Media Consultant on how to become an on-air expert - previous producing experience at The Oprah Winfrey Show, King World, CBS. Reality show creator and developer - founder and past President of Kingfish Productions.

Mark Buzan is an association management executive with 16 years experience effectively working with a variety of national nonprofit boards. Mark has directed planning initiatives, strategy & business operation plans, written governance policies, & managed annual budgets to meet organizational goals & optimize organizational effectiveness. He also has a solid reputation for building, managing & promoting member programs to increase bottom-line with improved member services & benefits. Specializing in strategic communications & government relations, he is a relationship builder in public relations, government relations, social media, & stakeholder relations. Organizations hire Mark to: ► Build strategic communications programs & plans that integrate social media with media relations, public relations & other marketing campaigns ►Lobby federal & provincial government to influence complex regulatory & legislative issues ► Recruit new members or donors Mark has counselled numerous non-profit organizations & associations in association/ non-profit strategy in governance, public affairs, marketing communications, advocacy & public relations. Mark has: ► Doubled & tripled attendance at annual lobbying events with Members of Parliament ► Secured meetings with MPs & high level civil servants to address complex legislative reforms ► Facilitated media sponsorships generating significant new revenue sources ► Coordinated internal membership communications strategy and structures for multi-million dollar organization while streamlining diverging stakeholder campaigns ► Saved over 20% in outreach budgets while building successful national brand campaigns ► Coordinated diverging association coalitions bringing consensus of different brands under one umbrella Mark is Public Relations accredited, a Certified Association Executive, & CoAuthor of Online PR & Social Media for Not-for-Profits & Associations

Mobile strategy consultant. In mobile since 1996. Advice in areas such as mobile business models, sources of market research, partnering including via my extensive network, end user reach, roadmaps, monetisation methods, anticipated costs, funding, mobile mechanisms (SMS, web, apps, QR codes, NFC), OS platforms, tablets vs smartphones, HTML vs native apps, device fragmentation, user experience, UI design idioms, testing, reducing piracy, app security and not leaking sensitive data, designing for support, marketing, designing in social, designing in analytics, cloud services, server side and scaling, software good practice, recruitment including assessing candidates as well as finding and recommending trusted developers.