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Leesa Barnes Entrepreneur, Business Podcasting Expert Toronto, ON, Canada Skype: savialane Subjects I Speak About Biography Working with management teams, entrepreneurs and organizations, Leesa Barnes teaches insider tips on how to use podcasting to boost sales, create an online buzz and turn listeners into clients. She is President of Toronto-based Caprica Interactive Marketing, a full service audio and video podcast strategy company. Sites/Projects
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She Walks Her Talk
CEO, Entrepreneur, New Media Video Producer, Keynote Speaker, Coach, Web Strategist Honolulu, HI roxanne(at)barefeetstudios.com 808-384-5554 - HST skype: roxannedarling
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Roxanne has over 15 years experience an expert presenter throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, consistently garnering 5 star ratings based on her ability to both inspire and educate her audiences. She's given hundreds of sessions, including keynotes, and is equally effective with small intimate groups as well as audiences of over 1500 people. She began speaking about podcasting in March 2005; her most recent gig is at the BlogHer Business Conference in New York, March 2007.
She is also the voice and co-producer of Beach Walks with Rox, a daily video podcast aka internet tv show that won three Vloggie Awards from both Judge's Favorites and Audience Favorites. Her show is consistently rated in the top podcasts on Network2.tv, Podcast Alley, iTunes and many other podcast reviews. Her philosophy is to cultivate the unique mix of technical quality, authentic messaging, and audience interaction for each project.
She loves 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.
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Here are some testimonials from Roxanne's speaking engagements: "Your presentation at the IABC Luncheon was great. I learned about and absorbed meaningful information that I can use now. That is the way presentations should impact an audience and your speech did just that. Thank you." - Anthony Marlin, Hawaii Pacific University
"You did an excellent job in keeping the audience interested. I only wish that we had a longer program." - Steve Golden, President, International Association of Business Communicators Hawaii
"First to let you know that you were a HUGE hit at the Board of Directors meeting! Folks loved your presentation (on adding a text and video blog to their web presence), loved your energy. You must be getting used to this reaction. It was wonderful to see you bring the room to life." - Cate Baril, Coffee Kids Web Marketing Team
"I wanted to personally thank you for delivering a very informative session on blogging and podcasting. Your views on whether or not companies should set-up their own blogs and how blogs can boost the bottom line were spot-on regarding the audience’s needs. I’m looking forward to listening to the session on your blog sites." - Lance Tanaka, Tesoro Hawaii Corporation
"Roxanne has the ability to see what is missing and communicate that in a way that empowers the individual. This is both rare and effective. In today's parlance, she has both a high Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and high Emotional Quotient (EQ)." - Richard Whiteley, author, "Customer-Centered Growth"
"As our Marketing Specialist, Roxanne's workshops scored a consistent 5 out of 5 stars. She is a gifted presenter with extensive practical and applicable business knowledge." - Small Business Development Center, Santa Fe, NM
"Roxanne has proven to be an intelligent, caring and capable consultant who delivers on her projects with highly rated evaluations. Individual participants may range from Vietnamese immigrants who assemble computers to Fortune 500 company executives. She has shown a great skill in working with a diverse group of people. She was not only an excellent counselor, but a visionary as well." - Pat Rhoten, Senior Acct Manager, Johnson & Johnson
"This workshop was excellent. Roxanne knows how to relate to all types of people and teaches us how to do the same. She is super effective as an instructor and I definitely recommend this program to others. - Julie Moo-Thurman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
"Roxanne is a dynamic, powerful, loving, energetic, humorous and effective presenter. She walks her talk and it shows in her personal vibrancy, her depth of knowledge, and her engaging style." - Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul
"Thanks for coming to talk to us. Your talk helped a lot. I felt better after you talked to us. The 24 hours without calling anyone names didn't work, I got in a fight with my sister, but I'm working on it. Thanks for taking your time to talk to us. Love," – Maria Sanchez, fifth grade
"I would like to thank you for coming to our class room. I sincerely feel that it helped me to be a better person. After I spent those 24 hours without calling anyone a name, I found out that it wasn't that bad. It made me feel good inside having known that I didn't hurt one person that day. Yours truly." – Brady Sherman, fifth grade |
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Entrepreneur, New Media Producer, Director, Editor, Videoblogger Los Angeles, CA zadi(at)zadidiaz.com AIM: jetsetshowzadi
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Zadi Diaz is co-founder and principal of Smashface Productions, LLC - a new media production company based in Los Angeles, California. She is the Executive Producer of the Vloggie® award winning youth culture show JETSET, as well as RSSnews.tv, New Mediacracy, Vidlicious and others.
Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, CBS Evening News, Business Week, and The Independent, among many other national publications and programs.
She has spoken on various panels at conferences throughout the United States about the future of online media and is regarded as an expert in her field.
In the past she has worked as an off-Broadway theatre marketing director, theatre producer/director, playwright, and art director/photo editor for several consumer publications.
Other tiny facts about her: She loves strange and funny things and people, chocolate and raspberry, gadgets, moving and still images, a twisted and crass sense of humor, friendly furry things, and her mac.
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| Tara Hunt
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, CMO, Blogger, Shit Disturber Citizen Agency 415.694.1951
About my company: Citizen Agency is a consultancy, co-founded in 2006 by Tara Hunt and Chris Messina in San Francisco. CA focuses on community inreach for technology clients. More Subjects I speak about: Community Marketing, Marketing 2.0, Starting Up, Thinking Small, Blogging for Small Business, Creating your Brand Personality, Self-Promotion, Community Responsibility, Customer Advocacy, Pinko Marketing Speaker Bio: ‘Miss Rogue’ defines herself as a customer first, marketer second. In 2005, Tara became the marketing director at Riya, where her community marketing theories resulted in huge gains, such as national news mentions before launch and over one million photos uploaded within 24 hours of launch. She doesn’t believe in PR, only in the power of building relationships with a community. She co-founded Citizen Agency in 2006 with the mission of teaching her clients how to work more effectively with the communities they serve. Tara has over seven years experience in non-traditional marketing planning. She maintains a successful blog over at HorsePigCow.
Speaking of community, Tara is a community-based movement evangelist, spending all of her free time on Barcamp, Coworking, Pinko Marketing and Winecamp. She is also a supporter of the Open Source movement, the EFF, Creative Commons, Microformats, OpenID and is an avid customer advocate.
Former Speaking Engagements: Blog Business Summit, Panelist, Seattle, WA, 2006 Bay CHI, Presenter, Palo Alto, CA, 2006 Attention Trust Meetup, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, 2006 Gnomedex, Presenter, Seattle, WA, 2006 SuperNova, Workshop Moderator, San Francisco, CA, 2006 Mesh Conference, Keynote Speaker, Toronto, ON, 2006 Alliance of Women in Technology, Panelist, Menlo Park, CA, 2006 Net2 Conference, Panelist & Immoderator, Mountain View, CA, 2006 Net Tuesday, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, 2006 SXSW, Panelist, Austin, TX, 2006 Several BarCamps, Presenter or Discussion Leader, All over the world, 2006
Future Speaking Engagements: CommunityNext, Palo Alto, CA, February 9-10, 2007 Future of Web Apps, London, UK, February 20-22, 2007 SXSW, Austin, TX, March 10, 2007 Community 2.0, Las Vegas, NV, March 12-14, 2007 ETech, San Diego, CA, March 26-29, 2007 Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2007 Plexus 2007, Toronto, ON, May 1-2, 2007 |
| Dina Kaplan
Entrepreneur, Co-founder, COO, blip.tv New York City, NY
Subjects I Speak About: Trends in Video, Making Money through videoblogging, creating great content for the Web, new media vs. traditional media Blip.tv is a videoblogging and podcasting site that hosts original, serialized content from people around the world. We host videos on blip.tv and also send them throughout the blogosphere: to people's websites and blogs, to iTunes and to Yahoo! Video and AOL Video. Show creators can opt into advertising, and we split all ad revenues with users 50/50. Biography: Dina Kaplan is the COO and co-founder of blip.tv. Dina oversees all business operations for the company, including media partnerships, distribution deals, advertising and sponsorships, PR, marketing, and investor relations. Before blip.tv, Dina was a news reporter with WNBC in New York, Wave3 News (NBC) in Louisville Kentucky and News12 Long Island and New Jersey, where she won an Emmy Award and numerous Society of Professional Journalist and Associated Press Awards. Before reporting, Dina produced stories for MTV News and helped to coordinate MTV's Choose or Lose coverage of the 1996 Presidential Election. Prior to MTV she worked at the White House as Director of Research for the White House Counsel's Office.
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Nancy A. Shenker Former Hippy turned New Media Guru
Marketing Strategist, CEO, Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker, New Media Guru, Brand Builder, Web Strategist
Thornwood, NY
914-773-4225 (office)
914-773-4215 (fax)
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Since starting theONswitch in 2003, Nancy A. Shenker has helped a wide range of businesses launch,
re-brand, and flourish. Prior to starting her venture, she worked in various business development and
marketing positions and is experienced in all media (print and electronic) and in small- and large-scale
marketing.
Her expertise is in business start-ups and transformations, and she has an extensive track record in
growing businesses through creative new solutions. Although she believes in developing solid strategic plans, she is equally sensitive to the need to move quickly to deliver immediate results.
Among her accomplishments is the launch of Citibank’s Connecticut branches. She also developed a
proprietary database system to identify new retail customers, researched and launched numerous new products/services, played a lead role in MasterCard’s “Priceless” campaign roll-out and managed event
marketing for the world’s largest producer of business trade shows, spanning 40 industries.
She holds an AB in English and Psychology from of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a
Graduate Diploma in Book Publishing from New York University. She also completed Kellogg’s Executive Communications program and teaches Marketing in the School of Continuing Education at New York
University.
She is the President of the Westchester/Fairfield Chapter of Women in Communications, an active
member of both the Westchester Business Council and the Westchester County Association, and is a
Contributing Editor forthe New York Enterprise Report. She has been published and quoted in
The New York Times, Business Week, Enterpreneur.com, Brilliant Results, The Stamford Advocate,
the Westchester Business Journal, AT&T’s and Lowe’s websites, and other publications.
She is the co-author of Your Handy Dandy Guide to the Web, an overview of web development and
author of Your Handy Dandy Guide to Trade Shows.
Additional background about Nancy and theONswitch can be found at www.theONswitch.com.
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| Melanie Swan
Futurist Palo Alto, CA skype, jaiku, twitter, googletalk, etc.: lablogga
Subjects I Speak About: Technology trends and their implications
Biography:
Melanie Swan is a futurist, hedge fund manager, technology entrepreneur and blogger based in Silicon Valley. Two of her main current projects include Markets 2.0: Social Finance and Affinity Markets and Metaverse Roadmapping.
In the past, Melanie founded and sold a technology startup company, GroupPurchase, which aggregated small business buying groups. She was Director of Research at Telecoms Consultancy RHK/Ovum and previously held positions at iPass, JP Morgan, Fidelity and Arthur Andersen and has been an advisor and consultant to numerous technology companies.
Melanie has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in French and International Economics from Georgetown University. She is the Treasurer of San Francisco-based non-profit Equal Rights Advocates, an Advisory Board member of the Accelerating Studies Foundation and co-moderates of the Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boulder Future Salons.
Click here for a more detailed biography.
Speaking Engagements:
Updated continuously at: http://melanieswan.com/presentations.html
Elon University/Pew Internet Project "Imagining the Internet"
Get Deeply Geeky, BlogHer, July 2006, San Jose CA
NIH Biomedical Computing Special Interest Group, Feb-July, 2006, Bethesda, MD "The Singularity is Near" - Ray Kurzweil Presentation, Audio "Blink" - Malcolm Gladwell Presentation, Audio "On Intelligence" - Jeff Hawkins Presentation, Audio "Collapse"- Jared Diamond Presentation,Audio
Accelerating Change 2005, Stanford CA Accelerating Change 2004, Stanford CA Accelerating Change 2003, Stanford CA
Sites/Projects: Website: MS Futures Group
Blog: Broader Perspective |
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