- Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . .
- Vincent Maher
Vincent John Maher (born January 28, 1975) is the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online, in Johannesburg South Africa. After obtaining a B. Journ degree from Rhodes, Maher started his career in 1997 at VWV Interactive, the then leading South African web development company. He pioneered use of several technologies on the South African web, including early versions of Macromedia Flash (then Coolsplash). During his tenure at VWV, Maher was a co-founder of Slime.co.za, …
- Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters".
- Chris Dewolfe
Chris DeWolfe is one of the creators of MySpace (along with Tom Anderson). He is the current CEO of MySpace. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
- Andy
Senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio; former big cheese at the Digital Divide Network; itinerant correspondent for Rocketboom; video blogger; travel addict; new dad.
- Veronica Belmont
Blog.
- C.C. Chapman
Charles "C.C." Chapman is a prominent figure in the community of podcasting and podsafe music. From a home studio in the Boston area, Chapman hosts the independent music-focused podcasts "Accident Hash" and "U-Turn Cafe", and contributes to PodShow Music Rewind, a weekly digest of music shows on the PodShow network. He also promotes PodShow's Podsafe Music Network, a major archive of music licensed for free use in podcasts.
- Tom Coates
Tom Coates (Born 19 July 1972) is an early weblogger based in London, England, who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999. He's also well-known as an expert in social software and for his thinking on future media distribution and the web of data. Educated at the Norwich School, the University of Bristol and the London College of Printing, Coates currently works for Yahoo! Tech Development with Caterina Fake and Jeremy Zawodny.
- Cameron Reilly
Cameron Reilly (born October 10, 1970) of Yarraville in Melbourne, Australia is a blogger, podcaster and entrepreneur best known for his co-founding of The Podcast Network, a podcasting business with programming from around the world. Married to wife Belinda, they have twin sons Hunter (named after WWE Wrestler Triple_H i.e. Hunter Hearst Helmsley) and Taylor (named after Roger Taylor from Duran Duran).
- Irina Slutsky
i'm a talker. the good thing is, if i don't know what i'm talking about, i say so. i'm an internet video star. you think i'm kidding? i make a lot of mistakes, and people tell me it all adds up to wisdom some day. my mother died in a car accident from speeding in the rain, so i try to be careful when i drive. but i'm not afraid of death since, well, what can you do about it? i'm getting maudlin' so i'll stop. have a nice day!
- Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Justin Hall
Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist), and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. He graduated from Chicago's Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary "Justin's Links from the Underground", …
- Vanessa Dimauro
Vanessa DiMauro (b. 1967) is a community builder and researcher whose work focuses on the role learning and decision-making play in online environments. Born in Hartford, Connecticut DiMauro started her career at TERC under the auspices of a National Science Foundation grant to study the ways in which professionals share information in communities of practice online. She has built online communities in business and education settings globally.
- Laura Betterly
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Evo Terra
Evo Terra is the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, the co-author of Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He maintains a consulting practice that helps companies and organizations transition from a passive to an active media world.
- Stan Relihan
President & CEO of Expert Executive Search - one of Asia Pacific's best-connected Search, Selection & Recruitment Firms. Also a leading international Headhunter, Neural Networker & Technology Enthusiast; Keynote Speaker; Internet & Web 2.0 Subject Matter Expert; Top 30 LinkedIn 'Power User'.Host of TPN :: The Connections Show, an audio podcast series that puts you ahead of the curve with the latest developments in Social & Business Networking. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com
- Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit.
- Robin Wolaner
Robin Wolaner (born 1954) is a noted magazine entrepreneur and business author. She is the founder of TeeBeeDee, an online network for baby boomers that launched in 2007. She was an executive at CNET from 1997 to 2002. In 1985, she founded "Parenting" magazine, later sold to Time Inc.. Her founding of Parenting is documented in one of the most popular case studies by Harvard Business School, taught to all first-year students of the school.
- Pratap Chatterjee
Pratap Chatterjee (b. Birmingham, United Kingdom) is an Indian/Sri Lankan investigative journalist and progressive author. He is a British citizen and was raised in India, although he now lives in California. He serves as the executive director of CorpWatch, an Oakland-based anti-globalization and corporate accountability organization. He was a member of the board of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network from 2001 to 2005, …
- Christopher Kingsley
Just a guy from the Midwest trying to capture the world around us, show it to everyone for free, and ultimately transform the local search. Edges need to be cut.
- Bill Austin
Accomplished Systems Engineer with extensive experience in Security and Internet Architecture, Information Systems and Project Management. Proven successes in defining and developing complex systems and problem solving involving wireless and Internet technologies as well as the invention of integrated systems applications. Internet marketing expert with extensive experience in improving bottom line performance for medium sized manufacturing and distribution company marketing efforts. . . .
- Renee Blodgett
As President and Founder of Blodgett Communications, Renee Blodgett offers a very personalized approach of working with her clients, their customers and the influencers that impact them. She has been providing full service corporate communications, public relations and marketing consulting for worldwide technology companies and executives for nearly twenty years.
- Carey Holzman
Carey Holzman (born June 23, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan) is an author, freelance journalist and co-host of Craig Crossman's nationally syndicated radio show, "Computer America". Holzman grew up in Oak Park, Michigan and moved to Glendale, Arizona in 1980, where he lives to this day. Holzman is the author of "The Healthy PC" by McGraw-Hill, and is a regular contributor to CMP Media's TechBuilder site and Tom's Hardware Guide.
- Bob Carilli
Robert Carilli President/CEO Medium Click - SEO/SEM
- Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s. He is especially known for his book "Language" (1933), describing the state of the art of linguistics at its time. Bloomfield was the main founder of the Linguistic Society of America. Bloomfield's thought was mainly characterized by its behavioristic principles for the study of meaning, …
- Lucas Mire
Lucas Miré is an American singer/songwriter based in Atlanta, Georgia, whose music is characterized by personal lyrics, relationship themes, and melancholy melodies. His debut CD, "Forever's Not As Long As It Used To Be", was independently released in 2005 on Zakz Records. In 2005, Miré was selected by singer-songwriter/activist Doria Roberts to perform during the Queerstock block at Atlanta's Gay Pride.
- Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebecca MacKinnon , co-founder of Global Voices jots down her impressions from the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age that recently took place in Taipei, Taiwan. Rebecca's post on her blog was pointed out by Subbiah Arunachalam and made for a really interesting read. I wanted this to reach a wider audience and hence figured it would make sense...
- John McLaughlin
Senior technologist who can listen, enlighten and communicate technical value to customers, technology users, management, fellow employees and partners on a one to one and one to many basis. Able to solve business problems with technology and use technology to grow business. flash@systemnews.com; System News, Inc. produces a weekly news report covering the Sun Microsystems marketplace. We sell private-label version of our system to Sun Resellers. As as ASP, we are looking for new markets . . .
- Anonymous Spocker
- Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is a social media expert specializing in building communities using digital tools. He is co-founder of PodCamp , a free unconference exploring the use of social media like podcasting and videoblogging to build relationships. He produces the Video on the Net conference for Pulvermedia and blogs at Chrisbrogan.com
- Prem Panicker
Prem Panicker is a well known Indian cricket journalist. He was one of a handful of journalists who helped found Rediff.com (Nasdaq: REDF). He was based in New York, as editor of India Abroad, the largest Indian-American newspaper, after that paper was bought by Rediff. Last heard from, he is based in Mumbai, at the head office of Rediff.com as an editor; his reports on the games of the 2007 Cricket World Cup is available here.
- Jennifer Samples
SVP, Digital Director for Targetcast tcm Executive focusing on Interactive/Online/Digital Media, Direct Mail, Alternative Media and Newsprint Advertising. Direct experience monetizing publisher websites utilizing interactive media planning and ad networks. Success with convergence marketing with Interactive and Direct mail opportunities. Interests include Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Mobile Marketing and Employee Development.
- Francesca Casadei
- Richard French
Richard French combines technical expertise with business savvy, to help internet and software companies achieve their full potential. Since 1998, he has built successful internet companies and brands in remote access, on-line media, communities, entertainment and advertising.
- Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source Software Engineer on content management, content delivery and system integration applications.- JBoss Committer at JBoss for projects dedicated to Portals;- Editor at HTML.it for open source blog oneOpenSource;- Reviewer at Packt Publishing for books about J2EE and Portals.Videogame tester, barcamper, Creative Commons supporter, jazz guitarist.
- Gina Cafasso
- Marcelo Ziperovich
Creative producer/executive with a history of conceiving, developing and implementing original ideas across media platforms. Wide variety of experience including project management, creative management, writing and development in the television, Internet, gaming and film arenas. Highly adaptable and easy-going; out-of-the-box problem solver; open-minded and entrepreneurial. Currently pursuing opportunities in original online content that will tie my technology and traditional broadcast . . .
- Rajesh Taneja
In my own words... in '93 I founded my IT services company - with a combination of good timing (right place - right time) and sheer perseverance, I found myself to be the due dilligence point of contact for a number of investors, M&A groups and VC firms. Through these relationships, I have served on the board of numerous companies (both public and private) and have worked througout North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific Region, living between Switzerland, Japan and Canada.
- Dan Farber
Dan Farber at ZDNet covered LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman's keynote .