2010 social media conference presented by CNW Group
Speaker Biographies
Keynote Speaker – Protecting Global Brands Online
Keith Bilous is the founder and President of ICUC Moderation Services, the global leader in content and community moderation services. His team of multi-lingual experts manage, monitor and moderate millions of conversations, comments, photographs and videos for some of the largest companies in the world. Keith's reputation and continued commitment to building partnerships, leading innovation, achievement and growth is unequaled and has positioned both Keith and ICUC as the leaders in the social media industry.
Panel 1 – How Social Media Is Changing Local News
Bruce Owen joined the Winnipeg Free Press in 1990 after four years working in other media. He has worked in a number of positions at the paper, including pet columnist, assistant city editor and police reporter. He currently works at the Manitoba legislature. Bruce was one of five reporters who won a National Newspaper Award for the paper’s coverage of the 1997 Flood of the Century. He is also the recipient of the 1996 Volunteer Centre of Winnipeg Media Golden Hand Award and the 1995 Canadian Federation of Humane Societies Media Commendation Award.
Glenn Tinley is President of Studio Media Group (SMG), the parent company of Studio Publications, Studio Online Solutions, itvwinnipeg.com and itvbrandon.com. Studio Publications publishes paper and digital versions of the market’s leading consumer publications, which include Winnipeg Women, Winnipeg Men, Dish, Marketplace and Dream Spaces magazines. A portal for local news, videos and publication links, itvwinnipeg.com was successfully launched in early 2010. Its sister site, itvbrandon.com is Brandon’s online broadcaster, filling a need for local news and programming in the province’s second largest centre.
Curtis Brown is one of Manitoba's most-recognized political writers and commentators, demonstrating how new media have taken a prominent place in the province's social and political landscape. A former newspaper reporter and columnist with the Brandon Sun and later the Winnipeg Free Press, Curtis is also the author of the blog Endless Spin Cycle, which comments on local, provincial and national politics (as well as a whole bunch of other things) from a Manitoba perspective. Curtis, who currently serves as a research associate with Winnipeg's Probe Research, also examines blogging from an academic perspective and has recently completed his M.A. Thesis in Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, which focused on the extent to which partisan blogs affect the media's coverage of the federal government.
Panel 2 – Leveraging Your Social Networks
Corey Quintaine is Marketing Director for Kildonan Place Shopping Centre where he has been a leader in social network marketing among the Ivanhoe Cambridge company. Kildonan Place is the only major shopping centre in Manitoba to actively include social networks as part of its marketing plan. With 15 years of experience in both retail and non-profit sectors, he is a member of the Advertising Association of Winnipeg, the Canadian Marketing Association and the International Council of Shopping Centres. In his spare time, Corey acts as Marketing Director for the BS Comedy Players, a theatre troupe that picks up where the Winnipeg Press Club's "Beer & Skits" left off. Along with being the group's so-called "marketing guru," he also helps write and performs in the political satire, musical comedy show.
Shel Zolkewich wears a number of hats during the day. She’s a partner in Jackfish Media Group, a boutique advertising agency with clients that include the University of Winnipeg and Liquor Marts. As a travel writer, Shel has contributed to Outdoor Canada, explore, The Beaver, Cottage Life, enRoute, Western Living, Flavours, Westjet and Going Places magazines, The National Post and The Globe and Mail. She’s a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada and winner of The Globe and Mail Travel Media Award, part of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada National Awards for Tourism Excellence. She writes a regular shopping column in the Winnipeg Free Press and she’s the author of a one-year old blog focusing on new products. She’s an avid Facebooker and admitted Twitter addict.
Rebecca McCormack and Jason Hasselmann. 
Rebecca is Founder and Owner of Cake Clothing. This Winnipeg fashion designer and retailer has embraced several social media tools to build her business including a YouTube channel, 
Facebook fan page and Twitter. Jason is CEO of New Media Now, a new media production company and consulting firm that specializes in online broadcast quality new media content deployed through social media. New Media Now produces Cake TV in the new media space for Cake Clothing.
Colin Whitney is creative director of Mars Hill Group, an innovative Winnipeg-based new media agency that has pioneered new ways to integrate social media with traditional marketing. He was the brains behind Speak Up Winnipeg, in which the City of Winnipeg used the web and social media to collect, share and process information from citizens to help develop the city’s 25 year plan.
For more information about the award, please contact:
Adam Dooley, past president of CPRS Manitoba,
(204) 291-4092
adooley@dooleycommunications.ca.
