Featured Speakers

Ava B (Podcamp City Online Co-Organizer)

Ava is the owner of AvaHosting Communicationss AvaHosting.Biz - Marketer of Quick Podcast, and Founder of the non-profit SMILE - Single Mothers In Loving Entrepreneurship network and Podcast. A single mom owned and operated full service Internet Services and Telecommunications Provider featuring Web Hosting, Toll Free ISP, DSL, and T1. A Technology Company that you can know and trust, with many services and products including cellular, local and long distance phone service, toll free, voicemail, calling cards, and much more! Ava has many years experience with computer/internet consulting, marketing VOIP, teaching small businesses how to include social media and web conferences into their meeting schedule and educating them about podcasting. She has been featured in NY Newsday and other local publications, and all over the internet talking about her business and networking. Ava is a former concert and nightclub promoter and now a Co-Organizer for Podcamp City Online! Are you a single mom with your own podcast or business or would like to help one? Go to http://www.myspace.com/avaontheweb !

Bruce C (Podcamp City Online Co-Organizer)

Bruce is the web developer and CEO of successful podcast network, PodcasterWhosWho.com, the Who's Who of Podcasting and Long Island Podcast Network as well as a smooth jazz sax player and podcaster. Bruce is the CEO of Hot Web Ideas, Inc, a web design firm which has developed over 230 web sites since 1995 for small businesses as well as major fortune 500 corporations including JP Morgan Chase, UBS (Swiss Bank), ADP, and Korg.

Sessions: How To Upgrade Your Podcast to a Podcast Network and The Power of the RSS Feed and using it to get more subscribers

Rob

After 15 years in the food , pharmaceutical and biotech industries as a Chemical Engineer and Operations Manager, Rob decided to pursue his passion of Social Entrepreneurship online and founded Community Enabler Pty. Ltd. of which he is currently the CEO. Rob is a firm believer that the path to a better world is to empower business entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. Podcasting and other forms of Social Media, Social Networking and eCommunity Building are the start of some fundamental changes to society. Rob will explore how Podcasters are well positioned to take advantage of positioning themselves as experts and benefit by creating trust relationships. Session:

Dr. Kathy King is president of Transformation Education, LLC, a professor of education at Fordham University, and co-producer of several podcasts including Podcast for Teachers. Kathy has designed multi-partner projects, innovative programs, and distance learning for corporate training, adult education, k-12, and higher education settings. Kathy’s Information: transformationed.com AND podcastforteachers.org

Sessions: Podcasting on a Budget for Everyone

Lisa Tolliver is a popular lecturer and media personality. Publishing social media is one way the Emmis Communications Phenomenal Woman Award winner pursues her "four eyed" mission to inform, instruct, intrigue and inspire.

Lisa's creative and cultural productions are made possible, in part, through the sponsorship of The Field (they grow art!), and with funding provided by: 360 MERIDIAN (they're all around world class!).

Session: The Power of Podcasting

Taylor Marek, The Taylor Marek Podcast

Taylor Marek became involved in the podcasting realm in early 2006 and started his own podcast, the Taylor Marek Podcast, in August 2006. This podcast is the ONLY Globally Syndicated 3-in-1 podcast on Finances, Business, and Technology. Currently it has been sponsored by GoDaddy and GoToMyPC and is mentioned in the book "Podcasting for Profit" by Leesa Barnes. To listen to the podcast, head on over to www.taylormarek.com.

Sessions: Making money with your Podcast

Vik Rajan, viksmarketingblog.com

Vik is the author of the Personal Brand Marketing podBlog. He is a published business columnist and writer with over 15 periodicals, including Times-Ledger Newspapers of Queens (NYC), Dominican Times Magazine, Hauppauge Reporter, and more. Vik is also the co-founder of CoGrow Systems, Inc., a business development firm for small business owners. I help lawyers, accountants, financial planners, and real estate experts, and other experts leverage their personal brands.

Sessions: Podcasting by Phone, Access more listeners; brand your expertise more easily.

Ralph Mucci from The Wedding Planning Audiocast

Ralph Mucci is executive producer & show host of the Wedding Planning Audiocast. The Internet's on-line authoritative wedding planning talk radio show. The wedding podcast with the top wedding industry leaders sharing their expertise, and offering their advice, secrets & tips on a wide array of wedding planning topics & issues.

Sessions: How to get noticed with your Podcast

Jack J Ward of Sonic Society

Jack J. Ward, author, actor, teacher and speaker is the dynamic founder of both the Sonic Society and Sonic Cinema Productions. With co-host Shannon Hilchie, the Sonic Society is the most popular and longest running pod/broadcast that features the very best in audio drama all around the world. Writer and Producer of over 50 original audio plays, Jack is a passionate advocate for storytelling, drama, and scriptwriting.

Sessions: Audio Cinema/Radio Drama. It just might Save Your Life!

Fred G.Castaneda has been podcasting for several years. In addition to working on rich media and new media in the corporate environment, he has had more than 4 internal podcast series (aka "intracasts" TM ) in the world of high tech companies with a worldwide reach for marketing support, sales enablement and social media. Fred will launch a new external corporate companion podcast with worldwide reach and awareness in late August/early September on iTunes. Podcasts include: Folklorico Music and Dance of Mexico at http://folkloricomusicdance.blogspot.com.

Sessions: How to Avoid burnout & Prevent Podfading