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.

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.

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
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
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
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
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
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.