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Gary Vaynerchuk, WineLibraryTV.com | No. 46

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I had the pleasure of meeting Gary Vaynerchuk, or "Garyvee" as he's known, for the first time at the South by Southwest Interactive conference. At the conference, it didn't take long for me to realize why the founder of Winelibrarytv.com and author of recent book, Gary Vayner ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Stephanie Agresta, Affiliate Karma | No. 45

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Like many of my guests, Stephanie Agresta wears many hats. She's a blogger at Internet Geekgirl, CEO of Affiliate Karma and co-founder of the TechSet event series. Stephanie is also a friend and an all around good person to know (did I mention that she's well connected?) D ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Janna Anderson, Elon University | No. 44

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In addition to being an associate professor at Elon University, Janna Anderson is also  the director of the Imagining the Internet project. In her spare time, she does contract research for Pew Internet. Oh, and she's also written a book called Up for Grabs: Future of the Internet ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Cali Lewis, GeekBrief.tv | No. 43

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Cali Lewis is the host and co-producer of GeekBrief.tv. She also blogs, podcasts and Twitters in her spare time. She and her husband got started in social media with the help of a man they call the "Podfather" a.k.a. Adam Curry. Yeah, the MTV (now Mevio) Adam Curry. ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Stowe Boyd, /Message | No. 42

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Stowe Boyd is a well-known blogger for /Message (over 70k followers) and front man for Stowe Boyd and the Messengers (his consulting gig). He's also bullish on social tools ("obsessed" is the word he uses). I've met Stowe several times and recently heard him spe ...     Read entire post

 

 
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N. Nash & J. Hariani, Bearingpoint | No. 41

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Nate and Jay are the Click and Clack of social media at Bearingpoint. Offiicially, they have the titles of manager (Nate) and senior business consultant (Jay) in the emerging markets sector at their company but seriously, these guys are a true team. For instance, during o ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Lewis Green, L&G Business Solutions| no. 40

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Lewis Green is the chief communication officer and founder of L&G Business Solutions. He's also the author of several books, the most recent of which is titled, Lead With Your Heart. Recently, Lewis was kind enough to invite me to join him on a panel he was moderating ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com | No. 39

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Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, "the First Human-powered Search Engine" according to their site. I met Jason at the Milken Institute's Global Conference. Prior to the Milken Conference, I had started following Jason on Twitter a couple of months back s ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Jerry Wind, Lauder Professor & Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School | May 2, 2008 (episode 38)

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Jerry Wind is an amazing guy. I couldn't list all of his accomplishments in his title but in addition to being The Lauder Professor and professor of marketing at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), he's also the director of the SEI Center for Advanced  S ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Erin Kotecki Vest, Blogger for Momocrats/Huffington Post and More | April 7, 2008 (episode 37)

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Erin Kotecki Vest aka "Queen of Spain" has been categorized as a "mommy blogger." After getting to know her a little bit through our podcast and our brief encounter at SXSW, I'd say she's really more of a blogger that happens to talk about topics that ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger, Direct2Dell | April 4, 2008 (episode 36)

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Lionel Menchaca is Direct2Dell's Chief Blogger. I met him at the "Conversations" party at South by Southwest Conference and he was kind enough to do a podcast with my colleagues, Jim Storer and Colin Browning. But it was only a 10 minute podcast and having liste ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Brad Bostic, President & Co-founder, ChaCha | March 26, 2008 (episode 35)

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Brad Bostic is the president and co-founder of ChaCha - a company that uses real people (guides) to answer your questions. ChaCha is one of the 50 plus companies featured in our We Are Smarter Than Me book but interestingly enough, I bumped into Brad on Twi ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Guy Kawasaki, Author & CEO, Garage Technology Ventures | March 28, 2008 (episode 34)

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Guy Kawasaki's official title is CEO of Garage Technology Ventures but like many of my guests, it's hard to pin him to just one title. He's also an author, a serial entrepreneur and even a bit of an amateur comedian. If you've ever seen him speak in public, you'll realize ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Jason Falls, Social Media Explorer, Doe-Anderson | March 18, 2008 (episode 33)

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Jason Falls is a social media explorer at Doe-Anderson, the fifth oldest ad agency in the US. I met Jason at South by Southwest (SXSW.) After talking with him for a half hour at the Blogger Party Sunday night, I realized there was going to have to be a podcast w ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Steve Baker, Sr. Writer, Businessweek & Blogspotting | March 14, 2008 (episode 32)

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Steve Baker is a senior writer for both Businessweek and well-known "business meets technology" blog, Blogspotting. He's been a jounalist for over 20 years and is just about to publish his first book titled, The Numerati. During our conversatio ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Tim O'Reilly, CEO & Founder, O'Reilly Media | March 13, 2008 (episode 31)

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Tim O'Reilly is the CEO and Founder of O'Reilly Media. While often credited with coining the term, "Web 2.0," it was actually his co-founder, Dale Dougherty that came up with the term back in the late 90's. However, Tim did admit that it was the use of ...     Read entire post

 

 
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SXSW Podcasts | March 8, 2008 (special edition)

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My colleagues Jim Storer, Colin Browning and Heather Strout were fortunate enough to attend the South by Southwest (SXSWi) Interactive Conference earlier this week. While were were there, we had the opportunity to do 15 podcasts with an all star cast of folks including Robert Scoble, Shel Israel, Ben McConnell, Jeremiah Owyang, Chris Heuer and many ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Michael Bayer, CEO & Founder, Utterz | February 13, 2008 (episode 30)

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Michael Bayer is the founder and CEO of micromedia up-and-comer, Utterz. Originally built as a way to record short podcasts via your cell phone, his company has now gone multimedia and is taking the social media world by storm. Listen in as Mic ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Sylvia Marino, Executive Director of Community Operations | February 08, 2008 (episode 29)

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Sylvia Marino is the executive director of community operations at online auto review guru, Edmunds.com. In addition to being a very nice person, she's also learned a thing or two about community best practices over her 12+ years in the space. Liste ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist | February 05, 2008 (episode 28)

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Craig Newmark is the founder of  Craigslist, one of the first and now largest online communities on the Web. In addition to being the founder of Craigslist, Craig also likes to be introduced as a customer service representative (he actually asked me to put that ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Steve Rubel, SVP, Edelman & Micropersuasion Blogger | January 18, 2008 (episode 27)

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Steve Rubel wears many hats. He is an SVP at world-reknowned PR firm, Edelman, a contributor to AdAge and the owner/author of award winning blog, Microspersuasion. During our interview, Steve and I talked about what inspires his daily posts for Micropesuasion ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Sean O'Driscoll, General Manager, Microsoft | January 04, 2008 (episode 26)

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Sean O'Driscoll is a General Manager of community support services at software behemoth, Microsoft. Reportedly, Sean has been in Redmond longer than Bill Gates. Okay, that's an exaggeration but he's been there for 15 years which is a long time by anyone's standards. ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Robert Scoble, VP Media Development, PodTech | December 18, 2007 (episode 25)

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Robert Scoble is the VP of Media Development at PodTech, but that's not all. You may have heard of his blog, Scobleizer.com, or maybe the his video project called the Scobleshow. Oh yeah, and he's leaving PodTech in January but hasn't decided what's next. Find out why he ...     Read entire post

 

 
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Dave Summers, Producer, New Media, AMA | December 14, 2007 (episode 24)

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