The Social Network Show welcomes Michelle Kelley to the September 22, 2014 episode.

Michelle Kelley, a licensed counselor and owner of Girls Stand Strong answers the question, What is an empowered woman? She defines power versus empowerment and explains how she helps women to make changes in their lives to become more empowered. Michelle states that many women are disconnected from their personal needs and how this is one step in making changes in their lives. If this topic is something that interest you, listen to the tips that Michelle gives on becoming more empowered.

For more reading on this subject, you can read Michelle's article titled, Today's Empowered Woman, Claiming Your Voice.

Michelle Kelley, LCSW, is a licensed counselor and the owner of Girls Stand Strong, a professional counseling center in Warrenton Va. Michelle teaches girls and women how to develop the self-confidence they need to achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Through her speaking engagements, workshops, and counseling—Michelle provides girls and women with the essential tools to select and cultivate healthy friendships and relationships. Such positive relationships foster a strong emotional well-being and successful social lives. Please visit www.GirlsStandStrong.com or call 703.505.2413 for additional information.

You can check out her website.

The Social Network Show welcomes Drew Curtis to the September 15, 2014 episode.

If you love to look at the humorous side of our world, you may want to hear about this social network, Fark.com. Drew Curtis, founder and administrator of Fark.com shares the evolution of Fark, from how it started to where they are now. Drew shares a little information on the 3 million unique visitors he has per month and what they appreciate about this online network. Drew also shares with us the recent ban on misogynistic comments on Fark.com and the reactions he got to this move.

Drew Curtis is the founder and an administrator of Fark.com, an Internet news aggregator. He is also the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. He is a guest on WOCM's morning show The Rude Awakening Show every Tuesday. Curtis registered Fark.com in 1997 but did not begin posting links on the site until 1999. The first story on Fark was a news article about a fighter pilot who crashed while attempting to moon another fighter pilot. Since then, the site has become one of the most popular link dump sites on the internet.   It was the first indie blog to earn one million dollars a year in profit.

In 2006, Curtis was featured on the cover of Business 2.o magazine as the feature in a story about successful websites. Lexington Weekly named him one of their businessmen under 40 to watch.

Curtis published his first book, It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. It soon became a bestseller. An in depth analysis of the state of modern media, It's Not News, It's Fark slams news organizations for running smaller versions of his not-real-news.

Drew Curtis graduated from Luther College. From 1996 to 2002, he owned and operated DCR.NET, an ISP. He is a graduate of the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program, a joint venture of New York’s Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

The Social Network Show welcomes Kit Gray to the September 12, 2014 episode.

If you like listening to podcasts, this is a good show to listen to. Kit Gray, President and COO of PodcastOne shares how people use podcasting as an extension of social networking. Kit gives a little history of podcasting and how he merged with Norm Pattiz to create PodcastOne. He tells us about the shows on their site, and you will recognize a good portion of the famous hosts.  Kit talks about the challenge of getting major brands to advertise on podcasts and their success in doing this.

Kit Gray, the President and COO of PodcastOne, brings over ten years of sales representation experience in traditional spot terrestrial radio sales, network radio sales, national radio sales, mobile content sales, online sales and over the last two years has become a proven sales leader in the podcast medium.Kit connected and developed a podcast offerings on a network basis to advertisers developing a demand for a new medium. Mr. Gray's podcast sales quickly advanced into seven figures for such shows as the Adam Carolla Show, Jay Mohr's Fake Mustache, The Nerdist, Maria Menounous' AfterbuzzTV, Penn Jillette, Tom Segura and more.

Kit has worked with media agencies in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. In 2005, Mr. Gray won Seller of the Year for Katz Media Group, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications. He was the first person to sell a mobile advertising campaign for Verizon Wireless EV-DO network called Amp'd Mobile in 2007 and was the first person to sell an online digital streaming network for Clear Channel's Digital in 2009.

Kit Gray has an MBA in finance from Crummer Graduate School and he studied Environmental Studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl.

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The Social Network Show welcomes Kendall F. Person to the September 8, 2014 episode.

Kendall F. Person, an author of three books tells his story about how he became a blogger and what he is trying to accomplish on his blog named, Kendall F. Person, thepublicblogger, also know as "The Neighborhood". If you want to visit a blog that is different than what you are used to, we suggest you check this one out. Kendall shares how he mixes fact and fiction in his writing, how he got the idea of using multimedia (music, art, photos) on his site, the very special annual event he holds every year on New Years Eve and what is in store for him in the future.

Kendall F. Person, an author of 3 books and founder, editor, creative director of thepublicblogger.com, and a former marketing director, welcomes you to The Neighborhood. Here you have collaboration with visual, recording and other written-word artists. There are thought-provoking editorials, imaginative reviews, poetry on every level and breathtaking fiction, that shies away from no subjects or taboos. This is a forum which gives way to civil discission and an exchange of knowledge, wisdom and peace, and by engaging readers, with not just the artists, but one another, an ordianry blogging platform, the level of entertainment and inspiration, has been raised. Kendall's mission is to provide entertainment and to initiate discussion, on a global platform of peace, by delivering thought-provoking editorials, imaginative reviews and breathtaking short-story fiction writing as a performance art and every post is a show.

What really defines thepublicblogger, is the literature - at an altitude, simply unheard of. With the 3rd annual Thepublicblogger Awards set for New Year's Eve, with the mind-blowing debut of Season IV only six months away, they are hoping, The Neighborhood will become your option, when only a good read will do.

Check out Kendall's blog, his books on Amazon, An Angry World, The Remembrance and Capturing Spring

The Social Network Show welcomes Rebecca Lieb to the September 5, 2014 episode.

Rebecca Lieb, an industry analyst at Altimeter Group shares information about content marketing with us. She explains what is meant by the term "content marketing" and how the internet has allowed a lot more people to create a lot more content. Rebecca answers the following questions: what is aggregating versus curating content? what is content strategy? how do you find an audience for the content you create? how does an agency like Altimeter Group do market research? what is native advertising? is there any value in press releases? and how important is word of mouth marketing?

Rebecca Lieb is an analyst at Altimeter Group where she covers digital advertising and media, an area that encompasses brands, publishers, agencies, and technology vendors.

Rebecca previously launched and oversaw Econsultancy’s US operations. She was VP and editor-in-chief of The ClickZ Network for over seven years. For a portion of that time, she also ran Search Engine Watch.

Earlier, Rebecca held executive marketing and communications positions at strategic consultancies, including Siegel+Gale, and has worked in the same capacity for global entertainment and media companies, including Universal Television & Networks Group (formerly USA Networks International) and Bertelsmann’s RTL Television. As a journalist, she’s written on media for numerous publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She spent five years as Variety’s Berlin-based German/Eastern European bureau chief. Until recently, Rebecca taught at New York University’s Center for Publishing, where she served on the Electronic Publishing Advisory Group.

Her book, The Truth About Search Engine Optimization, published by FT Press, instantly became a best-seller on Amazon.com. Her most recent book, Content Marketing, published in October 2011.

Based in New York City, Rebecca is a former film critic who still spends way too much time watching hyper-obscure movies — when she’s not scouring the outer boroughs for southeast Asian cuisine.

Recent Research

Content Marketing Software RFP: A Framework to Determine Needs & Solicit Proposals

Webinars

The Content Marketing Software Landscape: Marketer Needs & Vendor Solutions

Frameworks

Seven Steps of Content Marketing Software Selection

Books

The Truth About Search Engine Optimization

Custom Research

Why Mobile is Essential for Brand Marketers, with Facebook

The Social Network Show welcomes Professor Anupam Chander to the September 1, 2014 episode.

Professor Anupam Chander, a law professor, Director of the California International Law Center and author of The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce talks about how the borderless internet has changed commerce around the world. The rise of the internet has connected people all over the world not just regarding communication, but trade of services. Professor Chander talks about how commerce has changed; the benefits of purchasing services outside of your country and how the differences in laws in each country affect this process.

You can connect with Professor Chander on Twitter, learn more about him at U.C Davis faculty site, and check out his book  The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce

Professor Anupam Chander

He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, Stanford Law School, and Cornell Law School. He has published widely in the nation’s leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the NYU Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, Texas Law Review, and the California Law Review.

A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

He serves as a judge and commentator at the Harvard-Stanford Junior International Law Faculty Forum. His writing has received honors from the American Association of Law Schools and been selected for presentation by the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

Education

J.D., Yale Law School 1992

The Social Network Show welcomes back Dr. Elizabeth Englander to the August 29, 2014 episode.

Dr. Elizabeth Englander, a professor of psychology and the director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center talks about some disturbing online trends that kids have to deal with, specifically sexual harassment. Dr. Englander, who informs us that there is very little research on this issue, talks about the research that she did on sexting among youth. Hear the reasons why kids send naked photos of themselves to other people; hear why kids are pressuring their peers to participate in sexting; hear why some kids give into this and some don't; hear about the outcomes of sexting; and finally, hear what you can do to help your teens with this issue.

Elizabeth Kandel Englander is a professor of psychology and the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University, which delivers anti-violence and anti-bullying programs, resources, and research for the state of Massachusetts. She is the author of the book, Bullying and Cyberbullying: What Every Educator Needs to Know (Harvard Education Press; October 2013).

The Social Network Show welcomes back Dr. Maria Tatar to the August 25, 2014 episode.

Dr. Maria Tatar, a professor of folklore, children's literature and German cultural studies talks about the importance of reading to children. If you have kids, this is a good show to listen to. Hear what Dr. Tatar says about the differences of reading from a Kindle versus reading from a book; hear her top choices of books for kids; hear about the benefits of reading to kids and what emotions are awakened when reading; and hear what she says about reading fiction versus non-fiction.

Dr. Maria Tatar is a professor at Harvard University and teaches folklore, children's literature, and German cultural studies. She has written many books and is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has written for the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Harvard Crimson. Her work has also been featured on the Today Show and in Harvard Magazine.

To learn more about Dr. Tatar, visit her blog, Breezes From Wonderland or check out Dr. Tatar's books.

The Social Network Show welcomes the return of Professor Nancy Kim to the August 22, 2014 episode.

Nancy Kim, a professor of Law and Chair of the Contract Section of the Association of American Law Schools tells us the good and bad news about the "Terms of Use" agreements that we sign when we become users of a social network or other websites. Hear what she says about a particular case of a couple being fined for posting a negative review; hear how some companies are using their Terms of Use agreements to participate in "questionable" business practices; hear how we are being treated like guinea pigs by some social networks; hear about what Nancy thinks about how some social networks are powerful enough to change social norms; hear about how we could be manipulated in a way that we are not aware of.

Nancy Kim is a professor of Law at California Western School of Law, Visiting Professor at the Rady School of Management at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Chair of the Contracts Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a past member of its Executive Committee of the Internet and Computer Law Section. She is also an elected member of the American Law Institute. Professor Kim is the author of Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications (Oxford University Press, 2013) which focuses on how contracts affect and control online behavior.

Before working in academia, Professor Kim worked for several technology companies and two major law firms. She has published many articles and essays and her name has appeared in the Boston Globe, slate.com, the San Diego Union Tribune, and the Sacramento Bee, just to name a few. She is also a Contributing Editor to the Contracts Law Prof Blog, which is the official blog of the AALS section on Contracts.

You can read more about Professor Kim at California Western School of Law and connect with her on LinkedIn

The Social Network Show welcomes Malcolm McCullough to the August 20, 2014 episode.

Malcolm McCullough, Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and author of several books talks about the demands on our attention in a world flooded with media, coming to us in all different forms. Hear Malcolm talk about the flood of media and information surrounding us all the time; hear what he says about mobile technology; hear about what the attention overload does to us.

Malcolm McCullough, Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, is a widely recognized scholar on digital media culture, with nearly fifty invited talks, in over a dozen countries. His most recent book, Ambient Commons—Attention in the Age of Embodied Information (MIT Press, 2013), explores information environmentalism and the benefits of attention to surroundings. His previous book Digital Ground—Architecture Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing (2004) became a standard in many interaction design programs. Abstracting Craft (1996) is now a cult classic and once earned McCullough a nomination for a Chrysler design award (2002). Digital Design Media (coauthored with William Mitchell, 1991), won an American Institute of Architects international book award and pioneered electronic prepress. At Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Planning since 2001, McCullough teaches design studios, and courses in urban and tangible computing. Previously he served on the architecture and design faculty at Carnegie Mellon, and before that for ten years (1988-98) at Harvard. Long ago he was a pioneer of computer-aided design (CAD), at Autodesk in the 1980s. An amateur historian and backcountry enthusiast, he has traveled extensively in the continental United States. He is currently researching a book on responsive surfaces in architecture.

Learn more about Malcolm here and check out his books