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Liz Strauss is a brand strategist and social web community builder and is perhaps the most influential “real-ebrity” on the Internet. Liz has over 20 years in print, software, and online publishing, and has strategized with publishers in Europe, Australia, the UK, and Ireland. She was recently a featured speaker at the Cass Business School of City University in London and teaches a Master’s Level class at the CityU School of Publishing. She has been named to the Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers, The Invesp Top 100 Most Influential Marketers of 2008 and again in 2009, the 50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of Social Media, and NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers. The WordPress Plugin Liz Comment Counter by Ozh was named in her honor to celebrate her dedication to responding to the readers of her blog.
You can also follow Liz on Twitter (she’s @lizstrauss), and on Facebook.
Terry is a native Midwesterner now living on the East Coast, spreading ìrealistic optimismî through a philosophy he calls “Half-Fullism.” He’s been in the business world for over 25 years in various leadership positions, most recently as a senior operations executive for a service business based in the Rocky Mountain west. Terry is a constantly learning student of leadership and personal development, and shares his ideas, experiences and knowledge through his blog, Ramblings from A Glass Half Full.
You can also follow Terry on Twitter (he’s @starbucker), where he loves to play virtual disk jockey and share his love of music, and on Facebook.
Inspiration guaranteed! Arko’s mission in life is to stimulate and promote entrepreneurship. And that’s exactly what he does, with 100% energy, dedication and inspiration. In Arko’s vision, entrepreneurship is the answer to most of the challenges of our society will meet the coming years. Van Brakel is a recognised specialist in the personal and strategic aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation. His fascination for success-factors and the reasons behind the success of people and companies is a promising basis for his inspiring and energetic trainings, workshops and lectures. The subjects Arko covers vary from online marketing and social media to authentic leadership and innovation. He always chooses the personal approach. He is not afraid to tell about his failures and the way he learned from his failures: if you never failed, you never lived.
You can also follow Arko on Twitter (he’s @arkovb), and on Facebook.
Joost de Valk is a well-known specialist in the fields of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), content marketing and web development, and often speaks on these topics on conferences throughout the world.
After having spent several years at various online marketing agencies, Joost currently is a freelance consultant, working for clients such as eBay, Facebook, RTL and other large and small companies. Next to his work as an SEO consultant, public speaker and developer, Joost has built several WordPress plugins (over 5 million downloads) and blogs about WordPress and SEO on his blog yoast.com.
You can also follow Joost on Twitter (he’s @yoast), and on Facebook.
Pieter is a full time and full life serial entrepreneur since 1983. Dutch born and based but having lived in various countries. Originally Pieter studied electronics, later economics and more recently psychology. A rare combination of right brain and left brain use. Currently heading up Dutch based Refresh Interactive and again combining both sides of the brain in offering result-driven and relevant internet solutions. Specialized in Customer Experience 2.0, online Customer Experience. Pieter wonders about the sudden and deep changes in how we live, work, lead our lifes and buy.
You can also follow Pieter on Twitter (@pyotr), and on Facebook.
Erno is a mentor, author and speaker on attracting clients. His first book Attracting Clients (Dutch: Laat de klant naar jou komen) covers the main part of his Best People Attraction Model. Beginning 2012 his next book will be released, Picking your niche (Dutch: Kies je doelgroep). Initiator of the Social Media Club in the Netherlands and co-organiser of SMC Amsterdam. Initiator of WordCamp Netherlands. Founder of the Social Media Event. Now he brings you SOBCon Europe.
Twitter friend, Facebook fan and your LinkedIn connection. Loves to make people enthusiastic, follows trends especially on social media and marketing.
You can also follow Erno on Twitter (@ernohannink), and on Facebook.
