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Lunatics
and asylums
Wikis,
blogging, social networking, podcasting, user generated content,
folksonomy. With media consumers becoming media creators, the
lunatics are set to take over the asylum.
So how
will this trend evolve? What is fad versus fundamental? What
opportunities exist for the smart business or consumer brand to tap
into this trend?
Expert Panel
includes:
- Cameron Reilly, CEO,
The Podcast Network
- Duncan
Riley, Blogging Evangelist
- Jim
Stewart, Director - Google Guru, Stew Art Media
Moderator: Jonathan
Hoel, OMC and PR Junction Podcast
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Profiles
Cameron
Reilly
Cameron
is the Owner and CEO of The Podcast Network, the world's first
podcasting business. He is the host of "G'Day World" (the very
first Australian podcast), as well as several other podcasts on
TPN, including a show about Napoleon Bonaparte and a show about
Enlightenment. Cameron was recently included in B&T Magazine's
list of the "40 Biggest Players of Australia's Digital
Age".
Before
launching The Podcast Network, Cameron worked in a variety of sales
and consulting roles with companies such as Microsoft and OzEmail
and once repossessed cars for a living.
The
Podcast Network is an independent media company that currently
produces 100 audio and video shows with a monthly audience of over
500,000 people from around the globe. In December 2006, TPN was
included in EContent Magazine's list of the 100 most influential
digital content companies in the world.
Duncan
Riley
Duncan
Riley is a writer, developer, speaker and blogging evangelist.
After many years online, including stints authoring politically
focused websites he discovered the then new blogging in 2002,
founding The Blog Herald which went on to become a Top 100 blog
worldwide at the time. In 2005 he co-founded the b5media blog
network, a company now based in Canada that took $2 million US in
Venture Capital funding in 2006.
Duncan
has a diverse background. Having started in merchant banking in
Sydney in the mid 1990’s he’s had stints in Management and as a
staff member to a Federal Member of Parliament.
Duncan
left b5media in late 2006 and now enjoys his time as a freelance
writer and developer, including time writing for TechCrunch, the
4th most popular blog online and regarded by many to be the bible
of Web 2.0.
Born in
Sydney, Riley now resides in Australind, Western Australia where he
finds himself married with 1 child and a rather large
mortgage.
Jim
Stewart
Jim
Stewart has been an Internet Consultant for 13 years. He has
appeared on The Panel, A Current Affair and was on ABC radio for 5
years as a technology correspondent.
He has
been the architect for some of Australia's biggest webcasts
including Black Eyed Peas, Melissa Etheridge, Sting many others. In
1999 he designed built Australia's first online radio stations.
From
1998 he was the host of the popular daily technology news show IOB
Coffeebreak which had over 50,000 viewers per month. Jim has
consulted to Govt. Broadcasters in Pakistan, Brunei, Malaysia, Sri
Lanka & Fiji on streaming technology. Stew Art Media's current
clients include Victorian State Govt., Austrade QBE
Insurance.
Moderator: Jonathan
Hoel
Jonathan Hoel produces
the PR Junction podcast www.prjunctionpodcast.com .
With an
Australian and international audience, PR Junction is where public
relations, media and marketing practitioners come together to
discuss how organisations can achieve better results by
communicating more effectively, including through the use of social
media.
Jon is
a Melbourne-based public relations practitioner who works for OMC
Media, a PR consultancy with a special emphasis on promoting
sustainable business through media-led campaigns and industry
coalition-building.
Jon has
also worked in government communication, and in front-line customer
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