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Last night’s anniversary show went flawlessly and was a red carpet event that showcased many of our hosts on BlogTalkRadio. Starting the show was Alan Levy and Bob Charish, founders of BlogTalkRadio and they are also two of the most wonderful people I have had the honor of working with. The 2 hours and 15 minute show was jam packed with call after call, and we barely got time to do anything but take them.

Employee’s, family, and friends are just part of the laundry list of people who joined us.

Host after host rang the line and we here at BlogTalkRadio are so very blessed to be surrounded the overwhelming support and passion that our hosts feel for BlogTalkRadio. We that work here have that passion and saw last night how it has carried over to all of you.

Here is a list of some of the people who called in last night.

We want to thank you all for making this past year the best of our lives, and most importantly to us those who know Alan, we are humbled and honored to be part of helping this vision you had come to life in the most extraudinary way.

Will and Nikki

The Bakers Er Time

Ed Morrissey

April Sims

WSN Radio

Shaun O Mac

In Da No

David Ewen

Michael Bell

Matthew Cerrone-Mets Blog

Betty Jo Tucker

Independently Correct Radio

Dr BlogStein

Az Ufo Show

BigFootLiveRadio

Empress of Glamour

Dangerous Lee

Destiny and Purpose radio

Peter K Fitness

Cuba Exposed

Hour of Celebration

On Da Set

Zookers Radio Show

Celebrity Talk

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Wednesday night starting at 8 pm est Blogtalkradio will bring you our special 2 hour one year anniversary show. It doesnt seem possible that its been a year, seems I have only blinked and we are here today. The line up of guests is extensive for tomorrow night and we are hoping you all will call in and join us as we celebrate Blogtalkradio being live for 1 year.

Our BlogTalkRadio staff including CEO Alan Levy, CO Bob Charish, John Havens, Ed Morrissey, Lisa Padilla, Amy Domestico, John Sweet, Nikki Starr, and Shaun Omac, along with our host liasons, Amber, Christie, and Shannon, will be on hand to ring in “our new year”

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Read/WriteWeb is one of the blogs we regularly follow as Josh is on top of all the latest and greatest on the web.

Last week when perusing the ReadWriteWeb  blog we found Josh Catone’s post on social netcasting .

In response to some of Josh’s comments about social networks lacking simplicity, our CEO Alan Levy offered the opportunity to talk about it. Josh’s post on BlogTalkRadio  highlights some upcoming features which make listening and hosting your own show easier than ever such as our browser call-in capability for users with IE and a microphone headset, live chat with hosts and other listeners, messaging, comments, favorites, ratings and better promotional tools which tap into the million+ per month listener community and world at large. Look for more news on this in the upcoming weeks.

Good Morning, and let me start this blog by thanking Alan Levy, James Boyce, Nate Wilcox, Shaun Daily, and John Sweet for their tireless effort to get some of the events from Yearly Kos live and on the air this year, for one who has never been it’s been an exciting time for us as we are able to be there without even having to step on an airplane. As 2008 gets closer we hope to be at many of these events, allowing all parties to “Join The Conversation”.
Todays schedule is as follows for the last day of the Yearly Kos Convention.

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11:45 pm est Gary Trauner Candidate Us Congress

12:30 pm est Luis Navarro - Joe Biden Campaign Manager

1:00 pm est Comedian Lee Camp from Leecamp.net & LaughlingLiberally.com

4 pm est Massie Ritch Center for Responsive Politics

At 3 PM EST BlogTalkRadio will be at the Presidential Forum. Broadcasting live they will be airing the forum on BlogTalkRadio so please tune in to hear, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and the man from my home state of Connecticut Chris Dodd.

This is history in the making as we watch the first Presidential election unfold, and Social Media steps in to be used as an important piece of the 2008 campaign strategy.

All of us at BlogTalkRadio are very proud to be a part of this.
Amy Domestico

Todays lineup is as follows……………

11am Charlie Brown, CA Congressional Candidate

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11:30 Epluribus Media

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12:30 Bill Foster for Congress Illinois 14

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1:00 Darcey Burner for Congress and Mark Lotwis from Burnt Orange Report, acting Executive Director for 21st Century Democrats

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2:00, Brad Hunstable of Ustream.tv
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2:00 Amanda Marcotte from Pandagon.net

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3:00, Randy Sheer, candidate for Congress in Illinois’ 8th Congressional District.
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4:30 Rick Moran from Right Wing Nut House, Pajamas Media

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5:00 Christina Bellatoni Washington Times

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5:00, Heading Left from YearlyKos with James Boyce and Dave Johnson
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5:00 Markos, founder of DailyKos.com

5:30 Jim Dean - Democracy for America

6:00, MyDD.com bloggers
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Tune in and listen as we get the news straight from the floor at the Yearly Kos Convention.

Today we have surpassed our highest amount of shows with a record 210 shows scheduled to run. I believe our last record was 150, so this is a huge jump in our daily shows.

We attribute it to our wonderful hosts, Bob Charish for tirelessly working to get us up to 20 streams an hour, and our team of host liasons who have been training all the new hosts to start their shows successfully.

So as the Programming Manager I want to thank everyone for helping make BlogTalkRadio be as successful as it has been , and from our CEO Alan Levy who is in flight right now to Chicago to be at the Yearly Kos conference, Alan thanks you all also.

Amy Domestico

This evening at 9 pm EST Blogtalkradio will air the first of it virtual book tours. Brad Thor will join us to talk about his new book “The First Commandment“. Brad is a New York Times best selling author and has served as a member of Home Land Security’s Analytic Red Cell Program. He has been seen on Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS as a national security expert on terrorism.

The Host will be phoning in from the UK while Brad will be here in the US. Thats what makes BlogTalkRadio such a viable platfrom as people can join in the conversation from any corner of the world.

So join in this conversation by clicking here to listen live.

You can also purchase a copy of Brads book by clicking through the Amazon link on the host page.

I would like to welcome a very special guest to Blogtalkradio on Wednesday, July 25^th 4:00pm EST.

Martin Varsavsky the Founder and CEO of Fon.com will be my guest on the Alan Levy Show which can be found here

While it’s hard to believe, I have known Martin for almost 20 years. We met when I was an accountant in NYC at a small accounting firm. Martin, at the time in his twenties, was already an experienced entrepreneur. I handled his business accounts and personal financial matters. In October 1993, when Martin raised money with George Soros for his new upstart telecom company Viatel, he asked me to join he and his team to be his CFO. I had spent 13 years as an accountant and never really gave it much thought to changing careers at that stage of my life.

Well, I decided to leave the safe confines of being an accountant and joined Martin in the crazy world of emerging global telecommunications. I never looked back since. Martin saw something in me that perhaps I or others did not and for that I will always be appreciative.

We will discuss his exciting new venture Fon and whatever else comes up. Martin is a truly fascinating individual so please do tune in. If you would like to call into the live show, please do so by calling 1-347-677-0649.

Alan