« Carl Ford / Krishna Yarlagadda | Main | Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet, with Carl Ford »
August 08, 2006
Carl Ford / Tina Sharkey
Carl Ford spoke with Tina Sharkey the Senior Vice President of Instant Messaging & Social Media at AOL.
Tina Sharkey is a pioneer in the evolution of new media. Her more than 20 years of experience ranges from the introduction of HDTV in 1986 to the forefront of Web 2.0. Today, Sharkey oversees the Instant Messaging and Social Media groups at AOL, which includes AIM, ICQ, AIMPages, Weblogs Inc. and Netscape.com. Previously she ran Network Programming where she managed daily programming across the AOL network.
Prior to joining AOL, Sharkey served as Group President of Sesame Workshop’s Online Services, creating their award-winning Internet business, and collaborated with Barry Diller on a new home shopping channel, Q2, a division of QVC. Sharkey also helped launch the Adobe Acrobat and New York 1 brands and has managed corporate brand strategies for Time Warner, QVC and Sony. Having coined the phrase “Social Media” in 1995 as co-founder of iVillage, Tina now leads all of AOL’s social networking initiatives.
There's a feed now exclusively for Carl's podcasts. To subscribe to only these, click here for iTunes, or use the following URL: http://podcasts.pulvermedia.com/blog/carlford.xml
Posted by carl at August 8, 2006 12:56 PM