I have been online friends with BL Ochman since late 2004 and 2005 and she is a leader in the world of social media.  Best of all she loves my dog and that can’t be a bad thing!

Voted one of 25 most influential women in social media, B.L. Ochman has been helping
companies integrate emerging media into their communications since 1996, in order to
engage their audience and increase their sales. Adweek said about B.L. “A consultant
and social-media savant who actually knows what she’s talking about.”

She has created dynamic Internet and emerging media marketing and brand strategy for companies including Meijer, Transitions Lenses, IBM, Ford, McGraw-Hill, Cendant, Simon & Schuster, stacksandstacks.com, and American Greetings.

“Sightings,” a Facebook game she created for Transitions, will launch in May, as will a comprehensive social media monitoring platform she originated.

She is the publisher of the popular What’s Next Blog www.whatsnextblog.com, which tracks news and trends in online marketing. She’s also, a frequent conference speaker and a contributor to AdAge Digital Next, Business Week Online, Social Media Today, Mashable and others.

Ochman is co-founder of the pet lover’s site, Pawfun.com www.pawfun.com, and publisher of Ethics Crisis Blog www.ethicscrisis.com where readers rate anonymously submitted ethics transgressions confessions. Follow B.L. on Twitter @whatsnext www.twitter.com/whatsnext and find her online at http://about.me/BL_Ochman

Until 1995, she owned an award-winning New York PR firm that she grew to one of the 100 largest independent PR firms in the US.

B.L.’s industry citations also include: Conversation Agent: Top 20 PR Power Women, The W List, Top 25 Marketing Blogs and Top 50 Social Media Blogs of 2010.

Gentile’s career began in 1991 with The Rendon Group, an international strategic communications firm based in Washington D.C. As an account executive, he developed and executed strategic communication plans to meet key objectives of both public and private clients including: African National Congress, Bell Atlantic, IBM (Saudi Arabia), Iraqi National Congress, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. He has also worked on domestic political campaigns.

Prior to his current post, Gentile served as a senior manager in the technology marketing divisions of Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Specifically, he was responsible for developing and managing programs to enhance the user experience of proprietary software products and to increase the utilization of personal productivity tools.

He earned his (BS) in Communication from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and his (MA) Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix (Tampa) in 2000. He served as Co-Chair of the Coldwell Banker CARES Foundation, where he led an effort to sponsor and build 14 Habitat for Humanity homes throughout the state of Florida from 2005-2007. Currently, he is actively involved with an effort to raise funds for Easter Seals. He currently resides in Long Valley, NJ with his wife, Shirley, and two sons.

Carol Roth is a business strategist, deal maker and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Entrepreneur Equation. She has helped her clients, ranging from solopreneurs to multinational corporations, raise more than $1 billion in capital, complete hundreds of millions of dollars in M&A transactions, secure high-profile licensing and partnership deals, create brand loyalty programs and more.

Carol is a frequent radio, television and print media contributor on the topics of business and entrepreneurship, having appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, Fox Business, WGN TV Chicago and more.  Additionally, Carol’s Unsolicited Business Advice blog at CarolRoth.com was recently named as one of the Top 10 small business blogs online.

Twitter: @CarolJSRoth

Web: www.CarolRoth.com

I have been a huge fan of BlogHer and have been an evangelist of BlogHer since they began their organization.  The leaders of that company have been mentors of many in the blogging business and have led the way as the industry was formed.  I have the pleasure today to talk with and interview Elisa Camahort.

As BlogHer’s COO, Elisa Camahort Page leads events, marketing, public relations and research for BlogHer, while working to ensure that all company operations deliver to plan.

Prior to co-founding BlogHer, Elisa ran a marketing consultancy, Worker Bees, that was among the first to integrate corporate marketing strategies into the social media environment. Worker Bees followed a successful career as in the cable broadband sector. Her most recent corporate position was Senior Director of Product Marketing at Terayon Communication Systems.

Elisa is a frequent public speaker, bringing research data about women and online communities to life in recent keynote sessions at MediaBistro Circus, Fem 2.0, New Comm Forum and WOMMA Marketing Summit.

Elisa is a founding Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and serves on the Board of Directors of the 42nd Street Moon Theatre in San Francisco, the programming advisory committee for SXSW Interactive and the Board of Advisors of the Anita Borg Institute.

Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies.

Chris Brogan is president of Human Business Works, an online education and community company for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs. His first project there, 501 Mission Place, helps nonprofits and charities learn how to grow their capabilities. Chris is also Entrepreneur in Residence at CrossTech Ventures, where he’s working to develop New Marketing Labs and The Pulse Network, among other projects.

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 has 16 years of enterprise telecommunications and wireless experience prior to all this.

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Currently on the staff of corporate communications in Ford, Scott heads up the social media function and holds the title Global Digital Multimedia Communications Manager. 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, as social media is being integrated into many facets of Ford business. Prior to joining Ford, Scott served as Consigliere for crayon, a strategic marketing firm, and with PJA Advertising + Marketing, a boutique B to B agency specializing in health sciences and high tech.

In addition to his consulting and agency background, Scott is an active blogger and podcaster. He writes about the intersection of advertising, marketing and PR at The Social Media Marketing Blog (www.scottmonty.com) and also writes The Baker Street Blog, a literary undertaking. Scott has been featured in numerous news and business publications, in over a dozen books, and on a variety of broadcast media from podcasts to NPR to national television.

Scott is a recognized thought leader in the social media industry and frequently speaks at industry events. Scott received his Master’s in Medical Science from Boston University’s School of Medicine concurrently with his MBA from BU’s Graduate School of Management. He lives in the greater Detroit area with his wife and two young sons, golfs all too infrequently, and has a hidden talent for voice over work.

Oh, and one last little-known fact: Scott coined the Oxford Dictionary of English-accepted term “tweetup.”

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I had the great pleasure of meeting Kimberly while out at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas with a number of other mommies.  She is doing some great things in the world of social media and  I follow her show regularly!

Kimberley Clayton Blaine, MA, MFT, executive producer of www.MommytoMommy.TV & Author of The Internet Mommy & The Go-To Mom’s Parents’ Guide to Emotion Coaching Young Children. Her webshow, TheGoToMom.TV has captured one of the largest growing niche audiences — parents who have children birth to seven, through professionally produced yet authentic and real educational videos — She’s a national parenting expert and a licensed Family and Child Therapist specializing in working with children newborn to seven years old. Kimberley is currently the Social Marketing Director for a Los Angeles based Early Childhood Mental Health Campaign (Project ABC) funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services (SAMHSA).

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You can see all that Kimberly is working on at Mommy To Mommy TV and you can find her at the same name on Twitter for @MommyToMommyTV.  She has been doing much more work over at TheGoToMom.tv too!

Sugar Jones, when asked if she is a Mommy Blogger, likes to respond, “I’m not that kind of mom.” She is a dreamer, traveler, entrepreneur, and lover of life… even when it’s not so fabulous. She has four children, ages 7 to 22.

They have taught her many tough lessons and given her much joy, which is why she forgives them for all the sleepless nights and wrinkles. The one lesson she hopes her children will learn from her is to live out loud.

Sugar is currently working with NeerLife to spread the word about the next exciting phase of their private geo-location application, the phase she calls the “honey dos get done” phase. She’s sure this application will save marriages.

Sugar and her friend, Judy (@WheresJudy on Twitter) will be in Austin at SxSW partying and telling folks all about Neer Life and the new Location Triggered Task Reminders.

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Rick’s bio:

Rick Calvert is the CEO and Co-founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo. He has been involved
in the trade show industry since 1996 serving as sales manager and director of sales for three of
Tradeshow Week’s top 200 events including the SEMA Show (#4), AWFS®Vegas (#39) and the

DEMA Show (#97).

Rick’s interest in new media first began in during the explosion of the political blogosphere around
the 2000 election season. He was finally inspired to launch his own blog in October of 2005.
After experiencing unexpected success with his political blog he began searching for the blogging
tradeshow.

When he realized no such event existed he launched BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas
November of 2007 and attracted 1,600 attendees. BlogWorld & New Media Expo will host over
120 exhibiting companies and more than 3,500 attendees whose combined audience reaches
more than 200,000 readers, listeners and viewers! The event also attracts numerous fortune 500
companies like Johnson & Johnson, eBay, Intel, Ford, AB/Inbev, Sony, Kodak, and traditional
media brands ESPN, CNN, Los Angeles Times and more.

Rick lives in Canyon Lake California with his wife and two Karellian Bear Dogs Thor and Abby.

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Paul Chaney has been a friend since I began as a consultant in the world of social media.  We were blogging consultants back then before social media had been invented as a phrase.  I welcome Paul as we talk about the latest in applications that is taking the world by storm– Facebook.  Join me and Paul as we talk about the latest industry news and talk about how Facebook is changing how businesses handle marketing.  We will also discuss the latest changes to the Facebook pages for businesses.

Paul is an Internet marketing consultant and trainer specializing in social media. He is a popular speaker and author of The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media, published by Wiley.

Most recently, Paul served as Internet marketing director for Bizzuka, a web design, content management and Internet marketing company based in his hometown of Lafayette, LA.

Prior to that Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry by encouraging Realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy.

He is the co-author of 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.

Paul sits on the board of advisors for the Women’s Wisdom Network, the Social Media Marketing Institute, and SmartBrief on Social Media.

He is a feature writer for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of social media for marketing and blogs for the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog, Social Media Today, MyVenturePad.com, and Allbusiness.com.

Paul has led numerous blog and social media workshops and seminars, including the first ever such seminar to be held in Asia.

Paul is a Technical Editor for Pearson and Wiley publishing and has worked on most of the For Dummies series books related to blogs and Internet marketing that have been written.

He was technical editor and contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, the very first book to address blogging from a purely business perspective.