Robert Scoble

Robert is a blogger, video producer and social media fanboy.

Blog: Scobleizer.com
Twitter: @scobleizer
Friendfeed: scobleizer

Craig Newmark

Craig is the founder and customer service representative of Craigslist.

Blog: cnewmark.com
Twitter: @craignewmark
Friendfeed: craignewmark

Sarah Lacy

Sarah is the author of “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0.” She is a reporter for BusinessWeek and co-hosts the Web video show Yahoo Tech Ticker.

Blog: Sarahlacy.com
Twitter: @sarahcuda
Friendfeed: sarahcuda

Howard Rheingold

Howard is the author of Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs.

Blog: http://www.rheingold.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hrheingold
Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/howardrheingold

He was editor of Whole Earth Review; editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog; founding executive editor of Hotwired and founder of Electric Minds, Visiting Professor, De Montfort University, UK

He has taught Participatory Media and Collective Action at UC Berkeley, SIMS, Virtual Community/Social Media at Stanford and UC Berkeley and Digital Journalism at Stanford.

Current projects: The Cooperation Project and Social Media Classroom

Meghan Asha

Blog: http://www.nonsociety.com/meghan
Twitter: http://twitter.com/meghanasha
Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/meghanasha
What you should know about me: You can find Meghan at whatever tech conference is happening this week (TechCrunch50, CES, Digital Life & Design in Munich, etc.). Meghan lives in New York and travels frequently to Silicon Valley, where she grew up. She’s an unapologetic geek.

JD Lasica

JD is a social media strategist, knowledge aggregator, entrepreneur, journalist, author and media maker.

Blogs: Socialmedia.biz & Socialbrite.org
Twitter: @jdlasica
Friendfeed: jdlasica
LinkedIn jdlasica
Facebook JD Lasica
Contact: jd@socialmedia.biz

Tom Foremski

Tom, a former journalist at the Financial Times, is founder of Silicon Valley Watcher.

Blog: Siliconvalleywatcher.com
Twitter: @tomforemski
Friendfeed: tomforemski

Sarah Austin

Sarah, who travels frequently between New York and the SF Bay Area, is founder of Pop17.

Blog: Pop17.com
Twitter: @pop17
Friendfeed: sarahaustin

Susan Bratton

Susan is CEO and co-founder of Personal Life Media.

Podcast: DishyMix
DishyMix in iTunes
DishyMix Fan Club
Blog: Dishymix.com
Twitter: @susanbratton
Friendfeed: susanbratton
LinkedIn susanbratton
Facebook http://profile.to/susanbratton/
Flickr luvlotus/
Backstage pass Video introduction

Also:

• Vice Chairman, Association for Downloadable Media http://downloadablemedia.org
• Chair Emeritus, ad:tech Conferences
• Board of Directors and Advisory Board Member of ZEDO, Inc., Jingle Networks, NewsForce, Inc., Powered, Inc., Collarity, Inc., Merchant Circle, Inc. and the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association

Contact susan@personallifemedia.com

Jeff Saperstein

Author, teacher, consultant and enabler in how technology can be used to create organic growth in economic development for regions and success for organizations.  As co-founder, I organized the trip to Israel in April 2008 and was a co-organizer of the London/Cambridge trip with JD Lasica.

My work and personal fulfillment is in helping others to be successful through applications of education, business, and relationships. I teach at San Francisco State University, European School of Management in Paris, and on-site at Cisco and other corporations. My published books and case studies are focused upon best practices for innovation (Toyota: Driving the Mainstream Market to Purchase Hybrid Electronic Vehicles is one of the top ten most popular business case studies for business schools). I have worked with government, private corporations, and NGO’s to use marketing leveraged by technology, metrics, and processes to increase growth.

Website: Creatingregionalwealth.com
Blog on Israel: http://www.sapermktg.wordpress.com

Renee Blodgett

I blog, shoot video and photographs in the world of Web 2.0 and technology and have launched companies and products from 11 countries, lived in 10 and explored more than 65. Founder of  We Blog the World, a blog dedicated to global storytelling and the latest highlights in social, cultural and technology trends.

Blog: http://www.downtheavenue.com
Blog: http://www.weblogtheworld.com
Site: http://www.blodgettcommunications.com
Twitter: @MagicSauceMedia
Twitter: @weblogtheworld
Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/reneeblodgett
Smugmug: http://weblogtheworld.smugmug.com

Jim (”call me Sky”) Schuyler

Sky is CTO of The Dalai Lama Foundation, an international foundation for ethics and peace. Also doing digital media strategy and implementation for a number of projects.

He is a computer scientist who used to start companies in educational software, including DesignWare (Britannica Software), and works now with nonprofits and in mixed-reality games and artforms.

Blog: Sky.dlfound.org
Twitter: @jimsky7