Let me start by introducing myself, and who are you?

[Michel Eek]

Since we are in the same community, I thought it would be nice if we introduced ourselfs to each other.

I will kick it off. I am Michel Eek, 39 years of age. I am living close to the coast in a small town called Schoorl together with my wife and 2 kids.
I work at De Telegraaf, at the online section for 5 years now as sales manager. I am responsible for selling over 70 online titles like telegraaf.nl and speurders.nl. I always worked in sales and marketing jobs.

So who are you?

[Nag]

Hi,

I'm Narendra Nag, 29, and I live in New Delhi, India with my wife. I work at the Hindustan Times Mint, a business newspaper run in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal. I have spent equal amounts of time as a journalist in both print and television newsrooms in the last eight years. In the recent past, I have been involved with two television news startups and am currently working on my third. I specialise in newsroom integration, broadcast technology and organisational workflows.

[Harry Wilson]

Hi,
I am Harry and joined the group today (which I think is a great idea). I live in the Uk with my wife and have four grown up daughters. I enjoy sport and hold a 3rd degree black belt in shotokan karate, which is one of my most pleasing achievments (apart from raising four daughters).
I have worked in UK media for 30 years in large ad agencies in the media department, and have bought and planned many ad campaigns across all media. I ran my own media independent for 10 years and now work on my own as a consultant. One of the areas I am approached on more than any is Uk Tv advertising where I have many contacts and an area I enjoy.
I have been studying online for the past two years and build web sites and also offer web hosting, though still keep my foot in the door of traditional media.

[Paddy Douneen]

My name is Paddy Douneen. I am 44 years old and live near the beach in Sydney with my wife, 3 children and dog.
I have worked in the media industry for 22 years on both the sales and media agency side. I am currently the National Advertising Director Fairfax Integrated Solutions for Fairfax Media in Australia. I am responsible for leading the sales team servicing our top 30 national accounts across Fairfax Media's newspapers, magazines and online assets.

[Gandrasta Bangko]

I am Gandrasta Bangko, 26 years old. I work at Media Satu Group (www.mediasatu.com), Indonesian multi media publishing company. I am in the field of editorial for 14 magazines and 6 online titles... umm.. that's it.

[Rein Vogel]

Hi all,

I am Rein Vogel, 31 years old and joined the group e few days ago. I live in Holland in a famous touristic village (yes wooden shoe's, tulips and cheese (edam)) called Volendam with my wife and my little boy of 16 month's old.

I worked in the media industry for over 10 years now. Started in the (print)directory world (challenger of the yellowpages in Holland). Nowadays i am working for three years at Telegraaf Media Group (http://www.tmg.nl/?setlang=en) in the function of Sales Manager Online Sales. My team and I are responsible for selling online campaigns. Our portfolio exists out of Display Advertising (with behaveriol targeting), E-mail advertising (titels and profile's), Video advertising and Mobile Advertising.

Telegraaf Media group is representing lots and lots of mediatypes in which we really can rock with crossmedia!

TMG (Telegraaf Media Groep N.V.) is the largest media group in the Netherlands with market leadership positions in relation to daily newspapers, magazines, online and offline media and radio.

TMG is the largest newspaper publisher in the Netherlands with the prominent De Telegraaf and Sp!ts daily newspaper titles.TMG has a strong market position in the Netherlands in the magazine segment on the basis of general interest titles and on the basis of titles aimed at specific target groups.

In the Dutch radio market, TMG holds a majority interest in the Sky Radio Group, a market leader among commercial radio stations.

TMG is furthermore increasingly active in new, mostly digital,forms of media via the Internet, mobile telephones, narrowcasting and cross-media.

On the international scene, TMG has gained a position in the trade fairs and events segment through its participation in Expomedia Group plc, and in radio and television via an option on 12% of the share capital with voting rights in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, the newly formed ProSiebenSat.1 and SBS Broadcasting S.à.r.l combination.

Outside the Netherlands, TMG is active in Belgium, France, Sweden, Denmark and Ukraine: partly on the basis of multimedia publishers focused on general or specific interest target groups and partly in specialised niche markets such as puzzle magazines.

The shares in Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. are traded on the NYSE Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange

[zsofia]

Hello fellow members,

I am Zsofia, living in Belgium and working in the Netherlands at the agency side.
I've been in the sector for 7 years and quite enjoy doing it.
I started with print and outdoor, now more online and have done some TV and radio as well.
Recently I got into guerilla marketing activities and that's real fun.

Let's hear the next person!

[Neil Bridgland]

Hi there,

Welcome to the site, I have to say even though I am welcoming you, I am very new to here also.

I have been in the printing industry all my life, from spotting negatives to running presses, I have moved into the technical digital side of things now.

I am now based in Wokingham, Berkshire, UK. I am the Company Director of the Digital Print Division of Niche Communications. We run Xerox Igen machines. We have been involved in digital printing/personalised mailing for 5-6 years now, but have last year invested in software called Pageflex, which has enabled has to step up into Cross Media world.

We now produce personalised marketing campaigns for a number of clients which involves personalised mailers/ personalised emails/ PURLs with connection between all three.

So if I was to call myself an expert in cross media, I would be lieing a little, but we are getting there.

Neil

www.nichecom.co.uk
www.capsule8.com

[rangaraj]

Hi,

I live in Bangalore, the silicon Plateau (it is at 3000ft and not a valley!) of India. Been through 10 years of IT and the another decade across Telecom, Broadcast, Film. I am now involved in building platforms for the media and entertainment world - narrow casting content delivery platform such as signage, and other platforms for delivery of video over broadcast, mobile, D-cinema, IPTV models. Working with the print and publishing industries with variable data publishing, Web2print, managed print services etc. The last area is in the connected home with technologies such as DLNA and managed services from a service provider. Personal focus areas are digital asset management, workflows, cross media, narrow casting, device management and monetization of rich media over new media platforms.
CTO of an organization that i was part of the founding team - www.celstream.com and live with my wife, and a son. Love travel, good food, music, nature, cities, art, architecture and let me know if any of you are in town and lets catch up for a drink!

[Kevin Codamon]

Hi,

My name is Kevin Codamon and i am currently the Editor in Chief for New Media of the first and largest online games company in the Philippines and the proponent of the most visited local Philippine website. I also am the owner of one the biggest local blogs and a partner in a startup that enables companies and individuals to make better use of mobile, online and ingame platforms to further their goals. In previous professions, i was a call center operations manager and also worked as an editorial consultant in a local publishing company.

I specialize in usability, online marketing strategies, online brand/image management, and digital content development.

Thank you for accepting me as a member of this. I hope to get to know and learn from each and every one of you. Thanks!

[Sushant Rai]

Hello,

This is Sushant Rai, stationed in Delhi for professional reasons for the last 13 years but a true blue Bangalorean at heart. I join 2 friends and former colleagues in this Group - Rangaraj (a fellow Bangalorean and responsible for me being successful in the Video business) & Nag...

Am presently with vizrt India Pvt. Ltd. (www.vizrt.com) to establish their Media Management Solution (Ardome and videohub) as the de facto solution for content producers, aggregators and those interested in monetising their audio-visual assets through new media in the Indian sub-continent within a mandated period of time.

Prior to this, was Head of Engg & Systems Design for a Network that launched 3 satellite Television channels (9XM - Hindi Music, 9X - Hindi General Entertainment and NewsX - English News) within a 12-month period. NewsX is India's 1st HDTV-ready (1080i) premier television channel. This stint was my 1st and, hopefully last, chance at being a buyer - having been a vendor all my professional life - Systems Integrator; pre-sales; product sales, technical support, etc...

With strong concepts (courtesy Rangaraj), I think I have been successful at what I have done so far in the media domain though after joining this Experts Group I feel that there is a long way to go...

I have been supported by my lovely wife and daughter who have learnt the hard way that the Indian television business is 24x7..

Thank you for inviting me here and hope to share my experiences and learn quite a bit while at it...

[Orlando Welles]

Hi experts,

I am Orlando Welles 38 years old, father of a son of 9 and resident in Amsterdam
where I am also operative at the largest online editor in print and online within the Netherlands,
Telegraaf Media Groep (TMG).
I started my career in the online world 2,5 year ago at a subsidiary company of the telegraph, Speurders.nl.
I’m currently responsible for the sales of the total online portfolio of the TMG, http://www.telegraafmedia.nl/index.php and http://www.telegraafmediaonline.nl
The portfolio currently includes: Display Advertising (with behavioural targeting), E-mail advertising (titles and profile's), Video advertising and Mobile Advertising

[Clint Schroeder]

Hey gang, Clint Schroeder here - VP/Advertising for The Honolulu Advertiser in sunny Honolulu, HI. I handle all sales and operations related to advertising for the Pacific portfolio of products offered by Gannett.