Age of Conversation Authors

Cathryn Hrudicka, Corentin Monot, Chris Wilson, Daniel B. Honigman, Dan Schawbel

Cathryn Hrudicka
http://www.CreativeSage.com
Cathryn Hrudicka is Chief Imagination Officer at her company, Creative Sage™.  She is a public relations, social media, marketing and innovation consultant and executive coach. Her clients include leaders in the entertainment, business, technology, health care and nonprofit sectors. An author of eight novels, Cathryn is working on a nonfiction book series about creativity and innovation. She is also a composer, sound designer, journalist and multimedia artist.

Corentin Monot
www.organic-frog.com
After studying History at Lyon 2 University (France) and Communications at ISCOM in Paris, Corentin started his career as a Strategic Planner at AKQA in London. He then worked for Agency.com and later established Duke London (Avenue A | Razorfish) planning activities. He has recently joined The Brooklyn Brothers, a start-up created by George Bryant in London. During his career, Corentin has worked with the following clients: Nissan, Dockers, Levi's, Universal Music, British Airways, Ikea, Coca-Cola, Nike, Xbox, Orange, Johnnie Walker and Yell.com.

Chris Wilson
www.freshpeel.com
Chris Wilson is a fanatic of all things marketing and branding. Chris is a Designer/Marketing Strategist at Hester Designs, where through creative problem solving, strategy and design, he develops marketing and branding solutions that work. An innovative thought leader in the industry, Chris shares his thoughts at his blog, The Marketing Fresh Peel. Located in Oklahoma City, Chris serves clients throughout the United States.

Daniel B. Honigman
http://danielhonigman.com
Daniel B. Honigman is the Social Media Strategy Coordinator for Tribune Interactive in Chicago. Previously, he worked for the Chicago Tribune, where he helped initiate and launch social media initiatives in the newsroom. A journalist at heart, Daniel is enjoying his ride in the social media space, and he encourages others to join him there. He also enjoys a good cigar.

Dan Schawbel
www.personalbrandingblog.wordpress.com
Dan Schawbel is the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. He authors the world famous Personal Branding Blog and publishes Personal Branding Magazine. Dan's upcoming book is called Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, Spring 2009). Dan has been called a "personal branding force of nature" by Fast Company and his work has been published in BrandWeek Magazine, Advertising Age and countless other publications.

C.B. Whittemore, Chris Brown, Connie Bensen, Connie Reece

C.B. Whittemore
http://FlooringTheConsumer.blogspot.com
C.B. Whittemore is Director, In-Store Innovation for Solutia's Wear-Dated carpet fiber. In that role, she tracks consumer, retail and marketing trends which she reports on in Flooring The Consumer, in presentations and in articles for Floor Covering Weekly, an industry publication. She also evangelizes the Wear-Dated carpet fiber brand via public relations, the Wear-Dated website, the recently launched Carpetology Blog, and other social media venues.

Chris Brown
http://www.brandandmarket.com
Chris believes that what goes around comes around. With over 25 years of experience in building brands and marketing companies, she writes for business professionals at Branding & Marketing about marketing strategy and tactics. Her interests are social media, entrepreneurship and building sustainable businesses. Chris is president and owner of Marketing Resources & Results in Hudson, Ohio, USA.

Connie Bensen
www.conniebensen.com
Connie believes that community is essential. With over 12 years experience in building community, she writes at www.conniebensen.com about Community Strategy. Her interests also include social networking & branding. Connie is a consultant & provides community manager services & training.

Connie Reece
http://everydotconnects.com
Connie is a co-founding member and serves on the advisory board of the Social Media Club, an international best-practices association. She is also founder and principal of Every Dot Connects, a group of communications specialists who are passionate about using new technologies to build bridges between people and ideas and causes. She lives in Austin, Texas, USA, and is owned by a cat named Amazin' Gracie.

Charles Sipe, Chris Cree, Chris Wilson, Christina Kerley (“CK”)

Charles Sipe
www.coolmarketingstuff.com
Charles Sipe is a marketing specialist from Seattle, Washington. He graduated in 2006 from the University of Washington and wants to someday become a marketing thought leader and professor of marketing.

Chris Cree
http://SuccessCREEations.com/blog/
Chris Cree started SuccessCREEations, Inc. as a way to earn a living perusing his passion for blogging and social media participation. He is carving out a niche for his company assisting clients with all things WordPress – including trouble shooting, de-hacking, MU optimization, and integration of third party applications. On the side Chris is working hard to launch a film and TV acting career from his home base in Savannah, Georgia.

Chris Wilson
www.freshpeel.com
Chris Wilson is a fanatic of all things marketing and branding. Chris is a Designer/Marketing Strategist at Hester Designs, where through creative problem solving, strategy and design, he develops marketing and branding solutions that work. An innovative thought leader in the industry, Chris shares his thoughts at his blog, The Marketing Fresh Peel. Located in Oklahoma City, Chris serves clients throughout the United States.

Christina Kerley (“CK”)
www.ck-blog.com
High-energy, high-impact marketing specialist Christina Kerley (“CK”) bolsters brands, companies and causes through her NYC-based consultancy. She sees the marketing possibilities in everything and enjoys changing markets, opening minds, clean debates, dirty martinis, exploring the Big Apple—and hopping to other cities to explore all they have to offer, too.

C.C. Chapman, Cam Beck, Cathleen M. Rittereiser, Cédric Giorgi

C.C. Chapman
www.cc-chapman.com
C.C. Chapman is one of the founders of The Advanced Guard, an innovative marketing agency focused on creating radical marketing programs using emerging technologies and social media. Based in Boston, he is an avid photographer and a father of two.

Cam Beck
www.chaosscenario.com
Cam is an experience planner at Click Here, the independent interactive marketing agency affiliated with The Richards Group, in Dallas, TX. He records his thoughts on business, leadership, marketing, technology and usability at chaosscenario.com, plus wherever his friends in and out of the industry are having interesting conversations about almost anything. A former Marine in a family of Marines, Cam also is part-owner of OO-RAH.com.

Cathleen M. Rittereiser
http://cathleenritt.blogspot.com
Cathleen M. Rittereiser is co-author of Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions and an investment marketing consultant. An early adopter of social media, she has emerged as an evangelist for Web 2.0 technology on Wall Street. Known online as CathleenRitt, she tweeted the idea for the Frozen Pea Fund charity and comments on business, politics and pop culture as a comic performer, sporadic blogger and fanatic tweeter.

Cédric Giorgi
www.cedricgiorgi.com
Cédric is currently marketing manager at Goojet, a French start-up specialized in the mobile web. He has a strong entrepreneurship-feeling and loves to organize things, to help people. Cédric is blogging (in French) on www.cedricgiorgi.com since 3 years now about various topics such as marketing, mobile and web trends or international issues.

Branislav Peric, Brent Dixon, Brett Macfarlane, Brian Reich

Branislav Peric
www.branislavperic.com
Branislav Peric is media director at duke, a digital shop part of the Avenue A | Razorfish network. He used to lead international digital account teams on brands such as PlayStation, Nike and Levi's. In this age of media fragmentation, he is questioning and exploring all possible answers.

Brent Dixon
www.itsjustbrent.com
Brent is designer, writer, and speaker. People, art, music, and words make him tick. He was the creative director of Trabian, an Indianapolis-based interactive agency, until 2008, when he founded The Haberdashery, a design studio and creative consultancy with a love for new media.

Brett Macfarlane
http://brettmacfarlane.typepad.com
Brett is a rare breed hybrid brand strategist and account director leading integrated brands and campaigns for DDB in Vancouver; Canada’s most creative and innovative advertising agency. He believes our industry is on the verge of the next great creative revolution. It is our opportunity and responsibility to innovate new forms of media and creative content while re-imagining the familiar forms. The world deserves less sucky advertising.

Brian Reich
www.ThinkingAboutMedia.com
Brian Reich is a Principal at EchoDitto, a group that creates vibrant communities online and empowers people through the creative use of emerging technologies. He is a regular writer and speaker on the issues involving the impact of the internet and technology on politics, society, and the media. He is the editor of Thinking About Media, a blog examining media consumption habits around the world (among other things). His book, Media Rules!, was published by Wiley & Sons in December 2007.

Bill Gammell, Bob LeDrew, Brad Shorr, Brandon Murphy

Bill Gammell
http://ubereye.wordpress.com
Bill Gammell is the Marketing/Client Services Manager for PGM Data Services, a marketing research company that collects surveys for such companies as Best Buy, MasterCard and Coca-Cola. When he is not marketing, he loves watching Seinfeld, playing basketball, reading most any book on marketing or branding, eating anything that resembles chocolate… yada, yada yada.

Bob LeDrew
http://www.flacklife.com
Bob believes that good conversation, like good music, is one of life's joys. With over 20 years experience as a journalist and public relations practitioner, Bob has been blogging at Flacklife about PR since 2003. Bob's interests are cycling, good Scotch, animation, music, and presenting house concerts. Bob is currently Director of Communications at Algonquin College, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Brad Shorr
http://www.wordsellinc.com
Brad Shorr is founder and president of Word Sell, Inc., a marketing services firm specializing in business blog development, copywriting, and communication strategy. A graduate of Northwestern University, he has more than twenty-five years experience in B2B sales, marketing, and executive management. He blogs extensively at Word Sell and elsewhere, mainly about Web marketing, writing, and his favorite niche - business cartoons. Brad and his wife have three grown daughters and live in Geneva, Illinois, USA.

Brandon Murphy
http://blog.22squared.com/
Brandon helps brands build relationships worth talking about. With 12 years experience in brand strategy and account planning, he writes at "The Consumer is Your Friend", a blog about earning advocacy and sparking conversation through actions and relationships. His interests include, well, anything his son wants him to do. Brandon is the Director of Brand Planning at 22squared located in Tampa, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Anna Farmery, Asi Sharabi, Becky Carroll, Becky McCray

Anna Farmery
www.theengagingbrand.com
Anna believes in the power of people and the importance of brand engagement. With over 20 years as a Corporate Director, she writes at The Engaging Brand about her personal experience on how brand engagement both internally and externally, can deliver profitable growth. She also runs the business podcast The Engaging Brand and is based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Asi Sharabi
http://no-mans-blog.com
Asi is a social psychologist and digital strategist living and working in London.

Becky Carroll
www.customersrock.net
Becky Carroll is the president and founder of Customers Rock!/Petra Consulting Group (www.petraconsultinggroup.com) and helps businesses keep their customers for life. Considered an expert in leveraging social media for customer loyalty, she also teaches the Marketing via New Media class at UC San Diego Extension. Additionally, Becky is a radio personality on the nationally-syndicated Big Biz Radio Show.

Becky McCray
www.smallbizsurvival.com
Becky McCray is a small town entrepreneur, the co-owner of a liquor store and cattle ranch. She writes about small business and rural issues at Small Biz Survival, based on her own successes and failures. As a consultant, she helps small businesses and small town governments to get things funded and get things done. Becky is also a noted speaker on small business issues.

Angela Maiers, Ann Handley, Armando Alves, Arun Rajagopal

Angela Maiers
www.AngelaMaiers.com
Angela Maiers is an educational consultant specializing in literacy coaching and developing 21st century learning skills. She believes that learning is a lifelong journey, an ongoing exploration and way of life. She challenges herself and others to always be striving to find and share big ideas in every million dollar conversation.

Ann Handley
www.annhandley.com
Ann Handley is an 11-year veteran of creating and managing digital content to build relationships for organizations and individuals. She has a real passion for building community, particularly in using new media content tools to broaden and build value. She is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and writes at her acclaimed personal blog, A n n a r c h y, as well as contributes to The Huffington Post.

Armando Alves
www.asourceofinspiration.com
Armando believes in fresh ideas for digital creativity. With over 10 years of experience in the Interactive industry, he writes at A Source Of Inspirations about Digital Marketing, Creativity and the Web. His interests are Interaction Design, Marketing and Buddhism. Armando is Head of Interactive at Draftfcb Lisbon, Portugal.

Arun Rajagopal
www.arunrajagopal.com
Arun Rajagopal is a copywriter at Wunderman in Muscat, a charming city in a beautiful Arabian Gulf country called Oman. His life revolves around his friends, Indian Railways, travel, social media and coffee, exactly in that order.

Andrew Odom, Andy Nulman, Andy Sernovitz, Andy Whitlock

Andrew Odom
www.anotherkindofdrew.com/blog
When not sitting in front of his computer at the helm of MinuteFix or CityPorters, Drew can usually be found behind his camera documenting the world around him. He currently lives in Brooklyn but has yet to conquer his undying affection for the sweet tea and fried chicken of his Georgia roots.

Andy Nulman
www.powrightbetweentheeyes.com
While young in spirit, Andy's a biz vet with over 30 years of experience, including launching Just For Laughs, the world’s largest comedy event and co-founding the mobile entertainment pioneer Airborne Mobile.
He's also an acclaimed public speaker/showman, a part-time rock singer and the author of 3 books, including “Pow! Right Between The Eyes!,” coming out in February for John Wiley & Sons.

Andy Sernovitz
http://damniwish.com
Andy is author of "Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking".  He is President Emeritus of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, teaches word of mouth marketing at Northwestern University, and is CEO of GasPedal. An 18-year veteran of the interactive marketing business, Andy has spent years helping the biggest brands and hundreds of entrepreneurs learn how to do better marketing. He taught entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of Business, ran a business incubator, and started half a dozen companies. 

Andy Whitlock
www.nowincolour.com
Andy Whitlock is a senior creative strategist at Poke in London. His is an advocate for putting interesting ideas in front of people and prodding them with a stick.

Adrian Ho, Aki Spicer, Alexandre Hénault, Amy Jussel

Adrian Ho
http://zeusjones.com/blog; http://twitter.com/adrianho
Adrian Ho is a founding partner at Zeus Jones. Rather than thinking of marketing as communications, they use technology and design to create marketing that does things for people. Adrian was formerly director of strategic planning at Fallon. Prior to that, Adrian worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and at Anderson & Lembke both in San Francisco. Adrian's thinking has been recognized by the IPA and EFFIEs. He is a former AAAA account planning committee member and co-chair of the national planning awards program.

Aki Spicer
http://fallontrendpoint.blogspot.com 
Aki Spicer is Strategic Planning Director at Fallon Worldwide in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he provides consumer insights, social media strategy and trends analysis for brands. He has previously served at Vigilante/Leo Burnett, and Rocawear and he is a founding officer in the Facebook philanthropic network, 'Planning For Good'.

Alexandre Hénault
www.conversationmayhem.com
After 10 years in ad sales, Alexandre founded H2H Interactif (www.h2hinteractif.com). Specialising in AdServing and ad operations, H2H Interactif is there to make people’s life easier through ad sales and ad operations processes. Alexandre’s blog, Conversation Mayhem, tries to make sense in conversations and bring it into the Internet Advertising Industry.

Amy Jussel
www.shapingyouth.org
Amy is a passionista, and the Founder of Shaping Youth, a nonprofit consortium dealing with media and marketing’s impact on kids. Amy’s embedding healthier cues in virtual worlds/digital spheres and hands-on counter-marketing games, using tactics of industry insiders. Her 25 years of experience on both the client and agency side of the business are being leveraged as applied science, to use the power of media for positive change.