Asia Bird is the founder of SociableSales.com. Her consulting and training programs focus on strategic online sales planning, social media sales performance monitoring, and b2b sales training and development. You can find her on LinkedIn.

Simon Bisson is an IT journalist and technology strategy consultant. He has covered all aspects of IT (from enterprise architectures down) for many publications, from the Financial Times and the Guardian to the Register. Currently, he’s blogging for ZDNet UK with Mary.

Mary Branscombe is a freelance journalist covering technology—anything from mobile phones to mainframes—that makes a difference to people. She has written for a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times and the Observer and numerous technical titles.

Ralph Grabowski is editor at upFront.eZine Publishing, Ltd. Ralph is the author of over 100 books and several hundred magazine articles about computer-aided design.

Ed is an award-winning writer and a widely respected voice on technology topics. His Ed Bott Report at ZDNet attracts hundreds of thousands  of readers every month.

Katherine is the author of many nonfiction books, including Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple, Microsoft Word 2010 Inside Out, and Microsoft Office Word 2007 Inside Out. Visit Katherine’s blog revisionsplus blog for more.

Mike is a prolific blogger and a Microsoft MVP, recognized for his work with Microsoft Windows. He is the author of multiple books, including Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out. Mike posts regularly on Twitter  and Facebook .

Jim is a software development engineer on the Azure and ASP.NET testing team at Microsoft. He loves writing code and is fluent in multiple programming languages and web technologies. Follow Jim on his blog Chronicles of a .NET Test Ninja.