Blogger Bio

Allan Cox is a well-known board consultant and CEO coach whose career spans more than 30 years and includes work with numerous global corporations. He began his career in executive search with Spencer Stuart & Associates and was a member of that firm's management committee. He has served on boards of three privately-held firms and for five years as board chairman of Chicago's Center for Ethics and Corporate Policy. Among his seven books are Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter and Straight Talk for Monday Morning. He's written frequently for New York Times Sunday Business, various airline magazines, Chief Executive magazine and Across the Board. For four years he wrote a weekly business column for The Los Angeles Times Syndicate. He maintains offices in Chicago and San Diego.

Topic: Your Inner CEO

My latest book, Your Inner CEO, is full of stories of winners and how they made it, and losers, and why they didn't. Each of the nine chapters is full of examples, case studies, and exercises to help readers dig deep and excavate their personal beliefs in a way that they probably have never done before. Join me for an ooVoo chat in which we can explore some of these issues and you can ask me questions about applying them to your own life.

Blogger Bio

I'm a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer and obscure broadcast personality. I'm not exactly a media whore, but I'm extremely promiscuous.

Topic: Hey, man, whatever. I'm just a trained monkey.

I write for Advertising Age and co-host NPR's On the Media. Ask me about ad criticism, the future of media and marketing or why Comcast must die.

Blogger Bio

I'm a Co-founder and Partner of The Advance Guard, a full service marketing agency focusing on emerging technology to create radical marketing programs. I've been blogging for almost seven years at CC-Chapman.com and I host the award winning music podcast Accident Hash and new media focused podcast Managing the Gray. I life in metro-west Boston with my amazing family.

Topic: How you or your business can leverage new media.

Keeping the topic open to discuss whatever is on your mind. New media, music, movies or parenting? No topic is off limits.

Blogger Bio

I advise businesses, organizations and individuals on how to use social media and social networks to build relationships and deliver value.

Topic: How social media builds relationships

Let's talk together about some of the things that social media can do to help build relationships - online and offline. I'll share my ideas, but I'm curious to know what you have to say too.

Blogger Bio

In addition to MMM, I write for Open the Dialogue at the MWW Group and I contribute to Media Bullseye and Marketing Vox.

Topic: Movie Marketing and Social Media

In advance of the Oscars and the push for summer blockbusters, let's talk about some of the latest marketing efforts that Hollywood is attempting. I'll give you my take on the latest and I'll want to hear from you. Are they working? What looks hot to you? I'll share some of my opinions on the latest and most creative marketing that I've seen.

Blogger Bio

Founder of Every Dot Connects,Connie is a communications specialist with three decades of experience as a writer, speaker and consultant. She is Executive Director of Social Media Club and helped establish the Frozen Pea Fund, inspired by artist/blogger Susan Reynolds' battle with cancer. Both Connie and Susan were networking online in the pre-Internet days and have honed their relationship-building skills through a variety of social media. In Boobs on Ice Susan shares openly about her cancer diagnosis and the role online community has come to play in her journey.

Topic: From Connections to Community: How Online Relationships Enrich Our Lives

Co-hosts - Connie Reece and Susan Reynolds

Session 1 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST -- Building Connections and Networking Online
Topics: Finding and Friending; Your Profile Is Your Personal Brand; Cultivating Relationships

Session 2 4:00 to 4:30 p.m. EST -- Taking it Face to Face: stories of meetups and tweetups

Session 3 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST -- When Connections Become a Community
Topics: How Online Communities Celebrate, Grieve; How to Talk to Someone About Cancer or Crisis; Give the Present of Your Presence

Immediately following this session, it's strictly birthday chat with Susan -- sign up for the party at the separate My ooVoo Day listing below. You know you want to put on a silly hat and wish her Happy Birthday!

Blogger Bio

Dave Delaney is an accomplished podcaster, blogger, social media strategist, and marketer. He produces and co-hosts one of the first parenting podcasts,Two Boobs and a Baby ; he co-created Nashville, TN's first BarCamp and PodCamp. He blogs at Dave Made That. Dave is also the co-host of the Twitter inspired, improvised comedy podcast, The Nothing Show.

Topic: New Media Marketing

Come speak with me about some of the current issues going on in the world of New Media Marketing. We can cover the basics, but if you'd like to get more in-depth, I'm prepared to cover that too.

Blogger Bio

I am an online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist. My latest book, The New Rules of Marketing is #1 in the Web Marketing, e-Commerce and PR categories on Amazon.com

Topic: The New Rules of Marketing

For decades, marketers have relied on buying expensive advertising and begging the media and analysts for coverage. We interrupted prospects with our egotistical messages, in the hopes of generating interest from buyers (who usually ignored us anyway).

The web has profoundly changed the rules. Smart marketers now communicate with buyers through content rich Web sites, blogs, YouTube videos, ebooks, and other online media that buyers actually want to consume. The products and services offered by tuned in companies resonate with people who willingly buy without being coerced.

Speak with me about how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers. I'll kick off with some ideas and then open it to a discussion.

To thank me for my time, ooVoo is donating $1500 in my name to the charity of my choice: the Massachusetts Air & Space Museum, of which I am a board member.

Blogger Bio

Considered a national branding expert, Drew is a highly sought after speaker and has given about a zillion presentations at national conferences, key note addresses, training for his peers in the profession, college students and even his daughter's eighth grade class. He is Top Dog at McLellan Marketing Group and writes one of the Top 25 Marketing Blogs -- Drew's Marketing Minute. Gavin is a brand and interactive marketer who loves storytelling. For the past 10 years he has worked on bringing brands to life on the agency and client side -- and has had the good fortune to work with some of the world's leading global brands. He occasionally speaks on social media to anyone who will listen and writes the Servant of Chaos blog. Being Australian, he brings a little international flavour (notice the U folks) to MyOovooDay,

Topic: The Age of Conversation

This is your chance to snap up one of 4 x 15 minute chats with Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton -- co-conspirators in the ground-breaking collaborative marketing book, Age of Conversation.

Blogger Bio

I live with my husband and our two kids in Los Angeles where I write for BlogHer.com, the Huffington Post, and work as Photrade.com's evangelist. All from home and all without a babysitter.

Topic: Politics, Parenting or Photrade - the 3 P's!

Let's talk about anything related to parenting, politics (there's been word that an election is coming up...), or photo sharing. Check out Photrade.com and feel free to ask me any questions about it. Of course it's your chat-you tell me what you want to talk about.

Blogger Bio

I've worked as a marketing strategist in the Washington, DC region for 15 years. My blog Buzz Bin blog is the top-ranked independent PR blog in the region and my book on social media, Now Is Gone with Brian Solis, was just released in the fall of 2007.

Topic: Now Is Gone or anything about social media

Let's discuss the book or anything that you'd like to cover related to social media. These are exciting times and there are always a wealth of topics to talk about.

Blogger Bio

Advertising creative consultant. Admired and loved by every one I come in contact with! I am also very reserved !!!

Topic: The State of the Ad Industry: George Sounds Off

Blogger Bio

Justine or (iJustine) resides in Pittsburgh, PA as a freelance graphic/web designer and video editor. While Justine jokingly claims to be the internet, there aren't many places online you won't find her. When it comes to video content, the complete collections of craziness can be found on her blog.

Topic: The Internet

Let's talk about the one thing that I love more than anything else...the internet. Dates and times coming soon!

Blogger Bio

You'll know Irina as that cute, recognizable face on geekentertainment.tv. Irina is the founder of The Winnies, and one of the organizers of this summer's Off the Grid Vlogger Camp

Topic:

The charity that Irina has chosen to support is Pie Ranch, a center for education and social change. ooVoo will be making a gift of $1500 to Pie Ranch in her name to thank her for hosting these chats.

Blogger Bio

Jack Myers established one of the media industry's more well-recognized brands through 25-years of thought leadership and respected b-to-b publishing and research services for the media, advertising and entertainment industries, with primary focus on television and interactive media.

Topic: Ask Jack Myers

Join me and three of my colleagues from Media Villiage - Ed Martin will sit in on four sessions, Jerry Weinstein will be with me for two sessions, and Erin Donnelly for one.

1. Getting a job in the Media and Advertising Business, with Erin Donnelly
2. Will there be a Media and Advertising Recession?
3. Anything you'd like to know about the Media and Advertising Business
4. About your favorite television shows

To thank me for my participation, ooVoo is donating $1500 to the charity of my choice: The Paley Center for Media.

Blogger Bio

John Wall co-hosts the Marketing Over Coffee Podcast with Christopher S. Penn. This weekly program covers both classic and new marketing strategies and tactics. John has held positions specializing in CRM and sales support systems at both venture funded and privately held businesses (companies including MarketingSherpa and the Digital Consulting Institute), and has been helping businesses grow for more than 10 years. You can read more about him at www.RoninMarketeer.com or listen to his weekly audio program at www.TheMShow.com

Topic: Using the web and common sense to grow your business - and answering all questions about marketing

Think of this session as Marketing Over Coffee...on video. We'll chat about how to use the internet to grow your business, and share an open forum on general marketing questions. Or we can just talk about gadgets, ninja stuff, and how to fight at the local Dairy Queen.

Blogger Bio

I am President and Chief Interruptor of "crayon", a strategic advisory group, specializing in community, dialogue and partnership AKA conversational marketing. ooVoo is a client of ours and we're very proud to have them. I am also author of best-selling "Life after the 30-Second Spot" and most recently,"Join the Conversation". Finally, I have a blog and podcast, both named "Jaffe Juice".

Topic: Besides getting to know you all, anything to do with Jaffe Juice, Life After the 30-Second Spot or Join the Conversation

Join the conversation with the guy who's literally written the book on the subject! I'm happy to talk to you about topics related to conversational marketing, new marketing, social media, creativity and the list goes on.

Blogger Bio

I'm a deaf mom to three deaf and hard of hearing kids. The hubby is deaf too. Kaycie, our Westie, can hear a rabbit breathing a half mile away. I grew up hard of hearing and became deaf at the age of 19.

Topic: It's an Open House!

I'm hosting an "open house" - try using ooVoo with me! To thank me for my time, ooVoo is donating $750 to Hands and Voices and $750 to the Frozen Pea Fund in my name.

Blogger Bio

Laura Fitton (aka @Pistachio) is a superhero. The full extent of her powers is not yet known. To get some idea of how she thinks, what she knows, and the problems she can solve, read her blog ( www.PistachioConsulting.com) and her twitterstream (www.twitter.com/pistachio). She loves to talk. She's good enough, she's smart enough, and doggone it, people like her.

Topic: 10 minutes to a presentation that rocks MUCH more!

Laura will take participants step by step through a 10 minute "fire drill" guaranteed to make any presentation more effective. You're encouraged to submit a presentation for us to overhaul live during the session.

Blogger Bio

Marshall Kirkpatrick is a Lead Author at Read/WriteWeb. He hails from Portland, Oregon, USA. Marshall also runs an independent consulting practice in online software and marketing. Prior to joining R/WW in Sept 2007, Marshall was Director of Content at SplashCast Media. During 2006 he was Lead Blogger at TechCrunch.

Topic: Let's test out ooVoo

How do you like this ooVoo thing? Let's check it out together!

Blogger Bio

When Google wanted to explain online marketing to the top retailers in the United States (including Wal-Mart, Costo, Sears and Sephora), they brought Mitch Joel to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Marketing Magazine dubbed him the, "Rock Star of Digital Marketing" and in 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Mitch Joel is President of Twist Image - an award-winning Digital Marketing agency. He is a marketing and communications visionary, interactive expert, community leader, Blogger and Podcaster. He is also a passionate entrepreneur and speaker who connects with people worldwide by sharing his marketing insights on digital marketing and personal branding.

Topic: Social Media, Web 2.0 and this crazy new world of Marketing and Communications

Dates and times coming soon!

Blogger Bio

Robin Good is an independent online publisher based in Rome Italy, and the first Italian to change his career and make a full living from the Internet. He is a communication and media researcher as well as an experimenter and reporter of the new and effective uses of new media technologies. His flagship site, Master New Media, is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian and it is chock-full of in-depth information enabling individuals to become more effective communicators and professional online publishers. His online video channel (Robin Good TV) offers quality selections from the Internet as well as live reports from Rome, and he curates an alternative video news channel (RGTV News) too by aggregating daily international news stories that you may not be able generally to catch on your mainstream TV network channels

Topic: Professional Online Publisher: How to Publish and Promote Your Videos Online

How do you set up your online video or television channel? In this open-clinic you can find out all you want to know about video publishing online and the tools and skills required to become a professional online video publisher.

What video formats do I need to use?
How much does it cost to host and sitribute my videos online?
What service should I use to broadcast live?
Where can I find great video content to republish?
How can I aggregate other people clips and create my own channel?
Can I broadcast live from anywhere I am?
These are the topics on which I am going to share with you everything I know.
If you want to come by just to have a feel of what videoconferencing or talking with me is all about you are also very welcome.

Blogger Bio

A creator of novels, short stories and screenplays, Scott's work revolves around modern science's dichotomy of simultaneously producing good and evil.

Scott reinvented book publishing when he released EarthCore as the world's first "podcast-only" novel. Released in twenty weekly episodes, EarthCore harkened back to the days of serialized radio fiction and picked up 10,000 subscribers along the way.

His next podcast novel, Ancestor , drew 30,000 listeners and saw 700,000 episodes downloaded by fans. The Ancestor buzz caused Sirius Satellite to pick up the novel, making it the first audiobook serialized on the satellite network. Combined with Scott's other two podcast novels, Infection and The Rookie, Scott's fans have downloaded over 3 million files of his fiction.

Scott's innovative use of technology puts him at the forefront of modern-day publishing, and has garnered brand-name exposure among hundreds of thousands of fiction fans and technology buffs.

Topic: Podcasting Fiction

J.C. Hutchins and I will be doing a fun video conference to discuss podcasting fiction (or whatever the hell else you want to dicsuss). The cool part? ooVoo is donating $1,500 to the Disabled American Veterans.

This is my preferred charity organization. I believe that we have nothing without the men and women that volunteer for our Armed Forces. Many of them die in the line of duty, yet many more are wounded while serving our contry. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced high numbers of wounded soldiers that need assistance. I don't give a rat's ass about politics here, all I care about is that some of our men and women deserve help.

If you feel the same way, you can head over to www.dav.org and make a difference too.

Blogger Bio

Steve Hall has done time in media, account management and new business at, among others, Leo Burnett, Starcom/Mediavest, BlackSheep Marketing, and Bozell, where he managed big ass marketing budgets for both consumer and business-to-business clients including Reebok, Sperry Topsider, Monster.com, Tyco, Marriott Hotels and Marshmallow Fluff. Steve has written about and spoken for industry associations on topics such as the advertising's role in consumer-controlled media, the integration of public relations and advertising, the future convergence of media, and the decline of traditional media. He is co-founder of MarketingVOX, an online marketing publication, co-founder and publisher of the ad:tech industry trade show weblog and creator of the advertising social network AdGabber.

Topic: Current events in advertising

During the chats, we'll gab about ads, the Super Bowl, your work, those Salesgenie ads and anything else you want to talk about.

Blogger Bio

I'm an artist and new media consultant battling both breast cancer and a dominant magpie gene. I've worked in as a marketing manager, in fund raising and community events, public relations, design and taught studio art . Using blogs. twitter and other new and social media I help individuals and companies raise their visibility.and create community and connections. Blogging about creativity, community and how technology makes it a fascinating field at http://www.artsyasylum.com and talking about cancer at http://boobsonice.com

Topic: Bring Your Own Party - it's Susan's Birthday

Birthday Celebration - 9PM - bring a song, a good wish, a question, a poem, some silliness, your rubber ducky or whatever