In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Chris Brogan, a new media expert and co-founder of PodCamp, about using new media to build connections in business.

Chris Brogan’s Bio

Chris Brogan is a new media guru with ten years of experience using social media and technology to build relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. He is also the co-founder of the PodCamp conference series, which explores the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.  Chris’ own blog, where he works with all kinds of new media, is in the top 200 on Technorati.

Chris Brogan currently serves as VP Strategy & Technology at CrossTech Media, an integrated media and events business. He frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media. In fact, you can catch both Chris and Rob in a panel discussion on blogging as a business at Blog World Expo on September 21st.

Prior to working in the media and events space, Chris had over 16 years of telecommunications experience in wireless and landline technologies.

In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interview Mike O’Neil, founder of Integrated Alliances (IA) about the social media training courses offered by IA.

Mike O’Neil’s Bio

Mike O’Neil, 48, is a technologist, a visionary and a leader in the world of technology, on-line social media and the application of these important elements to the area of business in 2008 and beyond. He has a BSE in Industrial Engineering, is a Cisco Certified Design Associate and he resides in Denver, Colorado. Mike is also a graduate of the Dale Carnegie program.

Mike started Integrated Alliances (IA), a business and social networking and training company, in 2003. At IA, Mike has taught over 100 LinkedIn Workshops and Webinars.

Mike O’Neil got started in speaking and training in the mid 80’s. In the 90’s, Mike worked with computer and related manufacturers to deliver internal training to the large systems integrators. Mike also spoke at annual conventions as a technology expert.

As the industry matured and networking expanded into telecom and Internet, Mike began to deliver internal training on technology, telecom and Internet related topics. Mike also taught channel partners on how they could incorporate his company’s solutions with the offerings of the channel partners. These trainings were to the executive teams, the partner managers, the sales team and often to the technical staff.

Mike has been repeatedly featured in the press on the topic of technology, LinkedIn, recruiting, sales training and business networking. Mike usually has his picture included in the stories. Mike is near completion on a book about using LinkedIn for Sales and Marketing.

Mike can be reached at moneil@integratedalliances.com or by phone at 303-683-9600. Integrated Alliances can be found on the web at www.integratedalliances.com.

In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Scott McDaniel, the co-founder and lead designer at SurveyGizmo about using and designing online surveys.

Scott McDaniel’s Bio

Scott McDaniel is the co-founder, CEO and lead designer at SurveyGizmo. He has been passionate about entrepreneurism and designing friendly, usable web applications for over 10 years at companies such as MarketingSherpa, LexisNexis, MessageMedia, and DoubleClick.

McDaniel has a background in science, with a Masters degree in Volcanic Geo-Chemistry. He built his very first web page way back in early 1997.