Tish Grier has spent the past two years building a one-woman problogging and social media consultancy in Western Massachusetts. Some of her efforts include the community blog for iFOCOS; Assignment Zero crowdsourced journalism project for Wired magazine, and community development at NewsTrust.net. Currently, she is building community at hyperlocal citizen journalism aggregator Placeblogger.com

Jan Schaffer, former Business Editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and one of the nation’s leading thinkers in the journalism reform movement. She left daily journalism in 1994 to lead pioneering journalism initiatives in the areas of civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism and citizen media ventures. She launched J-Lab in 2002 at the University of Maryland’s College of Journalism to help newsrooms use innovative computer technologies to engage people in important public issues. As a federal court reporter, she helped write a series that won freedom for a man wrongly convicted of five murders. The stories led to the civil rights convictions of six Philadelphia homicide detectives and won several national journalism awards, including the 1978 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service.

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a social media blog. Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value. He currently serves as VP Strategy & Technology at CrossTech Media, an integrated media and events business. Chris frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media.

Mike Clark is a consultant, programmer, author, trainer, and public speaker. He helps people build better software faster through his company, Clarkware, and runs training events through The Pragmatic Studio.

Jason Falls is the Director of Social Media for Louisville-based brand-building agency Doe-Anderson and the author of SocialMediaExplorer.com, an AdAge 150 marketing blog. He is a public relations professional by trade, a former radio network producer and is co-founder of the Social Media Club Louisville.

Laura "@Pistachio" Fitton is CEO of Pistachio Consulting Inc., the first social media agency dedicated to business use of microsharing (microblogging). Pistachio creates business value for clients through innovative consulting and programs in both external market engagement and internal enterprise 2.0 collaboration. Fitton's network exceeds 5300 readers on the popular microsharing platform Twitter, and her innovative use of social media attracts international attention, as profiled by Naked Conversations author [Shel Israel]( http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/twittering-her.html), The New York Times, The LA Times, Newsweek.com, Inc.com, The NYT Magazine, Women's World and ZDNet.com. She maintains an active speaking schedule and guest lectures at Bentley College. For more information, [www.pistachioconsulting.com](http://www.pistachioconsulting.com).

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has two sons, Patrick, from a previous marriage, and Milan. He currently works for Fast Company as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

Robert Cox is the Founder and President of the Media Bloggers Association, the largest association of bloggers and citizen journalists in the world. The Media Bloggers Association is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members, supporting the development of blogging or citizen journalism as a distinct form of media and helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.