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Ronald Lewis and Deborah Kline Interview

December 12, 2008

Deborah Kline speaks about how web 2.0 social media provides new tools to connect using many of the same techniques that applied in the past. She talks about her excitement about what she has learned at #tas08 and how she is looking forward to applying her new knowledge. Video by Ted Wahler

Ronald Lewis and Brian Yuhnke Interview

December 11, 2008

Brian Yuhnke talks about the theme of the weekend – passion – and the power of bringing the community together. Colorado has a vibrant community that is rising in visibility. The message is: Be passionate don’t be fake. Video by Ted Wahler

Ronald Lewis and Elizabeth Yarnell Interview

December 10, 2008

Elizabeth Yarnell shares her impressions of the first day of #tas08, the power of twitter and the Colorado new media scene. Video by Ted Wahler

Ronald Lewis and Dave Taylor Interview

December 9, 2008

Dave Taylor speaks about his Keynote on the historical context of where podcasting and blogging come from, everyone has a desire to be heard. Graffiti shows the power of the desire to get a message out – that people risk prison for the need to speak. Video by Ted Wahler

Ronald Lewis and B. Hopkins Interview Day One – Thin Air Summit 2008

December 8, 2008

Ronald Lewis interviews B. Hopkins about passion, consistency, learning and sharing knowledge

Featured Speaker: Lucretia Pruitt

Lucretia Pruitt is an ex-programmer and CIS professor, Lucretia Pruitt (@GeekMommy) left the glamorous world of academia for the fast-paced world of being a stay-at-home-Mom. But once a geek, always a geek. Her blogging habit started back in 1998 and she's had one or more ongoing blogs since. After years wading about in Social Media she discovered Twitter and the unique environment enticed her to jump in both feet first. Now listed on moms.alltop.com and twitterati.alltop.com, her current collaboration with WalMart - as one of their "11 Moms" - was brought about via Twitter.

Keynote: Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

Keynote: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research focused on Social Computing for the Interactive Marketer. In this role he publishes industry reports and provides social media council to clients. He also writes a daily blog called Web Strategy by Jeremiah (http://web-strategist.com/blog) and speaks at Technology, Web, PR, and Marketing conferences about web and media strategy.

Before Forrester, Jeremiah’s was responsible for the strategy and development of corporate web programs at PodTech.net an online media network as the Director of Corporate Media Strategy. Jeremiah founded and lead the Community Marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems and has experience in Web Marketing, Intranets, Extranet and User Interface Design at companies such as Exodus Communications, Cable and Wireless, and World Savings (now Wachovia).

Jeremiah Owyang holds a Bachelors in Marketing from San Francisco State University.