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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel was given the title “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” by Marketing Magazine. Joel is President of TwistImage, a Digital Marketing agency. He has been blogging since 2003 and podcasting since 2006 with his sites Six Pixels of Separation and Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. Both focus on Digital Marketing and Personal Branding. He [...]

Todd Defren

 Todd Defren has been a “PR guy” since 1992. He is currently Senior Fellow for New Communications Research and a Principal at SHIFT Communications. He has formerly served as Managing Director of Western Operations at Sterling Hager, Inc. and Communications Coordinator at ENTEX. He has worked with clients such as Novell, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis [...]

Lee Odden

 Lee Odden is the Founder and CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, a team of veteran internet marketers. He is one of 25 internet marketing experts chosen to be profiled in the book Online Marketing Heroes. Odden’s marketing expertise has been cited by U.S. News and The Economist among other industry publications.
As a trainer and speaker, [...]

Connie Reese

Connie Reese is the Chief Community Officer of New Media Lab. Based in Austin, TX, the company designs curriculum-based learning programs for companies new to social media. She is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Social Media Club, an international association of media professionals.
Reese blogs at Every Dot Connects, which was acquired by [...]

C.C. Chapman

C.C. Chapman is pioneer in the realm of new media, starting his own blog in July 2001, then podcasting in December 2004. He has since become prominent in the podcasting community with his independent podcasts, Accident Hash, U-Turn Cafe and Managing the Gray. He formerly managed PodShow’s Podsafe Music Network.
Chapman has been referred to as [...]

Brian Solis

Brian Solis is the Founder and President of Futureworks, a Silicon Valley PR and New Media agency. He is among the industry thought leaders in Social Media having also a founding member of the 2.0 Workgroup and the Social Media Club. In addition to his regular contributions to marketing and tech publications, he regularly blogs [...]

Shel Holtz

Shel Holtz founded Holtz Communication + Technology in 1996 after having applied online technology PR services to client companies since the mid-1980s. His clients have included Intel, PepsiCo, Sears, General Mills, Raytheon, The World Bank and Monsanto. Holtz blogs at A Shel of my Former Self.
Holtz has a BA degree in Journalism from California State [...]

Rohit Bhargava

Rohit Bhargava holds a BBA in International Marketing from Emory University and an MA in Professional Writing from George Mason University. He has become widely recognized as integrating the concepts of Social Marketing techniques under the comprehensive umbrella of “Social Media Optimization”, now becoming a standard business practice in digital marketing.
Bhargava is one of the [...]

Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston has been referred to as a ‘local blogging guru’ by the Washington Post. He has worked as a marketing strategist in the Washington, D.C. Area for over 15 years creating Internet marketing campaigns for private and public organizations. His clients include United Way, Save Darfur, Bartleby Books, Ford Motor Company and Verizon Wireless [...]

Andy Sernovitz

 Andy Sernovitz is CEO of GasPedal, a company he describes as a “word of mouth marketing consulting firm”. He was previously CEO and a founder of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, innovating the idea of consumer controlled marketing which has since become a phenomenon.
Sernovitz is also a speaker at industry events and an adjunct [...]