Marie Josée Drouin has over 15 years of experience leading technical teams in media operations, customer service, IT, project management, engineering and procurement at companies like Bell, Teleglobe, Intelsat, CBC. She has a master's degree in technological management and has given many presentations on topics related to technology, business and management. Her LinkedIn and Twitter profiles provide more information about her background and expertise.

1. Marie Josée (MJ) Drouin
Broadcast Media Geek
mjdrouin@gmail.com
PodCamp Montréal, 09/09/20

2. Introduction
The first steps
Now what?
Not so positive …
Keys to success
Conclusion

3. Director with 15 years of Media experience, I lead technical teams of up to
30 people and 3 managers to deliver most aspects of the business -
Operations, Customer Services, Information Technologies, Project
Management, Engineering, and Procurement. I developed expertise in
managing cable, wireless, satellite, transmission, engineering and software
development. I worked at Bell, Teleglobe, Intelsat, CBC and as a expert
consultant.
Professional Engineer, Masters in Technological Management
I have extensive experience in speaking since the 90's (ouf!), subjects were
always a mix of technologies, commerce and management.
Past engagements were: Keys to Software Development: What every
executive should know (2009), The Future of Broadcast Archive Systems
(2008), DVB-H: Video over IP goes Wireless (2006), HDTV distribution (2005),
Video over IP (2004) and, Several broadcast technical training (1994-1998):
Video 101, Digital Video and Compression 201, Video testing techniques 301.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjdrouin
http://twitter.com/mjdrouin

6. US advertising reduced by News Corp Newspaper
14% 1st half 09/1st half profits dropped by 14% in
08 ($61B)  $142B in 2008  $466m
2008 US online TV market in
US online ad increase in 2008  $448m
2008 by 10%  $23B
(45% search, $5B banner
ads)
 What’s the next big thing?

7. Configure your ID
http://twitter.com/
Find a good search engine
http://search.twitter.com/
http://tweepsearch.com/
Read on the basic
How to
Search and read tweets
Desktop apps (tweetdeck, seesmic)

8. Follow interesting people
Their followers, who they follow & RT
Searches
Loose yourself
Start reading and re-tweet
Hyper specialized Information
“Read and run the risk of learning”
Your areas of interests/areas that you know
Speed: Best news feed
Blog

9. Maturity of technology
Loss of tweets: Archiving
http://www.twistory.net/
Spam
Speed: Addictive
Don’t try to keep up with all the people
you follow
Automation

10. True: Be yourself
Add Value
Give Credit
Listen
Share
 Build your micro-community !

11. Just do it!