The authors of The Marketing Technology blog are a collection of marketing professionals who collectively provide expertise in a number of areas, including brand marketing, public relations, pay-per-click marketing, search engine marketing, mobile marketing, online marketing, ecommerce, analytics, usability, and marketing technology.

Here are the authors who have contributed significantly to The Marketing Technology Blog:

Douglas Karr is the founder of The Marketing Technology Blog. Doug is President and CEO of DK New Media, an online marketing company specializing in inbound marketing leveraging social media, blogging, search engine optimization, pay per click and public relations. Their clients include Webtrends, ChaCha and many more. Douglas is also the author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies.

Jenn is a relationship manager with DK New Media. Jenn consults and manages marketing strategies for clients and speaks and writes on marketing and social media.

Lorraine Ball twenty years in corporate America, before she came to her senses. Today, you can find her at Roundpeg, a small marketing firm, based in Carmel, Indiana. Along with an extraordinarily talented team (which includes Bonnie the dog and Clyde the cat) she shares what she knows about marketing, networking, pr, social media and business planning. Committed to contributing to a vibrant entrepreneurial economy in Central Indiana, Lorraine is focused on helping small businesses, become big businesses.

Robby Slaughter has had a lifelong passion for information technology, spanning some twenty years of education, teaching, full-time employment and consulting. Robby is a Principal with Slaughter Development, firm specializing in business process improvement consulting based in Indianapolis, IN.

Michael is President & CEO of SpinWeb. SpinWeb creates professional websites for businesses and nonprofits. Michael conducts regular educational workshops and seminars and is available for speaking engagements on the topics of Internet marketing, technology, social media, business development, extreme productivity, and networking.

Scott Hardigree is CEO at Indiemark, a full-service email marketing agency and consultancy based in Orlando, FL. Scott can be reach at scott@indiemark.com.

Chris is the Marketing Specialist and Product Evangelist for Formspring. He manages many of FormSpring's marketing efforts with a special interest in discovering how social and online marketing can help FormSpring grow. FormSpring is an online form-building tool that takes a lot of the headache out of collecting and managing data online.

Chris is a partner of EverEffect, specializing in Pay Per Click Account Management, SEO Consulting and Web Analytics. Chris has over 16 years of Internet experience with Fortune 500 companies and expertise directing and implementing online experiences to promote business, products and services. Chris' specialties include; Customer Online Self-Service, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), E-commerce, Online Customer Acquisition, Conversion Tactics, Developing Internet Strategies, Online ROI Measurement.

Nila is the principal of TwentyTwo, a business consultancy specializing in brand strategy, identity, and communications. TwentyTwo helps businessess inspire and excite their people, interest and influence prospects, make meaningful connections with their customers, and purse profit with purpose. Learn more about Nila at LinkedIn or my web site.

Tim Piazza is a partner with Social LIfe Marketing and founder of ProSocialTools.com, a small business resource for reaching local customers with social media and mobile marketing. When he's not creating innovative solutions that accelerate business processes, Tim likes to play mandolin and craft furniture.

Stephen Coley is a web programmer. When he's not busting out WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, or custom web apps for DK New Media clients, he's probably hanging out on Twitter, playing video games, scaring the elderly, or redesigning his personal blog (again).

Travis was born and raised in a far off land called Nebraska, and after attending college in Missouri, he completed his MBA and Masters of Social Psychology at Ball State University. Travis has been many things, including a cameraman, tutor, disc jockey, underwriting salesman, barista, a nomadic tourist, librarian, sandwich artist, office manager, researcher, research subject, HR lackey, and project manager, all of which have prepared him for the role of User Experience Analyst. At Tuitive, he is in charge of user research, user testing, user modeling, requirements gathering, and keeping the human in human centered design.