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COO and Co-Founder of BlogHer.com

BlogHer began as a labor of love in February 2005, when founders Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins launched a conference for women who blog. She is a co-founder of BlogHer and manages its events, marketing and corporate operations. After 13 years of marketing in Silicon Valley, she left high tech product management in 2003 to go online and join the social media world. She was one of the earliest professional and business bloggers and currently write or contribute to eight blogs. She blogs at various times about marketing, health issues, green and eco-conscious living, being a vegan, and reality TV talent shows like American Idol and Project Runway! She has a monthly column for the Silicon Valley Metro called Silicon Veggie. Today BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub (http://www.blogher.com), and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates (http://blogherads.com). BlogHer Inc. is run by its three co-founders and has backing from Venrock, the Peacock Fund and Azure Capital Partners.

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The founder of Ubercool, Michael Tchong, is an internationally recognized speaker on emerging trends in business, culture and media. Ubercool® is a next-generation, Internet marketing service that develops and produces branded entertainment events that immerse premium audiences in innovative online and offline infotainment. The company embraces Michael’s transformational imprimatur, living up to its mission of “bringing innovation to life.” Michael is the also founder of MacWEEK and ICONOCAST, which produced multi-million-dollar conferences, including one starring basketball legend Dennis Rodman and another featuring a Broadway musical. Michael began his career at illustrious ad agencies Chiat/Day and DDB, after which he pioneered such emerging categories as desktop publishing, personal communications and online marketing. Michael strongly believes that the successful organizations of tomorrow will address the changing consumer lifestyles of today. His insight was developed during a distinguished career that spanned such advertising agency icons as Chiat/Day and Doyle Dane & Bernbach, further enhanced by a remarkable career in software marketing, publishing and the Internet. Born on the Caribbean island of Aruba, Michael speaks Dutch natively ? factors that have contributed to his global vision.

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CEO DidIt.com and noted author on Search Marketing

On today's show we were joined by DidIt.com co-founder and CEO Kevin Lee. From co-founding the company in 1996 to his election as SEMPO Chair, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, in 2005, Kevin Lee has shaped both Didit and the entire search engine marketing field.

As author of the seminal work on search strategy, Search Engine Secrets; a weekly columnist for the search engine news source ClickZ; and a frequent contributor to Catalog Age, Kevin's influential views on Search Engine Marketing have been read by thousands.

Apologies for the technical difficulties in the first 5 minutes of the show. With the wonder of downloading and iTunes, you can fast forward to the 5 minute mark of the show to listen to it.

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Author of Click and GM Global Research with HITWISE

Bill is a leading authority on what people are really doing online and what it means for business and society. Join us for a discussion with Bill about what is happening on the Social Media front, with facts and figures to back it up! Mining his company's database of more than 10 million Internet users every day, Bill answers questions about what people are really doing online and how they use Internet-based services, from searching to commerce and online giving.

Brilliantly adept at understanding the patterns in this data, Bill also speaks on what our behavior means—how we think and act, as consumers, citizens and Net surfers, what are the hot new trends, how we interact with one another.

Bill is the author of Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters—Unexpected Insights for Business and Life.

Offering a truly unique and all-new perspective on human behavior, Click analyzes how we search on the Internet, where we go, and what we do there. The results are surprising and indispensable to companies trying to reach consumers and anyone interested in the evolution of the Net-connected life.

Bill Tancer is general manager of global research at Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence services company. He is widely quoted on the latest Internet trends. He appears as a frequent guest on CNBC and has been quoted in major print and online media.

Bill writes a weekly column for Time magazine (Time.com) called "The Science of Search" and a weekly column for The Wall Street Journal called "Click."

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Join us to hear the perspective of Dan Neely, CEO of Networked Insights. Networked Insights builds software tools that analyze the social web to help advertisers and marketers make better strategic and tactical decisions. They're not just interested in the loudest voice in the room and tracking the things you already know about. They listen to the silent majority (in addition to the vocal minority) and uncover concepts that you might never be aware of. They generate insights that provide a continuous feedback loop for companies. It's a HAL-9000 for today's company. The coolest thing about Networked Insights is that every day they learn something new from their colleagues, so the topic for this show will be determined not by an executive producer somewhere, but by what Dan sees between now and then. Cool huh? The social-media landscape is in constant motion and both SocialMediopolis and Networked Insights are always working on new things to stay on the leading edge of this wave. It's a great puzzle to solve and we're all glad to be a part of it.

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Founder of Help a Reporter Out (HARO)

PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking,” and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective.” Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you harness the power of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and make it work to your advantage.

Peter is perhaps best known for founding Help A Reporter Out, (HARO) which in under a year has become the de-facto standard for thousands of journalists looking for sources on deadline, offering them more than 100,000 sources around the world looking to be quoted in the media. HARO is currently the largest free source repository in the world, sending out over 1,200 queries from worldwide media each week. HARO’s tagline, “Everyone is an Expert at Something,” proves over and over again to be true, as thousands of new members join at helpareporter.com each week.