
On Tuesday, February 8, we're hosting a Network Roulette event to help new bloggers get advice from experienced bloggers in the Brazen Careerist community. Sign up for this event over here >>
To give you a taste of what you can expect from this event, here's some information about the blogging rockstars who have volunteered an hour of their time next Tuesday evening to give you blogging advice:
David Stehle
David Stehle is the Founder and CEO of a Network Security Consulting company by day and a blogger by night whose raw writing style has been known to suck readers in. He is listed among some of the top Gen-Y blogs, has been a Featured Blogger on 20SB.net and holds the unofficial title of "most controversial and most commented post ever on Brazen Careerist." David has been blogging for 6 years, has written over 1,000 posts and is in the process of building a new blog! And just like Ketut, he says…"I will teach you everything I know."
Website: www.diamondkt.blogspot.com
Jamie Nacht Farrell
Start up veteran with executive management roles in Marketing, Sales, Training, and Operations. Managed teams of multiple bloggers, SEO strategies, and recently started own blog that was just chosen to be on Guy Kawasaki's ALLTOP site. Lover of authentically unique people, plunging oneself out of their comfort zone, and lifetime learner.
Website: www.bizrelationships.wordpress.com
Elisa Doucette
Elisa created her site, Ophelia's Webb, in 2009 and leveraged its platform to create an online portfolio and develop relationships that eventually enabled her to quit her full-time Corporate job and work for herself as a freelance writer. She specializes in editorial and article work, generally focused on personal development, human relationships and interaction, social activism for young professionals, and her love of all things wine/yoga/bacon.
Website: www.opheliaswebb.com
Jenny Blake
Jenny Blake has been blogging for over three years at LifeAfterCollege.org, where she provides tips and resources for the BIG picture of your life: work, money, happiness, personal growth, productivity, and more. Her blog was voted #1 in a list of Top Gen Y blogs, and landed her a book deal with Running Press last year. Jenny's book, Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want comes out on March 29. Learn more at LACBook.com and follow her on Twitter @jenny_blake.
Website: www.lifeaftercollege.org
Jason Mollica
Jason Mollica is a social media and blogging enthusiast who launched One Guy's Journey in December of 2010. On his blog, Jason writes about public relations, career advice, and much more. Currently a public relations manager for Carr Marketing Communications in Amherst, N.Y., Jason also has vast experience in television and radio that adds to his repertoire.
Website: www.oneguysjourney.wordpress.com
Elysa Rice
Elysa Rice has been in the gen y blogging space for 4 years. With over 50 guest contributors, Elysa's blog GenPink has received recognition as a top blog for female 20somethings. Although blogging started as a hobby, her lessons in engagement and content creation led to her full time position as Community Manager for tech startup Bizzy.
Website: www.genpink.com/
Vincent
By day, Vincent is the Director of Curriculum at the SIFMA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, teaching primarily students in grades 4 -12 about the importance of sound saving and investing. At night, he is the founder of Cranial Gunk, a curriculum design consultancy specializing in interdisciplinary approaches to teaching core academic and life skills. He blogs on a variety of topics. Visit http://cranialgunk.org for his thoughts on books, media, and life.
Website: www.cranialgunk.org
Jennifer Beese
Jennifer has been blogging since 2002 when LiveJournal was still cool. Through her blog, freeandflawed.com, she became a Nintendo Brand Ambassador, wrote weekly freelance articles for three websites and was discovered by her current company, Border Stylo, where she is now their Community Manager. Since closing Free and Flawed, Jennifer now maintains a personal at bottleupthecrazy.com and two company blogs.
Website: www.bottleupthecrazy.com
Ben Donahower
Ben Donahower has been blogging about politics and news since 2004 as a founding columnist of Keystone Politics, at one time the leading Pennsylvania politics blog. Since, Ben has blogged for local Democratic Party organizations, Hillary for President, and recently started Campaign Trail Yard Signs to take the confusion out of political signs.
Website: www.campaigntrailyardsigns.com
Vickie Elmer
Vickie Elmer has been a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines for almost 20 years, contributing regularly to the Washington Post and its sister publication Capital Business. She also writes about careers, workplace issues and business for Fortune magazine, AARP Bulletin and the Ann Arbor Observer, and she blogs about careers, creativity and kindness at Workingkind.com and Glassdoor.com. Considered creative, competitive and collaborative, Vickie believes in the power of volunteering, kindness, connections and entrepreneurship, and has helped establish three start-ups including Mity Nice.
Website: www.workingkind.com
Patrick Pho
Patrick Pho is a millennial, social media flack, blogger, stage manager, videophile, and Quarter Life Crisis enthusiast. He blogs about how social media and other forces are changing life for Generation-Y.
Website: www.dmbosstone.com
Marquis Parker
Marquis Parker is a business strategist, coach, advisor, mentor, and award-winning blogger on topics of MBA student life and admissions, careers, and business concepts. His blog started in October 2003 as a way to share his experiences as a business school applicant and continued through his time as an MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Over the years, he has written about the ups and downs of growing into a business professional and, since 2006, he has used his blog as a forum to provide advice and insights to his reader community on a wide range of topics.
Website: www.marquisparker.com/blog
Renee Powers
Renee is a graduate student studying online communication, pop culture, and the influence of blogging. She has kept a blog since she was 13, and currently writes at BelleRenee, acts as blog editor for 20-Something Bloggers, and also maintains blogs for various academic projects.
Website: www.bellerenee.wordpress.com
Doniree Walker
Doniree Walker is a blogger, editor, and social web strategist living in Portland, Oregon. She works with small businesses, media agencies, non-profits, and individuals who are looking to build community around their brand, website, or even their own hobbies and interests. She's on the business development team for 20-Something Bloggers and on the planning committee for the annual blogger un-conference, Bloggers in Sin City. Doniree believes firmly in champagne with breakfast, yoga as therapy, and that the people and connections in our lives are never accidents.
Website: www.doniree.com/
Grace Boyle
Grace began blogging in 2008 with no mentor and no blogging expertise. In the last two and a half years, she has successfully grown her blog, Small Hands, Big Ideas into one of the top Gen Y blogs, launched a second blog about food, and also works at blogging startup. She loves to mentor and give back to other bloggers while exercising patience (she knows how it feels to be confused) since blogging has now become her world.
Website: www.smallhandsbigideas.com
Cathy Reisenwitz
Cathy Reisenwitz is an SEO Specialist for a large, multi-national corporation by day and a freelance SEO by night. She blogs at Birmingham SEO Blog.
Website: www.cathyreisenwitz.com/birmingham-seo-blog
Ben Lang
Started my first business at 14, selling goods on eBay. Was interviewed on Channel 12 TV news. Founded EpicLaunch.com, a popular blog for young entrepreneur.
Website: www.benjaminlang.com
Nick Cicero
A social media strategist at Daytona Beach's Benedict Advertising/honkfish, Nick has anchored campaigns like the recent Extreme Makeover: Home Edition build, as well as the nationally recognized program Healthy Monday and more. As a musician, he has been able to harness the power of social networking and now regularly supplies music tracks for TV shows and brands like Ford and the New York Giants.
Website: www.honkfish.com
Stephen Gibbons
Stephen has turned a love for John Madden Football into a community of over 3,000+ passionate fans. With over 85 video blogs and 300+ written articles he has emerged MaddenBible.com as the premier tips & strategy site on the web for Madden 2011. He has seperated himself by providing unique and consistent content for his community!
Website: www.maddenbible.com
Page Huyette
In my work as a designer and teacher I am constantly pushing to create something different, always with a positive "anyone can do it if they try" attitude. To succeed as a blogger, you need this attitude along with an understanding of why your blog offers a unique perspective -- why do people want to read this? What will they take away from this post that they can use in their lives? I have worked hard to build a positive reputation with people I work with and enjoy sharing my experiences with others so they can succeed in chasing their dreams.
Website: www.blog.vidaflora.net
Maggie McGary
Maggie McGary is an association community & social media manager and has been blogging for over five years. She was recently named 2011 Publishing Trendsetter of the Year in the association community for her blogging and social media leadership within the association community.
Website: mizzinformation.com
Erica O’Grady
Erica O’Grady is the #1 Erica on Google – well most days anyway. She is currently the CXO of Peanut Butter Media, Founder of The Art of Workshops, and sits on the Advisory board for Knowbility.org, CreativeSpace, & Westwood College. She blogs at: http://reinventingerica.com and is the On The Road Correspondent for The Business Maker’s Radio Show heard on Talk Radio 950 KPRC. Erica has been blogging since 1998.
Website: www.reinventingerica.com/
John Pham
John entered the blogging world circa 2006. During the same time, he also entered the elusive world of vlogging on YouTube. Over the years, John creatively chronicled anecdotes of his life through words and videos. Whether it's a funny story, recalling the days of being a teacher to inspiring people to run, John can attest that he's a nobody, but he hopes to inspire somebody. You can find his videos on his YouTube channel, Phampants, and his personal blog here: phampants.com.
Website: www.phampants.com
Tiffany Monhollon
Tiffany Monhollon has started successful, award-winning blogs both personally and professionally. With over 5 years of blogging experience, she has managed teams of bloggers, using creative ways to keep the ideas flowing and beat writer's block. She's also interviewed figures like leadership experts Ken Blanchard and Patrick Lencioni and celebrities like Richie Supa of Aerosmith fame and rapper Chammillionaire. In her day job, she currently does content marketing, social media, and community for ReachCast, a social media service for small businesses. She writes about the personal/professional divide in social media (among other things) on her blog, Personal PR.
Website: www.tiffanymonhollon.com
Annabel Candy has been running her own web design and internet marketing company since 1998. She set up her blog Get In the Hot Spot in August 2009 and her writing has been featured on some of the most popular blogs on the Internet including Problogger, Copyblogger and Zen Habits.
Annabel recently wrote Successful Blogging in 12 Simple Steps to help new bloggers and small business owners set up their blogs faster and get results. It covers everything from planning and setting up your blog to writing and promotion.
Website: www.getinthehotspot.com
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