Back To The Future - Beyond Web 2.0 January 31, 2007

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Back To The Future - Beyond Web 2.0

Moderator:
Jeremiah Owyang, Director of Corporate Media Strategy at Podtech.net

Speakers:
Harry McCracken, Vice President/Editor in Chief at PC WORLD

Sean Ness, Co-Founder at STIRR.net & Business Development Manager at Institute for the Future

Dmitriy Kruglyak
CEO & Community Steward, Trusted.MD Network

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Date: 1/31/2007 Wed
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
6:30pm-7:30pm Networking/Food & Drink
7:30pm-9:00pm Presentations & Discussion Panel
Location: Hurricane Electric, 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont CA 94539

Admission is FREE but requires Registration

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Jeremiah Owyang
Director of Corporate Media Strategy at Podtech.net

Jeremiah Owyang is an established Web Strategist, as well as a popular blogger and podcaster in the Social Media industry.

Jeremiah Owyang is the Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net offering consultation to clients on how to deploy Web Strategy and Social Media.

At Hitachi Data Systems Jeremiah spearheaded the corporate blogging strategy and other social media that empowered key executives to publically evangelize the corporate message.

Jeremiah has held a variety of web related roles at companies such as World Savings, Cable and Wireless, and Exodus Communications. Jeremiah holds a Bachelor Degree in Marketing from San Francisco State University.
Jeremiah Owyang blogs at: web-strategist.com

Harry McCracken
Vice President/Editor in Chief, PC WORLD

Named Editor in Chief of PC World in March 2004, Harry McCracken oversees all editorial and design for PC World, PCWorld.com, and the PC World Test Center. His areas of expertise include the Internet, PC service and support, digital imaging, and other aspects of technology; his "Up Front" column opens each issue of the magazine. McCracken also authors PC World’s Techlog, a Web log with news, opinions, and links on PCWorld.com.

McCracken has won numerous honors for his work at PC World, including Jesse H. Neal Awards for "Best Subject-Related Series" in 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2002, a 2000 Grand Neal Award from American Business Media, was recognized with the 2004 American Business Media’s Western Award for Editorial Courage and Integrity, and recently won a 2005 min's Best Of the Web Award for Best Blog. He has appeared as an industry expert on television and radio programs on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the BBC. He also collaborated with Dateline NBC on a multi-state undercover investigation into PC repair in 2000 which aired later that year. A past contributor to USA Today, Family Circle, and other publications, McCracken was named to the Technology Marketing Influencers list in 2002 and 2003. A 15-year veteran of technology journalism, he served as an editor at InfoWorld and Computer Buying World prior to joining PC World in 1994.

McCracken has been a screener for the Jesse H. Neal Awards for the past three years, and also judged the National Magazine Awards for 2003 and 2004. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of American Business Media, and was a judge for ABM’s Littleford Awards for Public Service in 2003.

A graduate of Boston University with a Bachelor’s degree in history and a minor in English, McCracken has lived in Massachusetts, Oregon, and London, England, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sean Ness
Co-Founder at Stirr.net & Business Development Manager at Institute for the Future

Sean Ness oversees Business Development for the Institute for the Future (www.iftf.org), a Palo Alto-based think tank and is a Co-Founder of the STIRR Network (www.stirr.net). Prior to IFTF & STIRR, he has served in business development roles for startups (desktopstandard & eSelf) and market research firms (Forrester Research & ComputerWire). He has a BS in Materials Engineering from Penn State University.

Dmitriy Kruglyak
CEO & Community Steward, Trusted.MD Network

Dmitriy Kruglyak is CEO & Community Steward of Trusted.MD Network (http://trusted.md), social networking service designed to empower trust-based relationships between healthcare consumers, professionals and organizations.

He chairs the Healthcare Blogging Summit(http://trusted.md/conference), which is the premier conference on healthcare blogs and social media, held once in 2006 and planned three times in 2007. Dmitriy also originated HealthTrain, the "Open Healthcare Manifesto" (http://trusted.md/manifesto), which laid out a set of common-sense guidelines for blog and social media adoption by healthcare organizations and garnered numerous endorsements.

Dmitriy is passionate about the potential of open online communities to improve health & wellness for consumers and practice environment for healthcare professionals. As a milestone to that vision, Trusted.MD Network has already become the world’s largest community of health & medical bloggers.

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