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Podcast Interview with Ron Bates - the world's No1 LinkedIn user

Dave Mendoza is a Contract Recruiter, Sourcer & Trainer located in Denver, Colorado. He's also a very prominent and prolific Blogger, through his site `Six Degrees from Dave', which has recently been recognised with a number of awards and commendations, including `Best Recruiting Blog of 2007' at RecruitingBlogs.com.

In the process, Dave has developed a powerful and distinctive online Personal Brand - and is a new (and fast-rising) entrant into the list of Top 50 most-connected LinkedIn users, posted at TopLinked.com.

In this interview, Dave discusses the elements of what it actually takes to reach this level of connectedness - and the resulting impact this has had on his personal and professional life.

David Moore is Director of Enterprise Engagements at Hewlett Packard in Sydney, Australia - and through the course of his career, has been involved in closing deals totaling in excess of $3 Billion.

Prior to joining HP, David had a long career at Deloitte Consulting, as Industry Leader in Energy, Telecommunications & Government, followed by responsibility for Systems Integration, Outsourcing & Consulting in Asia Pacific, Japan and South Africa.

This background prepared him well for his current role, leading HP's large, complex service engagements for the top Corporate Enterprises and Government Agencies - where the average deal size is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

David is a strong believer in Networking for Business. But due to the high level of Influencers and Decision-makers he needs to meet in order to conduct business at this level - he spends the majority of his time networking the old-fashioned way: Face-to-Face, in the Big End of Town.

However, David's passion for technology and involvement in Mega-Deals, many of which will have impacts that shape society in the future, means he's able to give us a clear and unique insight into some of the Trends, Applications and Developments that lie ahead - in areas such as Virtual Classrooms (with Accelerated Learning, Remedial & Special Needs Education) and Enterprise-to-Person Networking.

Marc Freedman is CEO and founder of the DallasBlue Business Network - and a wild Texas entrepreneur who can't help being a thorn in the side of LinkedIn.com for his diligent evangelism of large networks.

A few years back, Marc was #3 worldwide on LinkedIn, until he was excommunicated for `networking too much' - and forced to rebuild his network again, from scratch.

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Despite this, he continues to be a strong LinkedIn supporter - and provides a comprehensive range of free tools and resources for the LinkedIn community, available under the MyLinkFamily brand.

In this interview, Marc discusses the lessons he's learned from his experiences - and how he's rebuilt his prominence back to #14, out of nearly 20 million LinkedIn users worldwide.

Rob McNealy Rob McNealy is LinkedIn user, based in Denver Colarado and the host of Startup Story Radio " a combination Radio & Podcast show, with the focus on inspiring & motivating people to become successful entrepreneurs. In this Interview, Rob discusses many of the different Web 2.0 and Social Networking sites and applications - and how they can be used for Marketing & Promotion

Doug Hughes is Vice President, Customer Services for Australia & New Zealand at Oracle Corporation.

In this Interview, Doug outline's Oracle's Enterprise 2.0strategy