Age of Conversation Authors

David Petherick, David Reich, David Zinger, Deanna Gernert

David Petherick
http://digitalbiographer.com
Described by the BBC as the world's first Digital Biographer, David's blog offers tools and tips to improve visibility and credibility online. He has co-founded several companies in his home city of Edinburgh, including NewsBase and Clarocada, and writes for The Next Web, based in Amsterdam. David 's wife and daughter, also speak Russian and Spanish, but he normally wears the Kilt. He loves cooking for guests, Formula 1, travel, literature, meeting new people, and sharing new ideas online.

David Reich
http://reichcomm.typepad.com - "my 2 cents"
David Reich is president of Reich Communications, Inc., a public relations agency in New York City. In his 35 years in p.r., he has served a wide range of clients, from Jaguar Cars to L'eggs Pantyhose and Phillips Petroleum. His agency currently does a lot of work representing companies in advertising and media.

David Zinger
www.davidzinger.com 
David Zinger has a Master’s of Education degree specializing in counselling psychology. David’s primary work is in employee engagement. His site includes over 400 articles on the topic and he founded the Employee Engagement Network with over 500 members. David lives in Winnipeg, Canada and is the father of 3 teenagers.

Deanna Gernert
http://whythulc.wordpress.com
Deanna Gernert works in marketing at a small software company in the Great-Lakes region of the United States. She is a writer of ten years and dabbles in things like blogging, non-profit volunteering, and web design.

David Armano, David Berkowitz, David Koopmans, David Meerman Scott

David Armano
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/
David Armano is both an active practitioner and thought leader in the worlds of experience design and digital marketing. Author of the popular Logic + Emotion blog, he has been invited to speak at events hosted by organizations such as Google, Microsoft, O’Reilly and Ad Age. David currently works for Critical Mass, a veteran digital agency focused on the creation of extraordinary experiences. He also writes industry perspectives for Ad Age, BusinessWeek and is best known for his distinct brand of visual thinking, which can be found both on the Web and in presentations all over the world.

David Berkowitz
www.marketersstudio.com
David Berkowitz is Director of Emerging Media and Client Strategy with digital marketing agency 360i in Manhattan. He's been blogging since 2004 and has written over 400 articles for MediaPost, eMarketer, and other publications. He frequently speaks at industry and private events on media, marketing, and technology. He's a notorious sweet tooth; if you're in NYC he'll grab chocolate-doused waffles with you at Le Petit Belge on 14th St.

David Koopmans
www.mokummarketing.com/blog 
David Koopmans is a leading B2B marketer from Melbourne, Australia. He currently holds a position in a marketing management role with Aconex, the world's largest provider of online information management and collaboration tools to the construction and engineering industries. Before Aconex, David ran a successful B2B marketing consulting business in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. His understanding of the online marketing environment is an important asset in developing modern B2B marketing strategies. David writes a blog, but only when he has something to say.

David Meerman Scott
www.webinknow.com
David Meerman Scott is a keynote speaker, seminar leader, entrepreneur, and author of the number one best selling PR and marketing book The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, viral marketing and online media to reach buyers directly which is being published in 20 languages. Download his free ebook The New Rules of Viral Marketing: How word-of-mouse spreads your ideas for free at http://www.davidmeermanscott.com/documents/Viral_Marketing.pdf

Daniel Sitter, Daria Radota Rasmussen, Darren Herman, Dave Davison

Daniel Sitter
http://www.idea-sellers.com
Daniel Sitter, author of both Learning For Profit and Superior Selling Skills Mastery, has garnered extensive experience in sales, training , marketing and personal development
spanning a successful twenty-seven year sales career.

Daria Radota Rasmussen
www.socialhallucinations.com
Daria is Strategic Planner er Vizeum in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a sociologist and has worked in the communication business for the last 8 years. Daria is fascinated by human interactions and explores tools and ways to facilitate them. She believes that you can't accomplish anything great without passion. She is also a photographer and cook.

Darren Herman
www.darrenherman.com
Darren believes life is short but sweet for certain so boring PowerPoints should be illegal. With over 12 years in digital media, he writes at DarrenHerman.com and AdAge Digital Next about advertising, technology, and media. His interests are skiing, the Dave Matthews Band, photography, and cooking. Darren is a Group Director & Head of Digital Media at kirshenbaum bond + partners' Media Kitchen out of New York, NY.

Dave Davison
www.thoughts-illustrated.blogspot.com
Dave authors the blog www.thoughts-illustrated.blogspot.com where he holds forth on his belief that a picture is worth 1,000 words. Dave is a Principal at InnovationLabs www.innovationlabs.com, and he is a frequent poster on the subjects of collaboration and innovation on their blog at www.permanentinnovation. His life's goal is to seek "the patterns which connect" in homage to his hero Gregory Bateson.

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.