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Contact: Thomas Mulready, owner of Cool Networks LLC (216) 221-6017, TMulready@CoolCleveland.com

Cleveland lights up Vegas

Four Cleveland-based social media experts invited to world's largest blog convention
Bloggers host public event on November 11


Cleveland, Ohio, October 24, 2007 Four Cleveland-based bloggers and social networking gurus have been invited to present featured sessions at the world's largest blog convention, BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas on 11/8-9/07.

Representing Northeast Ohio at BlogWorld in Las Vegas are: Jim Kukral (left) of Ask The Blogger an expert in the field of internet marketing, George Nemeth (center) of Brewed Fresh Daily, the region's top blog compiling hundreds of sites and user comments in the areas of economic development & coffee, Thomas Mulready (right) of Cool Cleveland, an influential weekly e-blast focusing on arts, tech, videos, and economic development, and Eric Olsen (not pictured) of Blog Critics, an online magazine featuring the work of thousands of writers, reaching millions of readers monthly with critical commentary on music, art, sci/tech, books, sports, gaming and pop culture.

Cleveland blog event To celebrate Northeast Ohio's online leadership, Cleveland State University's Nance College of Business is hosting a Meet The Bloggers forum in their auditorium, 1860 E. 18th St., Rm. 118, starting at 5:30PM on Thu 11/1. The public is invited, along with the area blog community and the media, to preview the Clevelanders' Vegas presentations, and to engage in a community dialogue about our region's leadership in the world of the Internet, blogging and social networking. Map here. Registration for this free event here: http://www.coolcleveland.net/forums/110107/index.php

Videos are available Watch a video interview with Jim Kukral featured in the current issue of Cool Cleveland here. Additional videos produced by Thomas Mulready appear in the Cool Cleveland archives here.

About BlogWorld Expo The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld & New Media Expo will feature the largest blogging conference in the world including seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. The conference is designed for those blogging, vlogging, podcasting, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or just want to know what the blogosphere is all about. The inaugural event will take place November 8th and 9th at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with an exclusive "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference beginning November 7th. (http://www.BlogWorldExpo.com)

About Jim Kukral & AskTheBlogger.com
AskTheBlogger.com The online resource AskTheBlogger.com (http://www.AskTheBlogger.net) features online tips and strategies for those building and developing their blogs. Recent questions (and answers by Jim, often with video clips) include: How do I make money with Pay Per Click? How can I get free content for my blog? How do I get more comments on my blog? How do I write a blog with multiple topics? JimKukral.com is an online marketing blog focused on providing insights, tips and educational information to businesses and brands in need of online marketing consulting. Jim's consulting work focuses on case studies about bloggers that have gone from unknowns to success stories, and how they did it. His work also features Jim's top tips for how anyone can become a successful blogger.

Jim Kukral is an online marketing veteran and long-time blogger, having participated in over 50 blogs. As an online entrepreneur, Jim creates and promotes creative and fun online businesses either for himself or his customers. His latest project, Scratchback.com, helps website publishers and bloggers have fun making money online with their readers.

About Thomas Mulready and Cool Cleveland
Cool Cleveland As the flagship of the Cool Networks family of online media, the weekly Cool Cleveland email newsletter (http://www.CoolCleveland.com) was created in 2002 by Thomas Mulready to provide grass-roots news, event listings, information, reviews, previews, local arts coverage, weekly podcasts, and weekly vodcasts with key regional figures in arts, business, and technology. The free weekly e-blast offers Hot Picks of cool events each week, a summary of interesting blog postings, culture and business reviews written by citizen journalists, weekly book and CD reviews by area artists, letters from readers, and a listing of the Top 5 most clicked links. The weekly Cool Cleveland podcasts are broadcast on radio twice a week since 2003. Well-attended Cool Cleveland after-work networking parties for young professionals take place monthly in exciting venues around the region since 2002.

Thomas Mulready As creator of Cool Networks LLC, Thomas Mulready leads a multi-media network utilizing blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and e-blasts to promote economic development, arts, culture and technology in Northeast Ohio. After creating the Performance Art Festival+Archives, he co-founded the Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, and has served as SVP of National City Bank and worked at Richardson-Vicks, and Campbell Soup. He's played drums with Cats On Holiday, presented his performance art in New York and Paris, and served as a Senior Research Consultant in the United Kingdom.

About George Nemeth and Brewed Fresh Daily
Brewed Fresh Daily One of the most influential blogs in the region, the Brewed Fresh Daily weblog (http://www.BrewedFreshDaily.com) was founded in 2002 by George Nemeth to address his two passions: coffee and economic development. With over 400 RSS feeds and links to hundreds of key Northeast Ohio blogs, Brewed Fresh Daily has become established as the most read and most influential blog in the region on economic development.

George Nemeth After technology stints at Swagelok and NCS DataComm, George Nemeth became Cool Cleveland's Chief Information Officer in 2003. Along the way, he created Brewed Fresh Daily, Blogapalooza, and Meet The Bloggers, a collaboration of top economic development blogs dedicated to interviewing politicians and regional leaders, and publishing the interviews as podcasts available to the public. He's taught at several area universities, and speaks regularly on the topics of blogging, social networking, and the appreciation of fine brewed coffee.

About Eric Olsen and Blog Critics
BlogCritics.org (http://www.BlogCritics.org) is an award-winning, interactive online magazine covering TV, film, video, music, books, celebrity, popular culture, tech, games, politics, sports, and much, much more. With over 2000 passionate writers and 20 editors from around the globe generating dozens of razor sharp review, news, opinion, and interview articles per day, and an energized monthly readership of well over 2 million, Blogcritics.org is magazine, media organization, and social network. Blogcritics.org also reaches hundreds of thousands more readers per day via syndication through the Advance family of newspaper sites, Boston.com, Lexis/Nexis, Topix, Buy.com, Breitbart.com, Google News, Yahoo News, and a number of other outlets.

Eric Olsen is the founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of broad-based online critical magazine Blogcritics and author of local Cleveland blog Cleve-blog. He is a widely read and influential blogger. Olsen was named a Trendsetter on the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100—a "power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution," in 2005. Over the last 20 years Olsen has written for print and online publication on a wide variety of topics from popular media to politics and his work has appeared in Playboy, Billboard, Alternative Press, Option, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Hear/Say, MSNBC.com, and other outlets. His book publications include Networking In the Music Industry (with Jim Clevo, Rockpress, 1993) [4], and The Encyclopedia of Record Producers [5] (with Paul Verna, Carlo Wolff, Billboard Books, 1999), a definitive work in the field featuring original interviews, bios, and discographies of over 500 of the leading producers in recording history.

Registration for the free Meet The Bloggers community forum on 11/1 is available at http://www.coolcleveland.net/forums/110107/index.php

Images, videos and additional information are available at http://www.CoolCleveland.com.

Interviews with the four featured speakers are available to the media upon request by contacting Thomas Mulready at TMulready@CoolCleveland.com

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