Marco "Monty" Montemagno is for the last 12 years:
An italian web entrepreneur (Co-founder of Blogosfere)
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/02/18/goadv-buys-italian-blog-network-blogosfere
A "technology" speaker:
http://blip.tv/file/497941
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/11/post.html
Tech chairman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU5Ujb8fQ6o
TV host (on Sky News > many, many guests including: Al Gore, David Weinberger, Nicholas Negroponte, Steve Ballmer, Tom Anderson, Cory Doctorow...)
http://bit.ly/5SQdYn
Presentations and communication "guru" (!)
http://www.conferencebasics.com/2010/01/the-montemagno-recipe-for-improving-le-w
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2009/sb20090127_219784.htm
A passionate researcher
http://www.talkologist.com
...and since 2008 he's been running an “internet evangelizing show” throughout Italy called "Codice Internet"
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/10/05/breaking-the-internet-code-in-italy
Here is the full video (1h40min):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGNcChIRC7o
Short Bio
Marco is cofounder of Augmendy (a company focused on social media enterprise) and he's cofounder of Codice Internet, http://www.codiceinternet.it, a no profit association fighting "cultural" digital divide in Italy.
He has been the cofounder and CEO of Blogosfere, one of the main European weblog networks (sold to IlSole 24 Ore and GoAdv in 2010) .
He host for several years on SKY Tg24 News television channel, his own TV show "Ioreporter", which deals with Internet, Web 2.0, social media and news:
http://www.skylife.it/html/skylife/tg24/articolo/060915_reportdiffuso.html
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=sky+tg24+reporter+diffuso
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter_diffuso
Marco is a renowned speaker as well (watch his talk at IAB 2007, in front of 3.000 people: http://blip.tv/file/497941english subtitles)
He is a blogger, a leading expert on Internet specifically on those topics related to web 2.0, blogging, media development and consultant on these issues for a variety of Italian top companies.
Marco has been assistant professor for several years, at the Cattolica University in Milan http://www.unicatt.it/ucsc_EV.asp teaching theories and techniques of online communication at the faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
In addition to his own television show he appears regularly in the media and is a highly respected figure in Italy in the world of IT and the internet.
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Celebrity Speakers Profile
http://www.celebrityspeakers.it/Dettaglio.aspx?id=59
Some Speeches (video, eng. subtitles)
"The Internet Show"
“The Internet”, IAB 2007
http://blip.tv/file/497941
“Internet for Companies (ABC)”
http://blip.tv/file/806600
“Blog evolution”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJ_HPh7P0Q&feature=related
Marco’s weblogs
http://skytg24.blogs.com/
http://www.marcomontemagno.com
English blogs (thanks!)
Presentation Zen
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/11/post.html
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2009/01/bert-decker-communication
David Weinberger
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/12/02/marco-montemagno-on-internet-myths/
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/10/05/breaking-the-internet-code-in-italy/
Web Worker Daily
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/
Naked Conversations
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2006/10/marco_montemagn.html
