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PRODUCER

Modern Media builds, produces, markets and sells business conferences and media brands for both established business media companies and for media entrepreneurs and bloggers.  Our clients include brands such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the InformationWeek Business Technology Network.  We are proud to be a partner in Ypulse and producer of the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup, which is taking place adjacent to TWTRCON on 6/1 and 6/2 at the Hotel Nikko, San Francisco. (Register for both and save some money!)

Here’s who contact if you have advice, suggestions or questions:

• Speakers and program:  John Eckhouse
• Marketing, media partnerships and registration issues:  Mary Zagrobelny
• Sponsorships: Anne Weiskopf
  
• Web site:  Christopher Carson

See you in SF on 5/31!

CO-HOSTS

Tonia Ries, CEO, Modern Media

Tonia has been twittering since she was very young, and has only recently found the perfect medium in which to utter brief, seemingly un-connected thoughts and ideas.  As the marketing and media strategist for Modern Media clients such as TechWeb, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, Tonia studies the rapidly evolving relationships between content, technology and communities and works with the Modern Media team to create branding campaigns, build online communities and develop revenue-generating brand extensions for Modern Media clients. Prior to founding Modern Media, Tonia was the VP Marketing for Ziff Davis Media, VP Marketing and Sales at CMP Media’s Business Technology Group, and Associate Publisher, Marketing for InformationWeek, developing marketing strategies and creating multi-million dollar events, online and newsletter brand extensions. Tonia is the #1 twitter user (out of 1) in Montauk, New York.

Gina Smith, Partner, First30 Services

Gina Smith is a New York Times bestselling author and noted public speaker on technology and biotech. Formerly on air as tech correspondent for ABC News’ World News Tonight and Good Morning America, Gina has reached millions via her syndicated radio show Connected with Gina Smith and her syndicated newspaper column, Ask Gina. Her 2005 book, The Genomics Age, was a Barron’s Magazine top 10 book of the year. Her most recent book, iWOZ: How I invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way, written with Apple founder Steve Wozniak, is a New York Times best-seller and now is available in 15 countries. Her columns on tech have appeared in such magazines as Wired, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, Glamour and The Hollywood Reporter. @ginasmith888 can be found twittering in San Francisco.

ADVISORS

Mike Edelhart, CEO, LiveDeal, Inc.  and Founder, First30 Services

Mike is a long-standing media and internet start-up investor and executive. Currently, Mike is  CEO at LiveDeal, Inc a NASDAQ company that delivers classified, IYP and small business services over the Internet. Mike is also founder of First 30 Services, a new company-creation consultancy. Previously, Mike was CEO of DeepDyve, which has developed revolutionary technology for high end search and was chairman of the board of Olive Software, a Sequoia backed XML software developer, where he earlier was CEO. Mike is on the Board of Directors of Good Health Ad Network; Advisor, Aggregate Knowledge; Advisor: SmaSh Technology; and Advisor: Intridea. Mike was also the CEO of Inman News, the leading provider of information, analysis and events to the residential real estate community, and Zinio Systems, which produces and distributes magazines in digital form.  Mike joined Zinio from Redleaf Group, an early stage investment company where he was Sr. Director of the San Francisco office.  Prior to Redleaf, he was founder and CEO of Intagio (formerly “BarterTrust”), an, international clicks-and-mortar non-cash exchange network. Previously, Mike was President and CEO of Third Age Media and a Vice-president at SoftBank, where he directed content for the Seybold, Interop and Comdex conferences and launched new businesses in online education, conferences and consulting.  Prior to SoftBank, Mike spent thirteen years at Ziff Davis in a variety of executive and editorial positions.  He was the original Executive Editor of PC Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of PC Week and Editor/Publisher of  PC/Computing. Mike has served as an Internet strategies consultant to Bloomberg, Reuters, AARP and other major media and Internet companies.  Mike, the author of more than 25 books on subjects ranging from Intel processors to the social history of Virginia and earth sheltered housing design, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado.

Harry McCracken, Founder and Editor, Technologizer

Harry McCracken is the founder and editor of Technologizer, a Web site and community about personal technology, from the Web to phones to consumer electronics. In February, 2009 he was named the #1 tech Twitterer worth following by TechRepublic. From 2004 to 2008, he was editor-in-chief of PC World, where he won awards for his editorials, blog, and other work from such organizations as American Business Media, the American Society of Business Press Editors, and MIN’s. He was also named one of MIN’s Most Intriguing People in 2007 and to the Folio: 40 list of media movers and shakers in 2008. Harry covers technology from Silicon Valley, and has written for Family Circle, Popular Science, Slate, USA Today, and many other publications.

Modern Media Team

John Eckhouse, Editorial Director

John oversees editorial research and content development. Prior to joining Modern Media, John was editorial director of events at The Industry Standard and managing editor of research and events at InformationWeek. John has programmed, hosted and moderated events ranging in scale from intimate focus groups to 1600-person executive-level conferences. He has managed B2B and B2C phone, email and Web research and event experience surveys with up to 20,000 respondents per survey. John’s career as a technology and business journalist spans more than 20 years at publications including Business Week, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle and HomePC magazine.    John is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley and on the Alumni Board of the Journalism School.

Mary Zagrobelny, Vice President Marketing

Mary is responsible for delivering strategic marketing services for media companies, associations and B-to-B clients. Prior to joining Modern Media Partners, Mary was group director, marketing for Ziff Davis Media working to launch publications, events and consulting services (CIO Insight, Baseline, Smart Partner, Custom/Conference Group and Baseline Business Information Services), as well as creating marketing programs for established Ziff Davis brands (eWEEK, PC Magazine and Ziff Davis Smart Business). Mary also served as a senior marketing executive at CMP Media for such brands as HomePC, NetGuide and Windows magazine.

Chris Carson, Creative|Technology

Chris spends half his time writing ad creative and the other half writing code; he’s very glad the two vocations are converging.  You can reach him @chriscarson.