geren joined the Department of Defense in September of 2001 to serve as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense with responsibilities in the areas of inter-agency initiatives, legislative affairs and special projects.

Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Geren was an attorney and businessman in Fort Worth, Texas.

From 1989 until his retirement in 1997, Geren was a member of the U.S. Congress, representing the Twelfth Congressional District of Texas for four terms. He served on the Armed Services, Science & Technology and the Public Works and Transportation Committees during his tenure in the Congress.

Geren received his BA degree from the University of Texas in 1974 and his JD from University of Texas Law School in 1978.

Susan Getgood is a marketing & social media consultant who is also a huge science fiction and fantasy fan, especially of the Whedonverse and Battlestar Galactica. Sites related to those fandoms was where she got much of her initial information about the strike, and formed the initial inspiration for the Writers Strike panels. She has been involved in online marketing since the early 90s, and watched the web evolve from the first browsers to the interactive communities we participate in today. Since 2004, her firm GetGood Strategic Marketing has been advising organizations of all shapes and sizes on integrated social media and marketing strategies that will help them meet their customers online, build their brands and drive revenue. Prior to that, Susan was a senior marketing executive at an Internet software company. She writes two blogs, Marketing http://getgood.typepad.com/ Roadmaps and Snapshot Chronicles http://snapshotchronicles.com and contributes to a number of group blogs. In 2008, Susan was named a Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research http://www.sncr.org.

J.B. Glossinger is the founder of MorningCoach.com, an online community that has quickly blossomed into the world's largest real time personal development Web site. From Argentina to Zimbabwe, loyal listeners in more than 80 countries tune in daily to hear his podcast, skyrocketing it to the top spot on iTunes Health. In addition to his work on MorningCoach.com, J.B. also founded the innovative media-marketing firm ViralKungFu, Inc., a company specializing in social and traditional media. JB is a personal development coach, a well-regarded keynote speaker and the author of Get Out Of Neutral. He has an MBA and a PhD in Metaphysics.

K. Daniel Glover is the executive producer of Eyeblast TV, a video-sharing site and online social network created by the Media Research Center. He also writes at the Eyeblast blog, Video Done Right. Glover has 17 years of journalistic experience in Washington, with most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly. He headed Technology Daily and wrote Beltway Blogroll for National Journal. Glover also is the publisher and executive producer of AirCongress, a portal to audio and video of, by and about Congress. And he has other blogs about presidential homes and the tax burden in America.

Gregory Go is the About.com Guide to Online Business. About.com is a New York Times publication with 53 million visitors per month. In 2007, Greg co-founded the Killer Aces blog network, where he hired and managed over 50 probloggers. Greg is also a blog and online strategy consultant to all kinds of businesses around the world. He helps clients develop their online presence, advising them on issues like content development, blogger management, and ecommerce solutions.

Barry Graubart is Vice President, Product Strategy and Business Development for Alacra, publisher of Research Recap, which aggregates alternative and traditional financial and investment information. Alacra is also the host of the Premium Content Ad Network an affiliate widget that enables financial and business bloggers to better monetize their sites. Graubart is also author of the Content Matters blog and can be found tweeting @graubart.

Prior to Alacra, Barry served as Chief Marketing Officer for Leadership Directories. He previously held several leadership roles with semantic technology provider ClearForest. Prior to that, he held various product, marketing and general management roles with divisions of Primedia, the Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers.

Barry sits on the board of the content division of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and chairs its Social Media Action Committee.

Daniel Gray is the founder and editor-in-chief of MPGomatic.com, "where mileage matters" ... the Internet's independent authority on fuel efficient vehicles. As a veteran tech writer with twenty books to his credit, Daniel has a penchant for both the untold tale and the long tail. He began his Internet career in 1995 -- doing trade show blogging long before it was called blogging -- and ceased felling trees in 2004 to focus his efforts exclusively online.

Michael Gray has worked in the internet world since 1998, when he became Webmaster for a major retailer in New York. He developed their website strategy and grew their online sales from $100,000 to over $25 million in annual website sales. Michael then moved into affiliate marketing and started his own consulting firm. Michael has worked with many businesses to develop and implement their Social Media Strategy. He also specializes in blog development and Search Engine Optimizations for businesses of all sizes.

Michael has been a speaker at Search Engine Strategies, PubCon, SEOClass and SMX. He is also moderator at Sphinn and Webmaster World.

Michael is President of Atlas Web Service, located in Long Island, New York.

Louis Gray is the author of louisgray.com, a Silicon Valley-based early adopter Web site focused on social media, technology and innovation. The site has most notably championed the emergence of RSS feed aggregators, social media sites and distributed conversations, and has been a platform for discussions on best practices for linking, commenting and advertising.

When not blogging, Louis works in corporate marketing and public relations for a private Silicon Valley technology infrastructure company, and is an advisor to ReadBurner, Inc. Louis is a UC Berkeley graduate, holding a degree in Political Science and Mass Communications, and is a recent father of a twin boy and girl.

Louis can be reached by e-mail at louisgray@mac.com or by phone at 408 646-2759.

Dan is a widely-recognized mortgage expert among national press and his wildly popular mortgage industry blog, The Mortgage Reports, has been featured by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune. A Pennsylvania State University graduate with a B.S. in Finance, Dan began his professional career as a software engineer for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and later served Bank of America as an Assistant Vice-President. Advising and educating leaders of Fortune 500 companies, Dan helped corporations save millions of dollars using sophisticated data synchronization tools. Dan later realized that his work was benefiting corporations, but he was doing very little to help individual people. Reflecting on his own experience as a homeowner and mortgage applicant, he embarked upon a career in mortgage lending. As mortgage volume decreases across the country, Dan's client base has grown at a rapid pace because he has approached homeowners the same way he approached the Board Room -- by providing enough facts and education to help people make intelligent decisions about money.

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Greyhawk began the blog The Mudville Gazette in March, 2003, and the MilBlogs Ring - the first "community" of military bloggers - later that year. He has blogged from Iraq in 2004-2005, and again in 2007. In 2006 he started MilBlogs, a multi-author blog/chat forum for milbloggers. In 2008 he created MilBlogs TV, launching the milblogs 'brand' into yet another new media frontier.

The Mudville Gazette has experienced steady growth since it's founding in 2003. Mudville has been mentioned on Fox News, USA Today, MSNBC, WaPo and CNN, as well as in a cover story in Army Times.

Though fellow military members (from young people considering a military career to veterans of America's past wars) are probably more frequent visitors to Mudville, the site is more popular among civilians looking for insight into the military or reports from the frontlines of the war on terror they cannot find in the MSM.

Mrs Greyhawk is co-author of the Mudville Gazette and MilBlogs, an endeavor begun in 2003 by her husband Greyhawk. They created the MilBlogs Ring - an informal association of 2700 members of current and former Soldiers, Sailers, Airmen and Marines and their family members sharing their stories from the front lines of combat zones and elsewhere around the world. Mrs G currently manages the MilBlogs Ring and The MilBlog Community on the Truth Laid Bear.

For several years now Mrs. G has published a daily compilation on the Dawn Patrol of the latest posts from frontline milbloggers, providing readers a rare glimpse of the war on terror through the eyes of those most directly engaged in the battle. As the 'home' of the MilBlogs, The Mudvile Gazette is generally regarded as the place to go to see what's happening in the world of the military blogs.

Tish Grier has spent the past two years building a one-woman problogging and social media consultancy in Western Massachusetts. Some of her efforts include the community blog for iFOCOS; Assignment Zero crowdsourced journalism project for Wired magazine, and community development at NewsTrust.net. Currently, she is building community at hyperlocal citizen journalism aggregator Placeblogger.com

First Sergeant CJ Grisham is a 14 year career Soldier stationed in Alabama. He joined the Army in October 1994 after realizing he needed a little structure and discipline in his life. The purple hair was also beginning to clash with his plaid shirts and he realized that a career at the Taco Bell drive through wasn't doing anything to get him the girls. His father is retired from the Navy and his grandfather served in the European theater during WWII as a belly gunner and bombardier of a B24. He started his blog, A Soldier's Perspective, after returning from OIF1 in 2003 and realized that he needed an avenue to tell his story and as a way of therapy to deal with his own demons of combat. Eventually, his blog morphed into a way to tell the Soldiers' story about the realities of combat on the ground. Seeing that media coverage was overwhelmingly biased against the war effort, he went through great efforts to put out the success stories and highlight the heroes of our military. CJ continues that tradition along with providing a military perspective to political issues affecting the armed services and its members. He is 100% dedicated to taking care of Soldiers, whether or not they are his. CJ is happily married to his hot wife, Emily, and they have three beautiful children. His goal is to retire from the military and begin a political career at the state or national level. Or teach JROTC - whichever happens first! CJ also started They Have Names, a site dedicated to the memory of our fallen troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Daniel Ha is a co-founder and the CEO at Disqus. Before leaving school early to work on Disqus full-time, Daniel studied computer science and engineering at UC Davis. At Disqus, Daniel focuses on front end development and the many aspects of user experience. Since he was young, Daniel has always been interested with working on the web. Today, he is still as passionate in creating products that people love to use.

Steve Hall has done time in media, account management and new business at, among others, Leo Burnett, Starcom/Mediavest, BlackSheep Marketing, and Bozell, where he managed marketing budgets for both consumer and business-to-business clients including Reebok, Sperry Topsider, Monster.com, Tyco, Marriott Hotels and Marshmallow Fluff.

Steve has written about and spoken for industry associations on topics such as the advertising's role in consumer-controlled media, the integration of public relations and advertising, the future convergence of media, the rise of social media and the decline of traditional media. Along with publishing Adrants, Steve co-founded MarketingVOX, an online marketing publication and is co-founder and publisher of the AD:TECH industry trade show weblog. In early 2007, he founded the advertising social networking site, AdGabber.

As managing editor of Yardbarker.com, Dewey works with sports publishers and athletes to produce and promote original sports content.

Jane Hamsher is the founder of firedoglake.com. Her work has also appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, PBS and the BBC, and is the author of the best-selling book Killer Instinct. She has produced such films as Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight. Firedoglake is best known for its groundbreaking coverage of the Valerie Plame case and live-blogging of the Scooter Libby trial. FDL is the home of the Blue America column and Accountability Now PAC, and FDL readers helped raised more than $500,000 for progressive candidates in 2006, $250,000 for '08 candidates, and more than $500,000 to hold them accountable to the voters.

Michael Harper has over 15 years’ of practical experience working, researching, and teaching in the Digital Media industry. Michael presently is an Associate Professor in the Digital Media Department at Utah Valley University and CEO of Podcast Tune-Up. He has recently authored “The Podgineer’s Guide to Professional Podcast Experiences” in an effort to transition a podcaster to that of a podcast engineer. He is an expert in the concepts and principles of Experience Design as a development strategy in digital media production.

Jon Henke is a strategic manager at New Media Strategies in Arlington, Va., where he has consulted for the Fred Thompson presidential campaign and other public affairs clients. Previously, he was the new media adviser to Senate Republicans in Mitch McConnell's Senate Republican Communication Center, where Congressional Quarterly said he “launched one of the first and most successful blogger outreach operations on the Capitol Hill, one that has served as a template for other offices.” Henke has been a blogger for 5 years at QandO.net and TheNextRight.com.

Alex Hillman is a freelance web developer, consultant and entrepreneur based in sunny Philadelphia. Alex has led and evangelized the coworking movement in Philly by founding Independents Hall, a collaborative community focused on mixing social interaction with shared office space. Since opening the space, Alex has assisted a number of other similar group leaders in focusing and energizing their efforts. Alex is also a driving force behind multiple social media and technology events and organizations in the city, sharing his infectious enthusiasm with every person that crosses his path (or finds him on Twitter).

Tom has been involved with Kodak’s Internet presence since its inception in the mid-90's. He has been active with all aspects of Kodak’s website and online communications, including: working with product groups to initiate web-based programs to meet business goals, driving compelling content activities to fuel online store, relationship marketing, and product awareness, and forging alliances with other websites to secure revenue and traffic.

Tom orchestrated the creation of the kodak.com’s award winning "Tips & Project" educational content and is a leader for Kodak’s blog and new media initiatives. He contributes to the Kodak blog at: http://tomhoehn.1000words.kodak.com

His current role is Director, Brand Communications and Convergence Media.

Tom has a patent for a unique method of displaying images on the Internet. He also received the Presidential Physical Fitness Award in the 5th grade. ;-)

Michael Hoffman is the CEO of See3 Communications, the leader in online cause marketing. Hoffman is an entrepreneur who has developed internet companies internationally as Managing Director of a venture capital investment group. He is an expert in online business development and marketing and is frequently asked to consult with organizations about marketing strategies and new media development.

His blog, See What's Out There, was named a must-read by the Nonprofit Times and he is frequently quoted in trade journals, industry blogs and the mainstream press. Hoffman is a co-founder of DoGooder.TV and EarthFirst.com, and is a nationally sought-after speaker on topics such as online cause marketing, web video, and Web 2.0 for social change.

Visit us at www.see3.net

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Daniel B. Honigman is the social media strategy coordinator for Tribune Interactive, where he plans and execute social media and interactive strategy across all Tribune Co. markets.

Tony originally got involved with Zappos.com as an advisor and investor in 1999, about 2 months after the company was founded. Over time, Tony ended up spending more and more time with the company because it was both the most fun and the most promising out of all the companies that he was involved with. He eventually joined Zappos.com full time in 2000. Under his leadership, Zappos.com has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6M in 2000 to $840M in 2007 by focusing relentlessly on customer service.

Tony focuses on continuing to grow the business at a rapid pace while maintaining the culture and feel of a small company. Prior to joining Zappos.com, Tony co-founded Venture Frogs with Alfred Lin. Venture Frogs is an incubator and investment firm that invested in Internet startups, including Ask Jeeves, Tellme Networks, and of course, Zappos.com. Prior to Venture Frogs, Tony co-founded LinkExchange, an advertising network that was successfully sold to Microsoft for $265M in 1998.

Tony met Alfred Lin (COO/CFO) in college, when Tony was running a pizza business and Alfred was his #1 customer.

Matt Hulett is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WidgetBucks, the fastest growing online ad network today. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully built profitable companies from scratch. After joining Mpire, WidgetBucks' parent company, as CEO in early 2006, Matt turned the standalone comparison shopping site into a multi-vertical ad distribution platform that serves over a billion impressions a month. Before Mpire, Matt was President of the corporate travel division of Expedia, Inc., the world's largest online travel company, where he launched the corporate travel business from an idea to a billion dollar worldwide leader in just a couple of years. Prior to Expedia, Matt was a founding partner of the next generation entertainment company, AtomFilms. He served as President of Atom Entertainment, a firm backed by both Sequoia Capital and Macromedia and was purchased by Viacom for $200M. Under Matt's direction, Atom captured over 20 million unique monthly users and became a leading consumer destination. Matt was the founding consumer products leader at RealNetworks launching many of the companies most successful products including the RealPlayer and its premium subscription software businesses. Matt also ran the market-leading Reflection X product line at AttachmateWRQ, a privately held provider of enterprise software. A Seattle native, Matt is a Puget Sound Business Journal 40-under-40 recipient (Sept. 2008), and he offers his extensive executive business insights through his personal blog, http://startupwhisperer.com.

Blogger, freelance photographer, Facebook curmudgeon, freelance writer, and consultant. Tris traverses the social media landscape with pragmatism, humour, and an healthy dose of irreverence. He writes on a wide range of topics from technology to social media to men's grooming.

Tris is sought after by companies needing to use social media tools for marketing and communications. Tris is also available as a photographer and conference blogging.

Shama Hyder is an expert marketing consultant to independent professionals and service firms around the world. As the founder of After The Launch, Shama teaches growth oriented companies how to leverage the internet to establish themselves as industry experts, acquire more clients, create valuable services, and ultimately increase profit through her one-on-one consulting work, and through her company’s several online marketing services.

She has successfully launched 3 businesses in the last 5 years. She holds a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, and prides herself in being a constant learner. Her website, http://www.AfterTheLaunch.com, has turned into a high-traffic destination for people looking for advice on how to market their businesses successfully. Her clients have garnered national media attention, and companies often look to Shama to guide them when it comes to the vast world of social media marketing.

Patrick Hynes is the president of Hynes Communications. He serves as the blog consultant for Sen. John McCain’s campaign for president and founded the blog Ankle Biting Pundits. An experienced political operative and consultant, Hynes has helped hundreds of candidates win public office. National Journal described him as “a hack with a pretty good record of electing Republicans; The American Conservative called Hynes “an expert on evangelical voting patterns'; and Campaigns & Elections named him a “Rising Star in American Politics.” Hynes is the author of 'In Defense of the Religious Right.' His writings have been published in the New York Post, Financial Times and USA Today, among other venues.

I have the pleasure of serving on Support Staff with ActiveRain, the world's largest On-Line Network and Blogging Platform for Real Estate Professionals.

I am currently studying for my Broker's License test here in WA State. I have finished all the required course work. In addition, I am becoming a certified trainer, and have been working on preparing a course of study for the Washington Association of Realtors on "Real Estate Blogging."

I co-author/manage a local blogsite in the Western Puget Sound WA entitled, www.SoundBiteBlog.com

Richard is a veteran Internet executive whose media experience includes leadership roles across the media spectrum: as a client, at an agency, as a publisher, and with an advertising network. Most recently, he worked as an M&A and strategy consultant for several Internet properties and investment firms, and also served as SVP of Corporate Development for Exponential Interactive, Tribal Fusion’s parent company. Previously, he was SVP of Business Development for Fox Interactive Media, and was the Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at IGN Entertainment (acquired by Fox Interactive), where he led the company’s M&A, business development and international activities. Before joining IGN, Richard led national accounts sales at Lycos, was Vice President of Business Development at Neopost Online, served as Senior Vice President/Managing Director of Answerthink, and founded K23 Creative Services in Singapore. His early career included management roles for Ford, IBM and Siemens, and he has a B.S. in business administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.

Michael Jenkins is the Founder and CEO of PrecisionPlay Media, the parent company of one of the Internet's fastest growing performance advertising networks: MarketLeverage.com. He is responsible for the creation, vision and overall direction of several Internet advertising related businesses. Under Michael's direction, PrecisionPlay Media employs over 50 people and has grown revenues nearly 500% over the past 3 years. PrecisionPlay was recently recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the "Top 100" Advertising and Marketing Companies in America. Michael is an interactive advertising veteran with hands-on experience at the affiliate level in search engine, email and web marketing. His recent efforts in social media have lead to significant increases in the size of MarketLeverage's publisher network and the debut of the affiliate industry's first Internet TV show: MLTV.

At the age of 15, Zac Johnson began making money online designing web site banners for $1 each. A self taught entrepreneur, Zac's been making money online for over 10 years and been involved in nearly every facet of affiliate marketing. Still a one man company, a recent highlight of Zac's success is "How I Made $860,538.38 Profit in 4 Months!" from one web site, and can be read at his Super Affiliate blog.

Zac's latest focus is his personal blog "Inside the Secret Life of a Super Affiliate"; www.ZacJohnson.com, where he provides readers firsthand accounts of his experiences, successes & failures. In addition to his own success stories, Zac reviews affiliate networks and informs readers how & where they should be making new money. He plans on releasing a case study of his secret tips free through his blog instead of in an ebook. Zac's blog has grown to over 3,800 subscribers and has referred over $250,000 in new business to his advertisers and network partners within it's first year of going live.

Born in New Zealand but has been living in the UK for 4 years. Andrew is married to Debbie (American) and we have 5 kids born in USA, Australia and Czech Republic. Andrew has been a pastor for 9 years and a missionary for many more. He has been a mission consultant for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, Dawn Ministries and have been the Director of the Boaz Project for the past 8 years. His work has taken him to over 40 countries and has focused on the global emerging culture. He began blogging in 1997 with and in 2001 reached the Number 3 top blogspot blog (Blogger Forum, 2002). Currently Andrew blogs at www.tallskinnykiwi.com.

Tim Jones has been working with internet projects and affiliate marketing for the last 8 years. Tim is the co-founder and CEO of DestinationsInFlorida.com; a travel site that focuses on the number one travel destination in the world, Disney World. This company revolutionized the way Disney travel is sold.

He authors several blogs and maintains several affiliate marketing sites, including TheRealTimJones.com. Tim participates on the RedHatBlueHat political podcast weekly, presented by the geekcast.fm network of podcasts. Tim attends and speaks at many conferences including Affiliate Summit, BlogWorldExpo, RocketPlace, and the Disney Earmarked Conference.

Spike Jones was born in Dallas, Texas. Not that you should care, since Spike will never ask you where you’re from, either. After graduating from the “I can’t dance” cult of Baylor University with degrees in Environmental Studies and Journalism (read: tree-hugging hippie writer), he explored these United States and finally settled at a place they call the Brains on Fire back in the Year of the Golden Dragon (2000).

Brains on Fire? It’s the identity company that helps organizations become movements. Spike (Spike to his friends) began there as a storyteller at Brains on Fire and now handles new business hounding and strategic development of word of mouth movements for companies including BMW, Rawlings Sporting Goods, Dagger Kayaks, Don Pablo’s Mexican Restaurants, Fiskars Brands, Yakima, Perception Kayaks and Rage Against the Haze (South Carolina’s youth-led anti-tobacco movement).

Spike sits on the Board of Directors for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) and is the agent of enlightenment at speaking gigs including various private events (Michelin, Biltmore Estates, Susan G. Komen Foundation), the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the Public Relations Society of America and the Association of National Advertiser's Senior Think Tank Committee.

Labeled “one to watch” from an anonymous answerer to our Net Promoter Survey, Spike is smart, good looking, athletic, persuasive and a rock star inside his own head. He also never passes up a chance to write his own bio.

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Mark Joseph is a multi-media producer, columnist and author. His books include Pop Goes Religion, Faith, God & Rock ‘n’ Roll , and The Rock & Roll Rebellion. His writings have appeared in publications like Billboard Magazine, Beliefnet, Christianity Today, The Jewish Press, Fox, NRO, and others.

Joseph is an award winning record producer who produced the rock soundtrack for The Passion Of The Christ featuring Lauryn Hill, Scott Stapp of Creed, MxPx, Blink 182, P.O.D. and others and has also supervised the international releases of over 70 records and produced the music for dozens of television commercials. He is founder and president of Bully Pulpit Records

He has produced two short films, The Bridge & Cupid, and developed and/or marketed 18 films including Ray, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, I Am David, Holes and others and is currently developing/producing four feature films, The Crusader, In His Steps Monkey Trial, and Sensei. Joseph is also a co-founder and president of the board of the Damah Film Festival.

He has also worked extensively as a TV host and producer having anchored The Entertainment Report for Group W and CNN, then spending five year as host and producer of NHK TV's The Interview, an international talk show that featured Joseph interviewing public figures like Jay Leno, Larry King, Charlton Heston, George Gallup, Gloria Allred and others.

Mr. Joseph also spent a decade as U.S. correspondent for two radio stations, Tokyo FM and FM Yokohama for whom he reported daily from Los Angeles and covered the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in 2000 for the Talk America Radio Network.

I've been an Army Wife for many years, and have a few to go. I'm the Mom of an Army Veteran, and Mom in law of an Army Veteran. Decided that Parents of Serving Military of any Service need a place to go to ask questions, read, vent and understand they are not alone. Found others who thought the same, and just jumped in!

LAW - Liberal Army Wife. Decided when the only military wives blogs I could find were conservatives - that the Liberals in the Army Family needed to be heard. It's heartening to find more and more of "us" making our voices heard - loudly!

One person - and a couple of different perspectives!

Marjorie Kase is Co-Founder of MarKyr Media, a Social Media PR/Marketing Agency that provides organic Online Reputation Management solutions for the Tech and Entertainment industries. Her services focus on Reputation Management, Content Development, Blogger Outreach, Education, and Personal Branding. She is also the CEO of Blogger Reps, a Public Relations firm that provides Blogger Outreach and Blog Education solutions. Marjorie possesses over 15 years experience in online marketing, publicity, and content production in the Entertainment and Tech space.

Prior to forming MarKyr Media and Blogger Reps, Marjorie was the Managing Editor of TV with MeeVee, where she oversaw editorial and marketing efforts, blogger relations, TV network relations, and red carpet reporting. Her written work has appeared in print publications and for websites ranging from Sassy Magazine, AOL Moviefone, Netflix, iVillage, AfterEllen, BlogCritics, AdRants, Slice of SciFi, Glitterati Gossip, and Give Me My Remote. She has also held promotions project management positions at Yahoo, Red Bull GmbH, and Yoyodyne Entertainment.

Marjorie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in American History and Film from Oberlin College, and a Master’s Degree in Adolescent Media Consumption from the University of Texas at Austin.

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

As a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, Paul Kedrosky shares his experience as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and academic to explore new programming opportunities for the Foundation in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, and capital markets. Previously, he was the executive director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, Calif. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally ranked University of California, San Diego.

Kedrosky is a venture capitalist, media personality, and entrepreneur. He is a sought-after speaker; an analyst for CNBC television; a columnist for TheStreet/RealMoney; the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the best-known business blogs on the Internet; and he is frequently quoted in major publications around the world. He has published more than 300 articles in academic and non-academic publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Harvard Business Review. He also is the chair of the Money:Tech conference in New York.

Kedrosky also is a venture partner with Ventures West, one of the longest standing institutional venture capital firms in North America. In that capacity his interests include consumer technologies, media, semiconductors, and life sciences. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software firm, as well as Dabble DB, a hosted data management company.Earlier in his career, Kedrosky founded the technology equity research practice at HSBC James Capel. As a highly ranked technology equity analyst, transactions with which he was involved created in excess of a billion dollars in public market value. He was one of the first analysts to cover Internet companies, as well as making early and timely calls in networking and communications.

Kedrosky has also been a successful entrepreneur. In 1999 he financed and launched one of the first hosted blogging services, GrokSoup. The service grew to more than a thousand subscribers.Kedrosky obtained his undergraduate degree in engineering from Carleton University, his MBA from Queen's University, and his Ph.D from the University of Western Ontario.

Pat is currently co-Founder, Managing Principal of Domus Consulting Group, a management consulting firm working with real estate brokerages, title insurance companies and Web 2.0 companies to develop technology marketing strategies. He worked for eight years in New York City and Tokyo as an investment banker on Wall Street, culminating as the Head of US Investment Banking for a leading Japanese investment bank. He left Wall Street in 1998 to manage the business development and financing activities at internet technology and real estate companies. He received an MBA at Columbia University where he was a Chase Manhattan Bank Fellow.

Kelley is a licensed REALTOR® in the state of Arizona and takes over 30 credits of continuing real estate education every year to stay current. Kelley graduated Cum Laude from the University of Arizona with a Systems Engineering degree with a specialty in software systems.

Kelley has spent the majority of her professional career working as a real estate agent in Tucson, AZ. Kelley has been recognized as one of the top 2% of agents in the nation based on production. Before becoming a Realtor®, Kelley worked as an engineer for some of the largest engineering firms in Tucson including Raytheon and Siemens.

Jim Kukral is a web marketer, speaker, award-winning blogger, customer evangelist, writer, online monetization expert, and well, a bunch of other things. For years Jim has been working on the bleeding edge of web marketing and business. From owning his own web firms to consulting for some of the world’s largest companies, Jim Kukral has experienced just about everything web related you can think of. That’s why Jim has become one of the Industry’s most sought after consultants and public speakers. When Jim isn’t speaking or consulting to top Fortune 500 clients, Jim spends his business hours as the owner of Scratchback.com http://www.scratchback.com , a widget-based tipping system that thousands of bloggers and webmasters use daily. Jim also produces a daily web show about web marketing and being an entrepreneur called the Daily Flip, where he broadcasts shows in audio or video.

Jon Lansner is The Orange County Register's business columnist and real estate blogger. Since 1986, Jon has covered the Orange County economy — and its real estate scene — as a reporter, editor columnist and blogger for The Register. The "Lansner on Real Estate" blog was launched in March 2006. It is The Register's #1 for page views. Jon is a New York City native, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and was the 2005-2006 president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. "Lansner on Real Estate" blog won a "Best In Business" award from SABEW for 2007 work.

James Ledbetter is Editor, the Big Money, a new financial website launched by Slate.com. Prior to joining Slate, Ledbetter served as deputy managing editor at CNNMoney.com.Previously, he was a senior editor at Time, working for the magazine's European edition. He is the author of Starving To Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of The Industry Standard (Public Affairs, 2003), and Made Possible By...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States (Verso, 1997). Ledbetter is also the editor of Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx, published in 2007 by Penguin Classics. Ledbetter is the former editor-in-chief of The Industry Standard Europe, a former staff writer for The Village Voice, and has written about politics and media for Slate, GQ, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New York Times, Vibe, Mother Jones, and many other publications.

Lee LeFever is the founder and principal of Common Craft, LLC. Common Craft produces short online videos that focus on making complex ideas easy to understand. Since April of 2007, Common Craft's whiteboard-based "paperworks" videos have been viewed over 5 million times and the company has worked with organizations such as Google, LinkedIn and Meetup.com on custom video projects. Lee founded Common Craft in 2003 and works with his wife Sachi from their home in Seattle Washington.

Jim has had ink in his blood for a long time – 18 years in the news business, including work as a reporter and an editor at three newspapers. But over the past year and a half, Jim has helped guide Gannett Co.'s 85 local newspapers out of their print traditions and into a digital future. That involves much more than just trading offset plates for binary code. It means embracing the way the Internet works and delivering information in methods that engage communities – from blogging to podcasting, social bookmarking to social networking, crowdsourcing to the activity web, video to mobile applications. Jim works with newspapers across the nation on these and other initiatives, and he believes strongly that the future of local newspapers depends on becoming a hub for community conversation; blogging is one of the best ways to accomplish that mission.

Born in Toronto, live in Phoenix with a loyal wife (11 years, 12.5 in Canadian), two awesome kids and a dachshund. Schools - University of Western Ontario, Arizona State University, American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).

I currently manage a hedge fund and have done so since June of 1998. The fund has evolved into a long only fund with approximately 50 percent in equities and 50 percent in private investments.

In the Summer of 2006, I created Wallstrip and with the help of Adam Elend, Jeff Marks, Lindsay Campbell and a hard working crew we have created over 300 shows. In May 2007, Wallstrip was purchased by CBS and I continue to work with CBS and Wallstrip today. I am a partner in two other funds called Knight's Bridge Capital Partners . The Howard Lindzon blog can be found at howardlindzon.com

John LoGioco is Vice President, Business Development for Outbrain Inc. in New York. John is responsible for creating strategic partnerships for the company across all channels. Prior to joining Outbrain, John held sales and management positions with Time Inc. and Reuters in New York, Los Angeles and South Florida. Working with top brands and advertising agencies, John focused on delivering digital solutions both in the consumer and enterprise sectors. Before crossing over to the sales side, John started his career in the media department of ad agency, Ammirati & Puris in New York. An honors graduate from the University of Colorado, John resides in New Jersey with his wife Arline and 2 sons.

Before assuming editor duties at Defense Tech, Christian spent five years with the Military Times newspapers in Springfield Va., as a senior writer. He has covered military operations worldwide, embedding with Army and Marine units in both Iraq and Afghanistan, observing detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, covering humanitarian missions in Lebanon and New Orleans, participating in training exercises at military bases from California to Florida and reporting on military policy and budgets in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.

In 2005, Christian was awarded the Associated Press Managing Editor's Association award for investigative journalism after exposing that the Marine Corps had fielded tens of thousands of body armor vests to troops in Iraq that had not passed quality assurance testing by government auditors. He was also part of an Emmy-nominated documentary team that followed a group of Marine Corps officers from their first days of officer training to the battlefields of Iraq.

In 2008, Christian became Military.com's first embed with his return to Iraq, and featured his experiences on his blog, From The Front.

Raised in Charlottesville, Va., and a graduate of the University of Virginia, Christian lives on Capitol Hill with his wife Catherine, baby daughter Eliza, and his Jack Russell terriers Noor Whali and Banjo. When he's not sniffing around for the latest defense and military news, he likes to take advantage of any opportunity to slip out of town to go hunting, fishing or surfing.

Dustin Luther first hit the real estate scene when he founded Rain City Guide, a popular real estate blog that covers the Seattle market. Currently he runs an industry website, 4realz.net, that has led to him speaking before some of the most influential groups in real estate on issues related to blogging, social networking, and the impact that online technology will have on the industry.

As a speaker, Dustin is able to bridge the gap between what is possible on the web with what is practical for real estate professionals. His presentations are always fast moving, informative, entertaining and educational.

Not only has he been featured in the NY Times and the LA Times as a leader in using the internet to drive real estate business, but Dustin was also nominated by Inman News as one of 10 people to watch in 2008.

Bridget Magnus is a Realtor in Las Vegas. She developed a love for research in grad school, and brings her experience as a research analyst both to her career and to her writing. Bridget has been active in online communities since 1996, and has been blogging since 2003. She blogs on a variety of topics, including politics, real estate, politics, the economy, health/fitness, and random things she finds amusing. You can find her writing at www.TheModerateVoice.com, www.ShortWoman.com, and www.BridgetMagnus.com. Her other interests include reading, cooking, video-gaming, and Japanese language/culture.

Liz Mair is the online communications director with the Republican National Committee, where she is responsible for leading blogger outreach efforts, contributing to e-campaign and communications strategy, and producing content for the GOP.com blog. Before joining the RNC in December 2007, Liz was an independent political consultant, columnist and blogger, writing for publications including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, American Spectator and New York Sun, as well as at her own site, lizmair.com. She has consulted for various candidates and political organizations, both in the US and in the UK, where she lived for 10 years. Liz was previously a corporate lawyer in London.

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Rachel Masters is Vice President of Strategic Relationships for Ning, Inc., social networking service with a twist - it empowers people to create their own social websites and social networks. Previously Rachel was the Associate Director of Strategic Relationship and Business Development at Warner Music Group. In this role, she launched new relationships with innovative digital media companies such as YouTube. Prior to Warner Music Group, she was an Associate at StarVest Partner, L.P. a New York-based venture capital fund whose portfolio companies include NetSuite and ComparisonMarkets. Rachel was also a television producer at Cablevision, Fox and MTV Networks. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, where she was named a University Scholar and graduated cum laude and with High Honors. Rachel also received a MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Outside of the office she likes to ski down fresh powder, see live music and travel.

David Mastio is the founder and editor of BlogNetNews.com, a nonpartisan aggregator of the best state and local news and public affairs blogs. Before fleeing to the Web, Mastio was the youngest member of USA Today's editorial board, a Washington correspondent for The Detroit News, an editorial writer for The Virginian-Pilot, founding editorial-page editor of The Washington Examiner and a speechwriter for a member of the Cabinet. Mastio has written a guide to running online opinion sections for the National Conference of Editorial Writers and served fellowships at USA Today, the Knight Center for Digital Media and the Hoover Institution.

Gina McCauley was named to Essence magazine's list of the 25 Most Influential African-Americans of 2007 for her work on What About Our Daughters?, a blog dedicated to combating negative portrayals of African-American women in popular culture. She is the founder of Blogging While Brown, the first international conference for bloggers of colour, and Michelle Obama Watch, which follows the good, the bad and the ugly of the media's coverage of Michelle Obama. In addition to blogging, she is a freelance writer and her work as appeared in The Guardian, ESSENCE.com, and ESSENCE Magazine.

Becky McCray works with tourism-related businesses, nonprofits, and city governments on their web presence and grant funding. Her clients are based in the US and Africa. Becky speaks on small business issues across the midwest. She owns two small businesses and writes three blogs including the popular www.SmallBizSurvival.com

Jake McKee is an evangelist for online and offline community building, social media, and customer-company interaction. He has been working with online communities, fan groups, and consumer groups since the early days of the Internet, and has a rich background in Web development, community management, business strategy, and product development. Jake is the Principal at Ant's Eye View, a Dallas-based social media and customer engagement consultancy. In a past life, Jake was the Global Community Relations Specialist for the LEGO Company, where he spent five years on the front lines of customer-company interaction.

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Rob McNealy is a small business, entrepreneurship, and startup junkie. His passion is using social media to evangelize and promote small and low tech companies, a well as coaching entrepreneurs on his www.StartupStoryRadio.com podcast and blog. Besides doing social media marketing consulting through his marketing company www.ContrivedMedia.com, Rob has a strong background in construction and flooring so he started the www.AskAFloorGuy.com blog and podcast to keep himself firmly grounded in the low tech world.

Keith is the President of CoveritLive. Since its launch in late 2007, CoveritLive.com has been used by bloggers and mainstream media to provide live blogging and Q&A sessions to millions of readers around the world.

A 16-year sports mainstream media professional, Brooks is the owner of the SportsByBrooks website and has made weekly appearances on KNBC-TV and ESPN Radio (KSPN-AM) in Los Angeles.

Lionel Menchaca is a nearly 15-year Dell veteran and chief blogger at Direct2Dell, Dell’s main corporate blog. Since launching the blog in July 2006, Lionel helped expand it into Chinese, Spanish Norwegian and Japanese and continues to work to further extend Dell’s global presence. Before launching Dell’s blog, Lionel was one of the main architects behind Dell’s blog monitoring process begun in April 2006.

He works with a team within the company to coordinate activities and content across all of Dell’s social media initiatives including the Dell Community Forum and IdeaStorm. These initiatives have one thing in common: to open direct lines of communication between Dell employees and their customers to improve the products and services Dell offers.

Lionel also serves as a technologist to help Dell define new software to monitor and engage in conversations in the blogosphere, and to facilitate collaboration among the Dell teams that respond to customer feedback. He’s also been one of the principal leads in Dell’s efforts to build communities using Web 2.0 tools like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Delicious and more to augment Dell sites like the recently-launched DigitalNomads.com.

An avid fan of computer hardware, gadgets and Web 2.0 technology, his early career included a stint at quality assurance and tech support for game developer Origin Systems and hardware and advanced operating systems technical support at Dell.

Lionel earned a degree in archaeological studies from University of Texas. He lives in Round Rock, Texas, with his wife, Aileen, and two children, Louis and Mia.

Scott is a marketing and communications professional focused on the digital industry – specifically on social media. His career spans a number of industries such as healthcare, pharma, biotech, travel, automotive, tech, and communications, and includes a wide range of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of Scott’s clients include American Airlines, Audi, Starwood Hotels, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences, Boston Scientific, The Coca-Cola Company, Millipore, Motorola and Kraft Foods, as well as numerous small-cap and start-up ventures.

Scott is currently the head of social media for Ford Motor Company, where he holds the title Global Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager. While his role is based in the Corporate Communications area, he is a strategic advisor on all social media activities across the company. From blogger relations to marketing support, customer service to internal communications and more, social media touches many facets of the Ford business, and Scott is there to ensure it is consistent across all of them.

Prior to joining Ford, Scott was Consigliere for crayon, a strategic advisory group specializing in conversational marketing. Scott served as the primary point of contact for clients, where he led a number of strategically and tactically innovative ideas in social media.

Scott is also a noted expert on Sherlock Holmes and is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, the noted literary society; he hosts a podcast and writes a blog about the detective. He lives in Michigan with his wife and two young sons.

Louis heads Pheedo's ad sales team and oversees relationships with key advertisers including Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft and Dell. Prior to Pheedo, Louis played key online media buying and strategy roles at 24/7 Media, Sift Technologies, and, most recently NetHawk. At NetHawk Louis developed strategic online advertising initiatives and spearheaded all online media buying for software clients including Microsoft, Hyperion, and VeriSign.

Louis is an early RSS advertising pioneer. In August 2003, he was among the first to conduct a successful RSS ad campaign for a Fortune 500 advertiser.

With more than 14 years in the mortgage industry, Mike has the ability to find the programs and loans that best fit his clients needs. Mike writes a daily blog, "Mike's Minute". He's a consumer advocate against Mortgage Fraud and Foreclosure Scams. Mike's writings have garnered national attention on numerous platforms including Zillow.com and Trulia.com and Lenderama. Mike is a frequent guest as a mortgage expert on local television and radio shows. He also holds educational seminars on a regular basis. Mike was raised here in the Bay Area, and still lives in Concord with his family. He enjoys motorcycling and sport touring, hockey, fine wines, racing, and Porsches

Steve Mullen is managing editor of The Bakersfield Californian, supervising the news-gathering operations of the 70-person newsroom. The Californian's reporters and editors maintain more than two dozen staff blogs on diverse subjects including breaking news, health, high school sports and local business. Bakersfield.com includes more than 1,150 blogs, and more than 18,000 users have created profiles on The Californian's blogging and social networking platform.

A serial entrepreneur, Edward "Ted" Murphy has founded six companies since 1994. Murphy's latest venture, IZEA operates a variety of social media properties including PayPerPost, the world's largest Consumer Generated Advertising Network. Founded in June of 2006, IZEA has raised over $10 million in venture funding from leading venture capitalists including Draper Fischer Jurvetson.

Murphy's creative prowess and passion for the unconventional has earned him the ear of some of the world's largest marketing organizations including FOX, Bombardier, General Motors and Disney. His efforts have received national recognition, including A/V Multimedia Producer Magazine's "Top 100 Multimedia Producers" for two consecutive years. In 2006 Murphy's viral campaign created for the launch of PayPerPost was inducted into Marketing Sherpa's Viral Marketing Hall of Fame. Murphy is a prominent visionary, speaking and presenting to marketing and Internet professionals around the world.

Host and producer of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal.

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Living and breathing the automotive world was a happy accidental career for Michelle Naranjo. Her site, missmotormouth.com, is an analysis, critique & celebration of everything with wheels. She is also Contributing Editor at Mota.net and a Yahoo Knowledge Partner in the Cars category. Previously she was the director of the motors program at i-soldit.com & is well versed in compliance of online car sales, works closely with eBay Motors, Cars.com & Autotrader. Someday she would love to be a Rally driver.

Geoff Nelson is co-founder of Buzz Corps, www.buzzcorps.com, a hands-on word-of-mouth, social media and influencer marketing consultantcy that builds mutually beneficial relationships between influencers and corporate clients that include HP, AMD, LasikPlus and many others. Geoff has more than eighteen years of experience in brand programs, both online and offline, measurement and analysis, business development, project management, and formidable list of corporate credentials.

Rob Neppell is founder and president of Kithbridge, Inc. (see booth 310) and is best known online by the pseudonym "N.Z. Bear". In 2002, Rob created the first and still-definitive blog tracking system, The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, and over the past six years has earned a reputation as one of the key innovators in the new world of weblogs and citizens' media. For his efforts online, Rob was awarded the first-ever “Blogger of the Year” award in March 2007 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and is a member of The Heritage Foundation's New Media Advisory Board. Rob is co-founder with Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds of Porkbusters, and spearheaded the "Secret Hold" effort which resulted in the passage of the historic Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. In September 2007, in recognition of his work as founder of The Victory Caucus, Rob was honored to be invited to the White House with a small group of bloggers to spend an hour with President Bush discussing the war in Iraq and the role of online media in the educating the public about the conflict.

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Deborah Ng is a professional blogger and Community Manager for BlogTalkRadio, the popular social radio community. Her personal blog, Freelance Writing Jobs, is the number one online community for freelance writers and one of *Writers Digest's 101 Best Sites for Writers. Prior to working for BlogTalkRadio, Deb blogged for a variety ofnetworks and corporations including Oxygen Media, b5Media, About.com,Performancing and more.

Alana was formerly the head producer for AOL's FanHouse, interim blog editor at Yahoo! Sports, and adviser at Ballhype. She has blogged as Miss Gossip since 2006 and is currently working at Yardbarker.

Michelle Nicolosi is Assistant Managing Editor in charge of SeattleP-I, which hosts more than 250 staff and reader blogs. Nicolosi was previously the editor of Online Journalism Review; she also taught journalism and helped integrate online training into the journalism curriculum at the University of Southern California. Nicolosi has also worked as as product manager at the idealab! Company Hompage.com, and as a reporter at the Orange County Register, where she was a lead reporter on the Pulitzer Prize winning Fertility Fraud series.

Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, an industry leader in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services. TopRank provides a holistic mix of online marketing expertise including: search engine and social media marketing, blogging and online public relations.

A veteran internet marketer, Odden has worked with an impressive roster of clients including: Northwest Airlines, HP, PRWeb, BizFilings and McKesson.

Odden is one of 25 online marketing experts featured in the book, “Online Marketing Heroes” published by Wiley and has been cited for his search marketing expertise by The Economist, U.S. News and numerous industry publications such as iMedia Connection and MediaPost. Advertising Age has ranked Odden’s Online Marketing Blog as one of the top marketing blogs on the web.

As a speaker and a trainer, Odden was selected to develop content for the DMA Search Engine Marketing Certification Advanced Course and presents at: DMA, PRSA, Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld Pubcon, Search Insider Summit and OMMA Global conferences.

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Patrick O'Keefe is a writer, web developer, and community administrator. He is the founder and owner of the iFroggy Network (ifroggy.com) and the author of "Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards" (managingonlineforums.com), a practical guide to managing online communities. He writes for multiple blogs, including YanksBlog.com, ManagingCommunities.com, and Bad Boy Blog.com, and maintains a personal blog at patrickokeefe.com.

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Jennifer Openshaw is a nationally recognized financial commentator, entrepreneur and author who appears regularly on Fox Business Network, contributes to Dow Jones’ MarketWatch, serves as AOL’s Family Financial Editor and hosts ABC Radio’s Winning Advice. In 1999, Jennifer founded Women’s Financial Network – a content, community and brokerage site for women since sold to Siebert Financial -- and was named one of the Internet’s 25 Rising Stars.

Today, Jennifer serves as President and Co-Founder of WeSeed, a networking site designed to bring the stock market to the 100 million Americans who don’t yet invest. WeSeed believes consumers are smarter than they think and can be successful by following the Peter Lynch principle of starting with the brands and products they already know and trust, rather than technical data and jargon.

Jennifer is frequently sought for her expertise in marketing to women and has advised such leading companies as Microsoft, Allstate, and LendingTree. She is author of the new book, The Millionaire Zone (Hyperion), which underscores the WeSeed theme of building wealth by leveraging what you already know and love. CNBC’s Jim Cramer said of Openshaw’s book: If I had The Millionaire Zone when I started, it would have been a straight line, a virtual fast lane to millionaire status.”

Scott Ott's daily news satire site, ScrappleFace.com, has entertained and informed more than 10 million visitors since he started it in 2002. His book, "Axis of Weasels," set the standard for fake-but-true news, emulated by Dan Rather and The New York Times. With conservative politics, strong moral values and dynamic presentation skills, Scott Ott offers fresh insight on top issues of the day and on the human condition for all time. He brings a combination of clean, stress-busting humor and passion that prompts personal change. His background as a customer service trainer, pastor and Wal-Mart People Greeter assures you that Scott Ott knows how to deliver values and smiles.

Co-edited The New Media Frontier with John Mark Reynolds, published by Crossway. Student at Talbot School of Theology & Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Cal State Long Beach. Certificate in Christian Apologetics from Biola University.

Elisa Camahort Page is a co-founder and COO of BlogHer, managing its events, marketing and corporate operations. A marketing executive with 18 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Elisa left her life in high tech product management to go online and join the social media world, and to help companies go there too.

She co-founded BlogHer as a labor of love in 2005 with Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, and in two short years BlogHer has grown to be the number-one guide to and source for blogs by women. BlogHer serves its mission of creating opportunities for education, exposure, community and economic empowerment with its web community, sold-out conferences and advertising network that now features over 2,200 network members.

Elisa was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging and currently writes nine blogs. She blogs at various times about marketing, health issues, green and eco-conscious living, being a vegan, and reality TV talent shows like American Idol and Project Runway! She’s a frequent public speaker in the areas of business blogging and online community, and has been published frequently, including her monthly column for the Silicon Valley Metro, Silicon Veggie.

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Jeremy Pepper is the manager of global public relations at Boingo Wireless, Inc., the global market leader in Wi-Fi. At Boingo, Pepper is responsible for global public relations, traditional and social media relations. Pepper is also involved in the marketing communication programs for Boingo, as well as reputation management and crisis communications.

Prior to Boingo, Pepper worked at one of the world’s largest public relations firms, advising Fortune 500 clients such as Cisco, General Motors, Verizon Wireless, among others, on social media strategies and tactics, and helping them launch social media programs and initiatives around the world. Previously, Pepper had founded his own public relations firm, working with clients on melding social media and public relations, as well as working in-house for a photo startup acquired by Eastman Kodak and other public relations agencies.

Pepper has more than a decade's worth of experience in high-technology, consumer technology and consumer public relations and social media, and is one of the earliest and well-known PR bloggers and social media strategists.

A Canadian geek, David Peralty got his start guest blogging for Darren Rowse, and then went on to become the Communications Manager at Bloggy Network where he worked as a full time blogger for two years before moving to Splashpress Media for another year.

With three years of full time blogging experience in various blog networks, David has learned a lot regarding the business of blogging. Currently, David writes on Xfep.com about all that he learned as a full time blogger, and his continuing struggles to pay his bills through online work.

JAY PERKINS is an associate professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University. He specializes in teaching students how to find and use governmental documents and how to cross-check Internet sources. He has taught investigative, governmental and computer-assisted reporting classes at LSU for the past 25 years. He also teaches classes in the summer in the United Kingdom, has conducted seminars for reporters in Zambia twice, and frequently lectures on using Internet databases and sources to foreign journalists who are visiting the States on sponsored tours. Prior to coming to LSU, he was a political reporter in Washington, D.C., for the Associated Press.

DAVID D. PERLMUTTER is a professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Kansas. He received his BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has served as a Board member of the American Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit. A documentary photographer, he is the author or editor of seven books on political communication and persuasion: Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Framing Icons of Outrage in International Crises (Praeger, 1998); Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage (St. Martin's, 1999); (ed.) The Manship School Guide to Political Communication (LSU Press, 1999); Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement (Sage, 2000); Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine, 1949-1973 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); (ed., with John Hamilton) From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology (LSU Press, 2007), and Blogwars: The New Political Battleground (Oxford, 2008). He has also written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as over 150 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC and, most recently, The Daily Show. He is editor of the blog of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas (http://www.doleinstituteblog.org/) and his own blog about online politics, http://policybyblog.squarespace.com/.

Lisa Picarille is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Revenue Magazine, The Performance Marketing Standard. She is responsible for developing all editorial content for the print magazine and the website (www.RevenueToday.com). In addition to setting the editorial tone for the publication, Lisa oversees production, sales and distribution of Revenue Magazine. She also co-hosts the popular Affiliate Thing podcast with Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins and is part of the GeekCast.FM gang. Lisa is a veteran journalist who began her career more than 20 years ago as a professional sports writer in Boston and has also headed the news departments of major high tech news organizations including Wired.com, TechWeb.com, TechTV.com and CRN.com. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, CRM Magazine, PCWeek, MacWeek, Computerworld and InfoWorld.

Lisa is a frequent speaker at industry events including Affiliate Summit, Web 2.0, Ad:Tech, LinkShare Symposium, Online Market World, and eComXpo. She has won several journalism awards and most recently won LinkShare’s Golden Link Award as Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate. She was also recently elected to the formation advisory board of the Performance Marketing Alliance.

CEO and founder Wendy Piersall has over 8 years' experience working in a home office & Sparkplugging is Wendy's third home-based business. Her past experience includes several entrepreneurial endeavors, as well as holding two Business Development positions with Socrates.com and Paladin, a marketing recruiting firm. She also currently writes for the Entrepreneur.com Blog Network and resides in west suburban Chicagoland with her husband and three children.

Anne Plese is responsible for developing and executing Cisco’s world-wide go-to-market strategies and for Cisco in the data center market – a US $86B market.

Plese holds a leadership role in expanding Cisco’s traditional marketing tactics and strategies around how Cisco’s brings new technology to new and existing markets. This includes integrating creative and measurable strategies around social media, word-of-mouth marketing, and blogging with traditional investments across the marketing mix. Plese launched one of Cisco’s most successful online blog communities today: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/ averaging over 100,000 RSS hits over the past year.

Plese originally joined Cisco in 1999, holding senior management positions within Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group and corporate marketing organization. In 2006, Plese became an authorized Duct Tape Marketing coach.

Previously, Plese held senior management positions in the high-tech and financial services industries, with over 15 years in the enterprise, SMB, and service provider market segments. Plese graduated from Oregon State University a really long time ago…with a degree in business administration.

Mark Potts is a leader in the development of innovative content and business strategies and products in online and print media. An entrepreneur and consultant, he co-founded Backfence Inc., a pioneer in the field of user-generated, hyperlocal citizens media. He created one of the first electronic newspaper prototypes in the early 1990s at The Washington Post, and then co-founded the newspaper company’s digital division, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive.

Potts served on the founding team of the @Home Network, where he led the creation of the first consumer broadband programming service. He also was Chief Product Officer for Cahners Business Information (now Reed Business Information), the nation’s largest trade publisher, where he managed Cahners Digital and oversaw the development of 120 trade magazine Web sites, include Variety.com and PublishersWeekly.com.

As a consultant, Potts has developed strategies and products for The Washington Post Co., Cox Communications, New Century Network, Classified Ventures, Disney’s Infoseek/Go Network, Tribe Networks, HealthCentral and many others. He most recently oversaw the redesign of Philly.com, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News Web site. Formerly a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and the Associated Press, he is the co-author of two business books, The Leading Edge and Dirty Money. He blogs about the intersection of media and the online world at www.recoveringjournalist.com.

John Pozadzides is Chief Marketing Officer for Layered Technologies, and CEO of iFusion Labs, the company that brought you Woopra. He is also a prolific blogger, having authored over 1,200 articles in two years on his popular blog at OneMansBlog.com.

As an early Web pioneer John founded HTMLHelp.com and lobbied for usability and accessibility while helping to educate and develop Web standards. In recognition of those contributions HTMLHelp.com was inducted into the W3C's CSS Hall of Fame on the 10 year anniversary of its launch.

John's leadership experience ranges from small startups to multi-national corporations, and as a recognized expert in the field he routinely lectures on Web hosting, Internet architecture, Security, and Blogging.

I've been working in the Internet industry since 1995. I've done so along side some of the smartest and most creative people in the industry on the development of web applications, marketing systems and back office tools for a wide variety of industries from retail to health care and everything in between. Most of my career has been centered on developing web based marketing, productivity, analytic and listing tools for the real estate industry including the development of some of the web's first search able listing sites. I crafted the idea for MLBroadcast.Com in 2006 along with my business partners because I feel that syndication of listings and their enhancements are one the most effective ways to expose content and generate dynamic search engine results. Mike's Corner is a blog dedicated to helping real estate professionals get the most out of the web 2.0 and social media. Our goal is to explode myths, share some knowledge and engage in what has become referred to as the RE.net in a meaningful and mutually profitable way.

An ex-programmer and CIS professor, Lucretia Pruitt (@GeekMommy) left the glamorous world of academia for the fast-paced world of being a stay-at-home-Mom. But once a geek, always a geek. Her blogging habit started back in 1998 and she's had one or more ongoing blogs since. After years wading about in Social Media she discovered Twitter and the unique environment enticed her to jump in both feet first. Now listed on moms.alltop.com and twitterati.alltop.com, her current collaboration with WalMart - as one of their "11 Moms" - was brought about via Twitter.

Schlomo Rabinowitz has been creating and helping individuals and companies through the world of Online Video for the last 5 years. Before that, he has produced Old Media for smallish brands such as PBS and USA Networks.

His personal site is http://schlomo.tv His professional work can be seen throughout the web with companies like BAVC, blip.tv, CNet Networks and others.

He is a Cancer with a Bad Moon Rising

Kyra Reed is Co-Founder of MarKyr Media, a Social Media PR/Marketing Agency that provides organic Online Reputation Management solutions for the Tech and Entertainment industries. Her services focus on Reputation Management, Social Networking, Community Development, Blog Consulting, Personal Branding and Education. Kyra possesses more than 15 years experience in small business marketing and music industry management. Prior to co-founding MarKyr Media, she was an Independent Consultant in the Web 2.0 Digital Music Convergence space. As Music Manager of Windup Records artist Stars of Track and Field and other bands Saturna, and The Upsidedown, Kyra gained valuable insight on the ways in which Social Media has impacted artists and labels. With this knowledge, she provided new media strategy to her bands and built web presences for The Roxy Theatre and The Monterey Pop Festival. Kyra is the author of Blog 101, a beginners guide to blogging. Her passionate writings on Social Media PR and Marketing can be found both on her personal blog, Kyrareed.com.

Byrne Reese is a long time technology blogger and entrepreneur. It was his experience in blogging that led him to join Six Apart, the company that pioneered the blogging industry, as a Product Manager. In the four years that he has been there he has product managed TypePad, the Platform Technology group, Advertising and Movable Type. Byrne played a key role in the launch of Movable Type 4 and of the Movable Type Open Source Project. He has a long history of supporting and contributing to open source projects as well and advocated heavily for open web standards like OpenID and the Atom Publishing Protocol.

John Mark Reynolds is the founder and director of the Torrey Honors Institute, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, at Biola University. Dr. Reynolds lectures frequently on ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, home-schooling and cultural trends. He regularly appears on radio talk shows, including the Hugh Hewitt Show, and actively blogs at www.ScriptoriumDaily.com on cultural issues, politics, education, and philosophy.

Gary Rosenzweig has been producing Web content since 1995, including video podcasts and Flash games. His company, CleverMedia, publishes dozens of Web sites with original games and video. He has written 12 mass-market books on multimedia and game development. Gary is the producer and host of MacMost, a video podcast for Mac, iPhone and iPod users. He has also produced several other video podcasts over the last three years, including Podcast Salad, Secrets of Y and The Daily Vlog.

Gary's three main blogs (http://macmost.com, http://developerdispatch.com and http://flashgameu.com) are each monetized in a different way.

Daniel is a REALTOR near Charlottesville, Virginia. Daniel began his real estate career in 2003, after graduating from the University of Delaware. Daniel began blogging in 2005 as a way of informing his clients and customers about the Charlottesville area. Since discovering the power of blogging, Daniel has tried to share the power of social media with others. He views social media as a powerful tool that serves to strengthen the relationship between real estate agents and their customers and clients. A strong believer in education and professional development, Daniel is eager to share what he has learned with others and to show agents how social media can improve their business and at the same time enhance their profession.

Darren Rowse is best known for his blog ProBlogger - a community centered around helping bloggers improve their blogs and find ways of building an income from the medium.

Darren has been a full time blogger since 2005 on blogs like Digital Photography School (a blog helping digital camera owners to get out of Auto mode) and has recently co-authored the book 'ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income' (Wiley) with Chris Garrett.

Darren is also one of the co-founders of b5media - a blog network with over 350 blogs.

Darren's passion is helping bloggers learn how to reach their potential as bloggers and he looks forward to connecting with bloggers of all stages in their development at Blog World Expo.

Steve Rubel is a digital marketer with over 15 years experience. He currently serves as SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman - the world's largest independent PR firm.

Steve is charged with helping Edelman clients identify key insights, trends and emerging digital platforms that can be applied in marketing programs. He also explores these topics on his well-read Micro Persuasion weblog and in a bi-weekly column for AdAge Digital.

In addition, Steve is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: The Forbes.com Web Celeb 25, PC Magazine's 100 Favorite Blogs, Media Magazine's Media 100, the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100 and the CNET News.com Blog 100.

Prior to joining Edelman in 2006, Rubel worked in a variety of communications positions in corporate, non-profit and small/mid-sized PR firms.

Michael works as the VP of Community for GasPedal, where he works as the community organizer for the Blog Council. This is a community specifically dedicated to the needs of blogging in a corporate environment.

Michael’s expertise lies in helping companies use social media to tap into the positive power of social media. His mantra: “It’s about the people, not the technology.”

Muhammad Saleem has been actively participating in, and writing about, various social media communities for over 3 years now. In the process he has written for a large number of high profile sites including Pronet Advertising, CenterNetworks, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, ProBlogger, CopyBlogger, Read/WriteWeb, Mashable, and others, both in an academic sense (on how to understand the anthropology of these communities) and from a marketing standpoint. He has also been interviewed by multiple radio shows and marketing-related blogs/sites on topics related to social media. Muhammad regularly speaks at conferences on the subjects of social media optimization and marketing and their increasing importance to businesses at all levels.

Felix Salmon first started blogging (although it wasn’t called that at the time) when he joined Bridge News in 1999 as Latin America Editor. He would link to news stories on the wire, add snarky commentary, and do the whole thing on a fixed page in reverse chronological order.

In 2000, Felix started handcoding his own blog at geocities.com; it wasn’t long until felixsalmon.com (his personal blog) and memefirst.com (a group blog) were formed. By that time, he had been fired gone freelance, and he was careful to blog about anything but finance: that was the stuff he was paid to write.

It wasn’t until 2006 that Felix embraced his econoblogospheric destiny, launching economonitor.com for Roubini Global Economics and glorying in the title of Content Strategist. After being fired going freelance one more time, he briefly hosted his finance blog at felixsalmon.com, before originating Market Movers at portfolio.com in 2007.

Sarah has been an Army wife for six years now. Her husband is currently on his second deployment to Iraq. Last time he didn't have running water, but this time, he gleefully notes, he "pees in Saddam's toilet." Sarah spends her time on one of two activities: 1) blogging at SpouseBUZZ.com and TryingToGrok.com, or 2) crocheting afghans for wounded troops and knitting preemie caps for the local hospital. She's learning to knit with the laptop balanced on her knees so she can do both at the same time.

Jan Schaffer, former Business Editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and one of the nation’s leading thinkers in the journalism reform movement. She left daily journalism in 1994 to lead pioneering journalism initiatives in the areas of civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism and citizen media ventures. She launched J-Lab in 2002 at the University of Maryland’s College of Journalism to help newsrooms use innovative computer technologies to engage people in important public issues. As a federal court reporter, she helped write a series that won freedom for a man wrongly convicted of five murders. The stories led to the civil rights convictions of six Philadelphia homicide detectives and won several national journalism awards, including the 1978 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service.

From Unemployment to eight figures in only four years, Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker is a blogger's "American dream." Starting with absolutely, no capital he educated himself and began building ecommerce sites to earn revenue. During this time he started blogging his experiences at Shoemoney.com and then used the blog to spring board new companies like Auctionads, which had one of the most impressive launches of any online advertising company ever. Jeremy continues to launch new startups and also chronicles his adventures on his blog.

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Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has two sons, Patrick, from a previous marriage, and Milan. He currently works for Fast Company as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

Doc is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and one of the world's best-known bloggers. He holds fellowships at both the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At Berkman he heads ProjectVRM, a development effort aimed at giving customers more power in the marketplace. At CITS he is working on a project to create better understanding of the Internet as a form of public infrastructure. He also heads his own consultancy, The Searls Group.

Elie, "The Embedded NBA Correspondent," has been covering the NBA since 1997. He has worked in television news (for CBS and FOX) and online outlets such as AOL's FanHouse, HoopsHype and the LA Daily News.

Faiz Shakir is the research director at the Center for American Progress and serves as editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the Georgetown Law Center. Faiz previously worked as a research associate for the Democratic National Committee; as a legislative aide to Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee; and as a communications aide in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. His writings have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Florida Today, and Salon. Faiz has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and CNBC television, among other places, and has been a guest on many radio shows.

Matthew Sheffield is president of Dialog New Media, a marketing firm specializing in political technology for campaigns, non-profits, and businesses. Working with the Media Research Center, he created NewsBusters.org in 2005 as the first-ever collaboration between a major Washington policy group and the blogosphere.

In 2006, Sheffield launched "NewsBusted," a twice-weekly fake news comedy show that is one of the most popular political vlogs on the web.

A weekly technology columnist for the Washington Times, Sheffield and his work have been quoted and cited by every major American newspaper and cable news channel.

Mike Shinoda is a Japanese American musician, record producer and visual artist from Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his vocal and musical endeavors with his band Linkin Park and solo project Fort Minor. Linkin Park is currently touring in support of double-platinum-selling album MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT and new top-ten hit single "Leave Out All The Rest.” Shinoda’s band has won two Grammy Awards, sold more than 50 million albums (their Diamond-Certified debut Hybrid Theory has sold more than 18 million copies alone), and built a die-hard worldwide fanbase through relentless touring and powerful online presence. According to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), Linkin Park was 2007’s best-selling rock band, with MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT moving 4.8 million units worldwide. The band’s charity organization, Music For Relief, has provided relief efforts in the wake of natural disasters worldwide, and climate crisis education efforts. The organization is currently focusing on post-earthquake reconstruction in the Sichuan area in China.

Shinoda was the youngest of his graduating class from Art Center College of Design in 1998, with a B.A. in Illustration. He has a hand in most artistic facets of Linkin Park's print and online imagery. In 2004, Shinoda started a college scholarship at his alma mater, and proceeds from majority of his individual artistic endeavors go to this scholarship. Shinoda’s artwork has been on display in various gallery exhibitions, most notably “Diamonds, Spades, Hearts, Clubs” at Gallery 1988 (featuring collaborative artwork with Gary Baseman, graffiti artist SEEN, DALEK, Greg “Craola” Simkins, and Linkin Park’s Mr. Hahn), and “Glorious Excess (Born)” at the Japanese American National Museum. The second installment of the “Glorious Excess” exhibit will be on display in January 2009.

Mike can be found online at www.mikeshinoda.com and www.linkinpark.com.

Nicole is a European pioneer with a passion for digital rights, social media and the way technology is revolutionising how we live and interact with each other. She has an eagle eye for detail and a talent for (beta) testing your products, ideas, business plans, and other things related to social media and the impact you can have.

Never shy of 'expressing difficult truths' or offering up stingingly constructive criticism, she is certainly cruel to be kind (http://crueltobekind.org), but leaves you feeling glad you asked for her help. As the queen of the pre-conference podcast, she is a familiar face at major tech and social media events in Europe.

When she's not extending her own personal blogging empire, Nicole enjoys consulting, teaching and speaking on how the online world can benefit business.

Roger L. Simon has been blogging since 2003 and is the co-founder and CEO of Pajamas Media. He is the author of 10 novels, including the eight prize-winning Moses Wine detective novels. He is also a screenwriter who received an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of Isaac Singer's "Enemies: A Love Story" in 1989. He taught screenwriting at the American Film Institute and Sundance Institute and served on the board of the Writers Guild of America. He is a former president of the West Coast branch of PEN and a former vice president of the International Association of Crime Writers. His first non-fiction book – "Blacklisting Myself: A Hollywood Apostate In An Age of Terror" -- will be published in January.

Ruby Sinreich founded OrangePolitics.org in 2003 to encourage residents of Orange County, NC to get involved in local politics by offering informed, progressive perspectives on local and regional issues. Active participants on the blog include local elected officials, community leaders, nascent and veteran activists, and a smattering of journalists brave enough to share their thoughts online.

Professionally, Ruby specializes in strategies that connect people to each other, sometimes known as “network-centric advocacy,” “social media,” “Web 2.0,” or “grassroots organizing,” depending upon what type of geek one is. She has helped hundreds of progressive local, statewide, national, and international nonprofits use technology more effectively in service of their educational, movement-building, and political missions.

Ruby currently works as the Co-Director of Communications at the 93-year-old Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith organization working for a world of peace and justice through active nonviolence.

Co-host of The Basketball Jones NBA podcast, J.E. Skeets has written for Deadspin, AOL Sports' FanHouse, and currently, Yahoo! Sports' "Ball Don't Lie" blog. He lives in Toronto, ON.

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Brian Solis, an avid speaker, is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and social media agency in Silicon Valley. Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes PR and tech comments and articles to industry sites and publications. Solis has been actively writing about new PR and the idea of PR 2.0 since the mid 90s to discuss how the Web was redefining the communications industry. He has dedicated his free time to helping PR professionals adapt to the new fusion of PR, Web marketing, and community relations.

Pam Spaulding is the editor and publisher of Pam's House Blend, honored as Best LGBT Blog in the 2005 and 2006 Weblog Awards. A regular contributor to the progressive blogs Pandagon and The Bilerico Project, Spaulding has also guest blogged on Firedoglake, Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory on Salon, OurChart.com, The Rude Pundit, and Americablog. Spaulding received the 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award from The Monette-Horwitz Trust for making significant contributions toward the eradication of homophobia. She lives Durham, North Carolina with her wife Kate; they legally married in Canada in 2004.

Pam's House Blend covered the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a member of the credentialed press pool.

Stephan M. Spencer, M.Sc., is president of Netconcepts, a leading natural search marketing firm. Clients include Home Shopping Network, AOL, Verizon SuperPages.com, Discovery Channel, and REI, to name a few.

Stephan is an author of the upcoming O'Reilly book "The Art of SEO" with co-authors Rand Fishkin and Jessie Stricchiola, due out in 2009. Stephan is also a Senior Contributor to MarketingProfs.com and to Practical Ecommerce, a monthly columnist on Search Engine Land, and he’s contributed to Multichannel Merchant, DM News, Catalog Age, Catalog Success, Building Online Business, Unlimited, and NZ Marketing magazine among others. He is co-author of the analyst report "The State of Search Engine Marketing 1.0 - New Strategies for Successful Cataloging" published by Catalog Age.

Stephan is a frequent speaker at Internet conferences around the globe (including Berlin, London, Toronto, Santiago, Auckland, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and places in between) for organizations such as the DMA, the AMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, IncisiveMedia (Search Engine Strategies), IQPC and IIR.

Stephan is an avid blogger. He blogs primarily on his own blog, Stephan Spencer's Scatterings, at www.stephanspencer.com. But he also blogs on the Searchlight Blog (part of the CNET Blog Network), the Shop.org Blog, Natural Search Blog, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, MarketingProfs Daily Fix, Changes For Good, and "Google, I Suggest...".

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Liz Strauss works with businesses, universities, and service professionals in the UK and US who want to identify their customer demographics and build stronger relationships with customers though social media and influencer marketing. She has developed working relationships with publishers in the UK, Australia, Europe, Canada, and the USA, and served as VP of product development and International Publisher for Sundance Publishing. Liz is a founder of SOBCon -- Biz School for Bloggers, the annual online business and social media conference in Chicago. She is also author of Successful-Blog.com and LizStrauss.com.

Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, and Creator/Executive Producer of the popular viral video French Maid TV. He is one of the few individuals who have been successful in both new media/podcasting and traditional media. As one of the industry’s most successful viral video producers, his online videos total over 30 million downloads and his productions constantly skyrocket to the top of the charts. In addition to creating online viral videos, Tim is a sought after speaker and award-winning short form director. His speaking credits include Digital Hollywood, Mac World, New Media Expo, and Podcast Academy. Tim has produced short and long form TV for Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros., ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The WB, UPN, Fine Living, Food Network, Game Show Network, Nickelodeon, Spike TV and many others. Tim sits on the Advisory Board of the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), an industry association focused on providing advertising and audience measurement standards for episodic and downloadable media. He resides in Los Angeles and is represented by UTA.

Mario Sundar has over 5 years experience in marketing leadership, managing projects for Fortune 50 companies. He currently works at LinkedIn as Community Evangelist where he handles user communication related to social media ­ from running LinkedIn¹s corporate blog to telling their user stories, on video. In May 2006, he launched his blog, Marketing Nirvana, where he discusses marketing in a socially networked world.

Matt Sussman lives just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. He live blogs sporting events at Deadspin and writes for BC Magazine. His works can also be seen at SportsByBrooks, the Toledo Free Press and his own blog, The Futon Report. There's also a full time job in there somewhere. Please don't tell his bosses.

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Prior to Allvoices, Amra was a partner at Sevin Rosen Funds from 2000-2006 focusing on investment opportunities in communications infrastructure. Before Sevin Rosen, Amra was a product marketing director at Ascend Communications and working in sales and business development positions at Lucent Technologies. Amra started Allvoices after a trip to Pakistan in 2007 where she was inspired by the individuals she met and wanted individuals, no matter where they were in the world, to share their experiences. Amra has an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of New South Wales, Australia.

Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Intuitive Life Business Blog, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents.

Michael Tippett founded The Webpool Syndicate, one of Canada’s first internet companies, in 1995. He has worked internationally. Recently he lived in New York and served as General Manager at Register.com (one of Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 50). In 2005 Tippett founded NowPublic, a commercial descendent of BlueHereNow.com, which in 2002 became the first to combine cameraphone photographs with breaking news events.

Michael is a member of the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism Advisory Board and is on the Board of CABINET, a Vancouver-based arts organization.

Robyn Tippins is a community advocate with almost 10 years experience in the social media space. From her early days marketing her own small business using forums and email lists, to blogging, podcasting, vlogging and video game immersion, she’s often used social networking to engage and communicate. In her current role, Robyn oversees the community of external developers on the Yahoo! Developer Network. She blogs at sleepyblogger.com and gamingandtech.com, in addition to the YDN blog. Her book, co-authored with Miranda Marquit, “Got Community?”, will be released in 2009.

Robyn has blogged for blog networks and corporations, podcasted for small and large businesses, worked closely with social networking sites, and advised Fortune 500 companies on social media strategy, WOM and community. Her podcasts feature some of the web’s most interesting and well-known Web 2.0 experts in fields such as VoIP, Technology, Open Source, Marketing, Social Networking, Video Games and Blogging.

She finds her greatest joys in moments away from her computer, spending time with her husband and four children, ages 3 to 10. She and her family reside in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Ben Tribbett is best known as the blogger 'Not Larry Sabato,' the No. 1 state-level blog in the country in 2006 and 2007. Before joining New Media Strategies, Tribbett worked as a Virginia political consultant. He was a staffer or adviser to more than half of the campaigns in the last decade to successfully unseat Republican legislative incumbents in Virginia. The Virginian Pilot called Tribbett 'a popular, swami-like figure'; the Charlottesville Weekly called him 'Virginia's newest political star'; the Washington Post's Marc Fisher said he was 'altering the dynamics of state political campaigns'; and in the American Journalism Review, Tribbett was cited as a rare blogger that added 'new information to the mix' for political reporters.

Lynn Truong started out at Grey Worldwide and CBS/King World creating and implementing national ad campaigns. Having experience on the client side makes Lynn especially prepared to be on the sales side pitching to advertisers. As Sales Director for Killer Aces Media, she has managed to get Wise Bread an unparalleled RPM for blogs.

Jim Turner is the leader of the One By One Media team and it was his vision that began the business in 2004. Jim is a well-respected professional blogger, mentoring others to become professional bloggers and leading companies through successful online campaigns. Jim is a leader in the new industry of social media and business blogging, and is well connected in advertising, public relations, marketing and other business circles.

Jeff has over twenty years experience as both a successful entrepreneur and a senior executive in a large corporation.

As company founder and CEO he led J.J. Grace, Inc. (dba AdOut, TheSpecDept.com, TSA Design Group) to the Inc. Magazine list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America and the following year won Cisco's Growing With Technology Award recognizing innovative companies networked for growth.

As a senior executive and Group President of Vertis, Mr. Turner brought the needed vision and leadership to a highly diversified corporate Group and integrated the operations, the focus and the spirit of that Group back into the organizational mainstream.

Throughout his career, Jeff has excelled at bringing extraordinary vision, creativity and innovative solutions to challenging situations.

John T. Unger is the founder, lead author and developer at TypePad Hacks, an alternative knowledge base and design shop for TypePad blogs. He is a member of the TypePad Customer Advisory Board and has written guest posts for Six Apart's Everything TypePad blog. TypePad Hacks is the leading expert in custom design and coding on the TypePad platform. Clients include Church of the Customer blog, Kathy Sierra, and Michelle Lamar's White Trash Mom blog. As a result of his work with TypePad, Unger has also been asked for feedback by AdaptiveBlue, AddThis, Cocomment, FeedBurner and others and has done consulting work with PayPal and Etsy.

Lorelle VanFossen, of Lorelle on WordPress, is known as a "blog evangelist" and number one fan of WordPress. A public speaker, instructor, writer, and consultant on web strategies, content generation, community building, web design, and blogging, she's known for her dynamic presentations that deliver the facts in a "kick-ass" fashion. Blogging and web publishing since 1994, Lorelle shows businesses and educational institutions how they can tweak and focus their technology to make their business more efficient, more profitable, and more user-friendly.

Gary Vaynerchuk, self-trained wine expert, is revolutionizing the wine industry. His blog, Wine Library TV, boasts a cult-like following resulting from his enthusiastic, unconventional, and often irreverent wine commentary. In the name of “expanding one’s palate”, Gary convinced Conan O’Brien to lick salted rocks and shared samples of dirt and grass with Ellen Degeneres. With a wealth of knowledge and an entrepreneurial spirit, Gary rebranded the family business as Wine Library. Within a five year time period, Wine Library grew from a $4 million dollar business to a $45 million business. What raised Gary’s notoriety even more than his business acumen was his foresight. Inspired by sites such as youtube.com and facebook.com, Gary leveraged technology to reach an untapped audience. His daily 20 minute webcasts caught the attention of a demographic new to wine and eager to learn. Within a short time, beer sales were outpaced by wine. While his youthful following broke down barriers in the wine industry, the business world (and Web 2.0) admired Gary for creating a new generation of branding, focusing on the internet.

Mark Verheiden was Co-Executive Producer of the Peabody Award winning television series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, screenwriter of the Fall 2008 feature MY NAME IS BRUCE (starring Bruce Campbell), and screenwriter on the original feature film ARK (Sony Pictures). Past work includes writing and producing the first three seasons of SMALLVILLE, writing the scripts for the feature films TIMECOP & THE MASK, and many graphic novels including THE AMERICAN, ALIENS, PREDATOR, THE PHANTOM, SUPERMAN and SUPERMAN/BATMAN. His blog can be found at http://verheiden.blogspot.com

Erin Kotecki Vest spent ten years as a broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, Orlando and Detroit winning six Golden Mic Awards with LA news institution KFWB. She now serves as Election 08’ Producer for BlogHer.com as well as contributing regularly to the Huffington Post, MOMocrats.com, and her own site Queen of Spain Blog. Most recently Erin’s Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, asking the candidate to step down in mid-February, became internet and mainstream media buzz with over 3000 votes on Digg.com. She’s also turned her 1900+ Twitter followers into political savvy activists firing up their notebooks to tweet during each debate and primary.

Neil has over two decades of experience in public relations, positioning and thought leadership with startups and Fortune 500s. His agency, Vineberg Communications (http://vinebergcommunications.com), is a technology public relations boutique based in San Francisco and New York.

His clients include Jaiku, Webshots, Jaduka, Arrowsight, Eco-Safe Systems, JVC, and the New York Biotechnology Association.

He served as Managing Director at Middleberg Euro, leading accounts for IBM, United Airlines, Sony, Gartner, and Ziff Davis. Prior to that he worked at Golin/Harris where he launched the MP3 Association and helped gain acceptance for and popularize the MP3 digital music format for clients MP3.com, MusicMatch, eMusic, Xing and Diamond Multimedia. He has led accounts for Sprint, Texas Instruments, and CMP.

Neil is also deeply focused on social issues as a longtime consultant to Save the Children, UNICEF, UNDP and the United Nations. He created and managed the Peace Run, the world's largest relay run for peace, and extended that initiative into 127 nations involving 4 million people, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Mikhail Gorbachev, Sir Paul McCartney, the Dalai Lama, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and dozens of U.S. governors and Members of Congress. The program continues today -- renamed the World Harmony Run (http://worldharmonyrun.org).

Pete Vlastelica is the CEO of Yardbarker. Prior to co-founding the company in 2006, Pete managed Business Development at the Walt Disney Internet Group in London and ran Business Development at Plumb Design.

Mariana Wagner is a licensed real estate broker and co-owner of the Wagner iTeam (Keller Williams Realty) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mariana is a Blog Coach and technology trainer for Keller Williams Realty. Mariana maintains her main rel estate blog, as well as several niche-blogs, a KW-focused training and coaching and blogging blog, and is a writer for the online national real estate magazine AgentGenius.com.

Denise Wakeman is a founding partner of The Blog Squad. Since 1996, Denise has been assisting service professionals and small businesses to Attract, Sell and Profit on the Web with online marketing strategies using blogs, ezines, content development plans and ecommerce systems. Denise has more than 20 years experience in small business marketing and management and with her partner Patsi Krakoff, frequently speaks about business blogging. They have co-authored numerous business blogging programs and books including "Build a Better Blog: The Ultimate Guide for Boosting Your Business with a Professional Blog." Denise blogs at biztipsblog.com and buildabetterblog.com.

Rob Walch is VP of Podcaster Relations for Wizzard Media – the largest Podcast Hosting Network. Prior to joining Wizzard Media, Rob was President and founder of podCast411, Inc. He is also Co-Author of the book “Tricks of the Podcasting Masters” - Que 2006. Rob was listed as the 5th most influential person in podcasting according to the book “Podcasting for Dummies” – Wiley Press 2005. He has consulted on podcasting for Governor Bill Richardson and the Sacramento Kings and Monarchs to name just a few. He is a monthly columnist for Blogger & Podcaster Magazine. Rob is currently Chair of the Education and Outreach Committee for the Association of Downloadable Media. Rob started podcasting in late 2004, and is the host of the award winning podCast411 podcast and is also host of Today in iPhone – The first podcast about the iPhone. In the past three years Rob has presented at over 40 National events on the subject of podcasting and New Media and is a regular guest Lecturer at the University of Kansas School of Journalism.

Des Walsh started blogging in 2003 to help promote his coaching business. In the process he became an evangelist for blogging and other social media in business. A former senior public sector executive, Des established his communications consulting, training and coaching business in the late 1980s. He is founding Moderator of the LinkedIn Bloggers Group, author of the e-book 7 Step Business Blog, soon to be published in Mandarin Chinese, and co-author of LinkedIn for Recruiting. Des has spoken on blogging and social media at conferences in Australia, the USA and China. He is a Solutions Partner for the WordFrame collaboration and social media platform.

Hilary Weber is Kaiser Permanente’s Director of Internet Marketing Services (the national Center of Excellence for online marketing for the organization); Kaiser Permanente is the leading integrated health care organization in America, with nearly nine million members across the country. She directs web/digital marketing & promotional strategy for Kaiser Permanente, with particular emphasis on search marketing, email and e-marketing technologies such as social networking (e.g. Kaiser Permanente’s first external blog, kp.org/farmersmarketrecipes).

Prior to her foray into not-for-profit health care, Ms. Weber spent nearly a decade executing high ROI direct marketing, integrated online/offline, e-marketing and brand strategies to both B2C and B2B audiences in the information and publishing arena, working for corporations such as Thomson and IDG. Her last position before Kaiser Permanente was Director of Marketing for Macworld, promoting both the print magazine and multiple Web sites. She is a founding member of the Blog Council, a trustee for the Marketing Science Institute and a member of the Marketers Only Advisory Board for iMedia. She has presented at national conferences such as Search Engine Strategies and Marketing Sherpa. Also, being a former farm girl raised in rural Ohio, she has a long-standing passion for green living and sustainability.

Andy Wibbels is an award-winning blogger and author of Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging. He's has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, Fortune Small Business and The Chicago Tribune. Andy has helped hundreds of businesses all over the world leverage blogging to achieve instant global impact. Andy blogs at andywibbels.com and andymatic.com. Andy currently works at Six Apart where he is product manager for Blogs.com.

Guard Wife is the moniker Melinda Warthman adopted when she began blogging for SpouseBuzz.com. Prior to her SpouseBuzz affiliation, she had been blogging on her own since 2002. Melinda is a 30-something Army National Guard spouse who recently graduated from law school and sat for the July bar exam. Melinda's family includes her ARNG husband, their two young daughters, Annie the golden retriever and Henry the chocolate lab.

Hadji Williams was a top copywriter and brand consultant, having spent over 15 years in the advertising and marketing worlds at Chicago and New York agencies great and small. Throughout his career Williams has developed top campaigns and brand-building concepts targeting every audience for clients across every category imaginable. Conversely, Williams came up on the South and West sides of Chi. Born to hardworking parents, his home life was stable but his neighborhoods were less than predictable. Typical inner-city pitfalls including: drugs, gangs, renegade police and random violence were common. But it was precisely this precarious environment tempered by his deep Christian faith that helped Hadji develop his unique business acumen, powers of observation and agile problem-solving abilities. Today Williams is author of the business classic KNOCK THE HUSTLE (Winter 2005) plus its follow up, KNOCK THE HUSTLE: Vol. 2 (Fall 2007) along with C.R.E.A.M. (Spring 2008). He’s also an adjunct professor, having taught over 25 introductory and advanced advertising courses at Columbia College Chicago. Recently, Williams launched ProdigalPen Publishing, Inc., which is dedicated to the rich stories of America’s multicultural communities.

Brett leads the strategic direction for TubeMogul - the first online video analytics and distribution company serving publishers large and small who need independent information about video performance on the Internet and automated upload to the Web's top video sharing sites. He began his career as a consultant for Accenture. Next, he founded and led YouCanSave.com, a profitable e-commerce company that obtained over $69 million in revenue and was successfully acquired. Brett is undefeated at Risk, is the reigning Foosball champion at TubeMogul and an aspiring windsurfer, sailor and investor. He is also married and has two beautiful children. Brett received his MBA from the UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Joel Mark Witt is a producer, speaker, and new media leader. He is the Founder and Chief Architect of FolkMedia.org - a new media production studio in Baltimore, Maryland dedicated to recruiting, training, and empowering a new generation of digital media leaders. FolkMedia.org has worked with multiple media companies in developing world class audio, video and social media content. Joel is the producer and host of The Folk Media Show - a weekly podcast discussing new ways of using media to empower great storytelling. He is also the Creator/Executive producer of MarylandZoo.TV - for the Maryland Zoo and The Legend Of Molehill Mountain on the Gimp.TV Network. Joel consults with businesses and organizations on how to implement social media like podcasts, online video, blogs, and social networks to increase profits and sales. Joel currently lives in Baltimore Maryland with his wife Megan and two sons Gunnar and Sawyer.

Jeremy Wright is a serial entrepreneur, some have even said "blogpreneur" for his focus on communications-oriented ventures. He is an internationally recognized authority on blogging who has helped hundreds of people and many high profile companies develop strategies to incorporate blogs into their business plans. Jeremy also consults on blogging, communication, IT and time management and is the author of the book Blog Marketing, which is designed to help businesses come to grips with blogs and really start engaging with their audience, customers and consumers on a 1-1 basis.

Nina Yablok has been practicing business law for 32 years. She advised her first online client, the owner of one of Compuserve’s largest forums, in 1994. She is a former member of the California State Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s Cyberspace Law Committee. She is currently General Counsel to Pajamas Media, and represents other online as well as bricks and mortar businesses. Nina is an experienced speaker. She has spoken for many chambers of commerce, bar associations, trade associations, and schools. On a less serious note, Nina has won several “Humorous Speaking” contests as a member of with Toastmasters.

Matthew Yglesias is senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He holds a BA in philosophy from Harvard University. His first book, Heads in the Sand, was published in May 2008 by Wiley. Yglesias previously worked as an associate editor at The Atlantic, as a staff writer at The American Prospect and as an associate editor at Talking Points Memo. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, Slate, The Washington Monthly, and other publications. Yglesias has appeared on Fox News and MSNBC and has been a guest on many radio shows.