Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies.

Chris is president of Human Business Works, an online education and community company for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs. His first project there, 501 Mission Place, helps nonprofits and charities learn how to grow their capabilities. Chris is also Entrepreneur in Residence at CrossTech Ventures, where he’s working to develop New Marketing Labs and The Pulse Network, among other projects.

Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.

He has 16 years of enterprise telecommunications and wireless experience prior to all this.

Joe Sorge is an entrepreneur and a small business owner. He owns and operates a hospitality group in Milwaukee, WI with his partner and wife Angie and has recently launched Kitchen Table Companies (http://kitchentablecompanies.com) with Chris Brogan. Joe has also authored two books on Social Media for small business: #TwitterWorks and #FoursquareWorks.

Recently, Joe’s innovation with various social media tools like Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, and YouTube has earned him national recognition by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times, The Travel Channel and Entrepreneur Magazine.