{"id":20,"date":"2011-07-27T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/books\/crowdsourcingtweet\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2014-03-20T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:43:53","slug":"authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/crowdsourcingtweet\/authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

KIRUBA SHANKAR<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kiruba\"<\/a>Kiruba Shankar\u00a0is CEO of\u00a0Business Blogging<\/a>and Director of\u00a0F5ive Technologies<\/a>. He has 15 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.<\/p>\n

This book, \u2018Crowdsourcing tweet is his third book. His first book is titled\u00a0\u2018Wikipedia : A Beginner\u2019s Guide\u2019<\/a> and his second is titled, \u2018Unconference : Why the Audience is Cleverer than the Speaker<\/a>\u2018. He is parallely working on two more titles,\u00a0\u2018Copyright and <\/a>Left\u2019<\/a>and\u00a0\u2018Personal Branding Tweet\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has authored technology columns at the New Indian Express, Business Standard and Financial Express Newspaper . He was an official blogger for NASSCOM and IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India).<\/p>\n

For two years, he sat on the advisory board of\u00a0RangDe<\/a>, a microfinance initiative supported by ICICI Foundation.<\/p>\n

Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at\u00a0Asian College of Journalism<\/a> and\u00a0Madras Advertising Club<\/a>. He has lectured on Social Media at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore and IIT Madras.<\/p>\n

Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp and\u00a0Proto.in<\/a>, a premiere event showcasing startups.<\/p>\n

Kiruba is the Ambassador for TEDx program for India. He has helped organize\u00a0TEDxChennai<\/a>. He is the curator of\u00a0Cerebrate.in<\/a>, an international event for achievers.<\/p>\n

He is a professional podcaster and hosts\u00a0Kiruba.TV<\/a> where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies BusinessWorld Magazine ranks his blog\u00a0Kiruba.com<\/a> as one of India\u2019s top blogs.<\/p>\n

Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons and lived to tell this tale.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL LEVY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"mitchell-levy\"<\/a>Mitchell, \u00a0CEO, Happy About<\/a> is a strategist, educator & prognosticator helping companies succeed by putting tools in the hands of corporations and individuals to allow them to create their own success. Books are his latest and most powerful toolset.<\/p>\n

He is a frequent media guest and a popular speaker, lecturing on business and management issues throughout the U.S. and around the world. He has started 13 companies\/joint ventures since 1997 and has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies. He has been involved with educating the public for the last 15 years by:<\/p>\n

1. Authoring 11 books on various business topics<\/p>\n

2. Running the\u00a0Silicon Valley Executive Business Program<\/a> as well as a networking group for CXOs called\u00a0CXOnetworking
\n<\/a>
\n3. Hosting a 750+ member CEO forum on eCademy, a social business network and for four years was involved with a networking group for CEOs called\u00a0CEOnetworking
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Creating and running the\u00a0Value Framework\u00ae Institute<\/a> which focused on creating, managing and deploying successful business models<\/p>\n

5.Being the founder of San Jose State University Professional Development\u2019s most successful professional development program \u201cE-Commerce Management\u201d from \u201999-03<\/p>\n

6. Being the conference chair at Comdex in \u201900 and \u201901<\/p>\n

7. Creating his own conference in \u201900 on E-Commerce Management<\/p>\n

8. Running an on-line eZine since \u201999 which boasts over 5,000 subscribers<\/p>\n

9. Running the strategic consulting company\u00a0ECnow.com<\/a>which has provided consulting to over 100 companies<\/p>\n

10. Starting a Web presence company in \u201995 which created over 25 commercial Web sites<\/p>\n

11. Starting a traditional publishing company in \u201991<\/p>\n

Mr. Levy is also on the Board of Directors of\u00a0Rainmaker Systems<\/a> (NASDAQ: RMKR).<\/p>\n

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KIRUBA SHANKAR Kiruba Shankar\u00a0is CEO of\u00a0Business Bloggingand Director of\u00a0F5ive Technologies. He has 15 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com. This book, \u2018Crowdsourcing tweet is his third book. His first book is titled\u00a0\u2018Wikipedia : A Beginner\u2019s Guide\u2019 and his second is titled, \u2018Unconference : Why the Audience is Cleverer than the Speaker\u2018. He is parallely working… <\/p>\n

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