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live Webcast #1 (September 8, 2006)

Hosted by Sloan Foster and Pleas McNeel, the webcast featured:

Charles Vaughn

Charles Vaughn is Senior Vice President of Telecommunication at KLRN -- which means that he oversees that public TV station's programming, on-line services, education, production and engineering activities.

Charles has been in and out of public broadcasting since he was a Radio-Television-Film student at UT Austin in the late 60's. He worked for KLRN, later KLRU in Austin as a producer-director until 1984 when he started his own media production business. In 1988 he came to work at KLRN as Director of Production and has worked at KLRN since that time.

Charles was instrumental in the station's digital broadcasting planning and implementation. Because of the increased capacity and flexibility of digital broadcasting, KLRN-DT currently broadcasts over 30,000 hours of programming each year as well as Datacasting multimedia content to schools throughout the region.

Jonathan Schmidt

Perftech
Executive Vice-President, Business Development

Jonathan has enjoyed a prolific career in the technology industry. He began developing state-of-the-art data and image communications systems as a senior engineer at Frederick Electronics (Plantronics) Corporation in 1966. He later became Vice President of Advanced Product Development at Datapoint Corporation (1969-1985), where his core product development group created the industry's first commercial LAN (ARCNET) and network operating systems and supported a business with 10,000 employees worldwide.

Jonathan became the first Datapoint officer to travel internationally, helping the company develop relationships that later contributed more than half of the firm's global revenue. As co-founder of Performance Technology in 1985, his technical leadership earned a number of industry accolades that included Inc. Magazine's "Entrepreneur of the Year Award." Jonathan defined and played a key role in the design of Performance Technology's products, and established a number of lucrative distribution channels in Europe. After the acquisition of Performance Technology by Bay Networks/Nortel in 1996, Jonathan served as a senior strategist at both Bay Networks and Nortel Networks.

Over the course of his impressive career, Jonathan has lived and worked in various countries around the world, has learned several foreign languages, has long served on the boards of innovative high-tech companies in the US and abroad, and has authored numerous patents for technology products and services. Jonathan holds both a BA and MA in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Jon Lebkowsky

Jon Lebkowsky is an authority on, and evangelist for, computer-mediated communications, social software, virtual communities, community technology, and online social networks. He has served variously as a CEO, technology director, project manager, systems analyst, and online community developer.

His current consulting practice focuses on web usability and strategy and effective use of online social technologies. He is knowledgeable about Internet policy and trends, and is a strong proponent of universal broadband access to computer networks.

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