Paul Chaney is Internet Marketing Director for Bizzuka, Inc, a Web content management software company based in Lafayette, LA.

Paul has been an internet media consultant for the past four years and is widely known and respected in that field. He understands at a granular level how Web 2.0 social media tools can be used for marketing communications and has worked with a number of clients assisting them in deploying online marketing strategies.

He writes a monthly feature for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of blogs and social media and has led blog workshops and seminars including the first ever such seminar in Asia, held in Singapore in September 2005. With more than eight years of online marketing experience, Paul has become a leading proponent of using social media as business marketing and communications tools.

Paul has served as Technical Editor on a number of For Dummies series books related to blogs and Internet marketing, and was contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, published by Wiley. Along with Blogging Systems CEO Richard Nacht, he is the co-author of Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition.

Paul has been quoted in leading mainstream media publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Best's Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as several trade magazines. His dedication to and belief in this medium has made him a widely recognized thought-leader and respected industry expert in the field of business blogging.