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Dave Millman is an MIT graduate and former Director of Marketing at IBM. His present role is Vice President of Marketing at CiraNova, a software company located in San Francisco's Bay Area in California, servicing the semiconductor industry.

He's also an expert witness in software intellectual property & distribution agreement cases - and a regular listener of The Connections Show. (Scored big kudos with me straight away!)

In this interview, Dave details a number of examples of successful business outcomes he's achieved as a result of using LinkedIn.

Ron Bates is a Headhunter, Executive Search Consultant & Recruiter based in San Francisco, USA. He's also widely known as LinkedIn's most-connected user - with around 40,000 direct Connections.

However, while Ron's name is well-known to many people, he himself maintains a fairly low personal profile.

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In this interview, we chat with LinkedIn's 'Man of Mystery', as Ron reveals many details about himself, how he first became involved with LinkedIn, the time he spends each week maintaining and interacting with his network - and the business benefit he receives from having such a large number of connections.

For anyone that is curious about what being a LinkedIn 'Power User; is all about - this is is definitely the place to find out.

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 this interview, Dave discusses his views on networking & the importance of building an Online Personal Brand

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.

In this interview, he discussed his career, how Big Deals are done - and the current & future state of the Internet, viewed from the perspective of a Fortune 500 executive.

Interview Marc Freedman is CEO and founder of the DallasBlue Business Network.

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.

Interview with Rob McNealy, based in Denver, Colorado & host of the Startup Story Radio Podcast show.

Interview with Kathie Thomas Author, Blogger, Public Speaker and founder of the Virtual Assistant Industry in Australia.

Kathie was nominated for 2007 Australian of the Year