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All of us at New Media Creative are happy—and quite excited—to announce that the company’s founder, writer, producer, voice-over guy and blogger “NEW MEDIA JOE” KLEIN has been asked by the organizers of the BLOGWORLD AND NEW MEDIA EXPO in Las Vegas to take on the duties as the “Voice of Blogworld” and act as the live announcer for several of the conference’s more notable events.

Joe was recently contacted by the event’s co-founder and CEO, RICK CALVERT, to sign on and be the “voice guy” to introduce speakers at the keynote addresses and other functions at the Expo. Joe and Rick first met at the inaugural Blogworld in 2007 and have been friends ever since.

Joe is certainly no stranger to handling announcer duties. In November of 2006, he was the voice of THE VLOGGIES, the first-ever video blogging awards presented by Silicon Valley upstart, the PODTECH Network. Besides from acting as the show’s announcer, Joe wrote and co-produced the live ceremony with host and new media personality IRINA SLUTSKY of GEEK ENTERTAINMENT TV. The show, which took place at the legendary Swedish American Hall in San Francisco (which has been home to several new media related events), was a huge and unexpected success that created a buzz that lasted for months and, in many ways, put the PODTECH NETWORK on the map.

In his decades-long career as a commercial and music producer, writer and voice-over artist, Joe has voiced hundreds of local and national radio and television commercials, promos and major network television specials for NBC. He’s also performed as a voice-actor, providing looping and off-screen voices for major motion pictures and network television shows, including TURNER AND HOOCH and MURPHY BROWN among others. Joe joined the American Federation of Television and Radio Performers Union (AFTRA) in the seventies and became a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in the early eighties. He is also a writer and publisher member to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) since he wrote the music and lyrics to the hit novelty holiday classic CHRISTMAS IN MALIBU in 1988.

Joe took a hiatus from “the business” in the mid-nineties to pursue other interests, but re-emerged as a producer and voice-over artist in 2005, this time choosing to pursue a “new career” in “new media.” That same year, he founded The Podcast Voice Guys, a new media services company offering professional quality voice-overs to podcasters, new media producers and emerging networks. In 2008, the company expanded its service offerings, added new associates and was renamed NEW MEDIA CREATIVE. Under the banners of both companies, Joe has voiced, written and produced hundreds of promos, commercials and media elements for podcasts, videos, new media networks and other enterprises in the last four years. He’s attended and been a session presenter at dozens of new media related conferences in the last few years as well. In the summer of 2008, joined a host of other leading voice-over artists and “celebrities” at VOICE 2008, a prestigious exclusive conference in Los Angeles, where he presented a unique and informative session titled “Old Skool Meets Meets New Media.”

Joe has also kept busy applying his writing skills to social media endeavors, by posting numerous articles here on the company’s blog and tweeting on the company’s Twitter page.

Joe has become a recognized personality in the new media world over the last few years, well-known for bringing his wit and “Old Skool “ style to new media and social media projects and ventures.

Be sure to say a big “whassup” and hello to Joe if you’re attending the conference in Las Vegas. Joe loves to meet and greet!

The Blogworld and New Media Expo promises to be quite all the rave this year. With the acquisition of The New Media Expo last December, Blogworld became two, two, two shows in one! At least 4,000 are expected to attend the event at the Las Vegas Convention center and Twitter is already abuzz with tweets about the show and related events.

The Blogworld and New Media Expo is October 15-17. If you haven’t registered to attend yet, there’s still time! Click on the badge on the sidebar to the left!

Several months ago, Joe created the new moniker “New Media Joe” and a new Twitter account to match. Coinciding with his appearance at the Blogworld Expo, he’ll be starting to tweet to his observations, comments and opinions in the worlds of new media and social networking. He’ll also be posting blogs and tweeting from our existing company blogs and Twitter pages.

Look out Blogworld, here comes NEW MEDIA JOE!