This week, we’re wrapping up the “Get To Know Streamified” series with a spotlight on Mark Shore, our digital media producer. You’ve seen us talk about Let Us Present here before; Mark’s the guy you have to thank for producing that podcast. Name: Mark Shore - personal Twitter Where were you before Streamified?: Pretty fresh off graduating from USC, working with a few LA-based startups and producing a podcast and writing for ClipperBlog and ESPN.com. I had been toying with the idea of taking a job in San Francisco so I called my former college roommate Zane for advice. I had enjoyed watching Zane grow as an entrepreneur while I lived with him a few years back so I was extremely excited when we were able to come up with a position for me at Streamified. What do you do for Streamified?: I produce the podcast Let Us Present, which is aimed to burst people’s content bubbles by introducing them to a variety of content creators from around the web. Apart from that, I’m constantly searching for different ways I can help Streamified grow as a company. Why are you passionate about Streamified?: When I was studying journalism in college, I became entranced by the power of social media and how it was affecting the way in which people consume and share information. Streamified is already a powerful tool and I enjoy watching its transformation into the ultimate social media experience. How do you use Streamified?: I follow my various social streams and use it to post to a variety of platforms at once. I love staying on top of news (especially in the sports world) and Streamified allows me to find great content and see the full scope of how people are reacting to certain events online. — How do you use Streamified? Let us know in a comment or hit us up at our Twitter, Facebook, or Google+!
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This week, we’re wrapping up the “Get To Know Streamified” series with a spotlight on Mark Shore, our digital media producer. You’ve seen us talk about Let Us Present here before; Mark’s the guy you have to thank for producing that podcast.

Name: Mark Shore - personal Twitter

Where were you before Streamified?: Pretty fresh off graduating from USC, working with a few LA-based startups and producing a podcast and writing for ClipperBlog and ESPN.com. I had been toying with the idea of taking a job in San Francisco so I called my former college roommate Zane for advice. I had enjoyed watching Zane grow as an entrepreneur while I lived with him a few years back so I was extremely excited when we were able to come up with a position for me at Streamified.

What do you do for Streamified?: I produce the podcast Let Us Present, which is aimed to burst people’s content bubbles by introducing them to a variety of content creators from around the web. Apart from that, I’m constantly searching for different ways I can help Streamified grow as a company.

Why are you passionate about Streamified?: When I was studying journalism in college, I became entranced by the power of social media and how it was affecting the way in which people consume and share information. Streamified is already a powerful tool and I enjoy watching its transformation into the ultimate social media experience.

How do you use Streamified?: I follow my various social streams and use it to post to a variety of platforms at once. I love staying on top of news (especially in the sports world) and Streamified allows me to find great content and see the full scope of how people are reacting to certain events online.

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How do you use Streamified? Let us know in a comment or hit us up at our Twitter, Facebook, or Google+!

Streamified Presents: Let us Present

There’s a whole bunch of interesting information out there. From blogs to YouTube channels to podcasts, it can be hard to sift through the chaff to find the wheat.

It’s true, we have good discovery tools like StumbleUpon, Reddit, HackerNews and so on. Mobile apps like Zite, Flipboard and Pulse are beginning to present us new information. Still, I am personally bothered by a trend: it is difficult to find something new that is already not big.

Some of my favorite blogs, writers, sites, and artists are not already hugely popular. With most of them, I don’t remember how I first came upon their website. Generally, they were too small for the big content discovery engines.

Thankfully, in cities like San Francisco and LA we are constantly exposed to content creators who deserve more attention. In my opinion, there are not enough people out there trying to spread the word about these sorts of creators.

Let us Present

As we spent time having conversations with bloggers who we’ve featured in Streamified, we began to discover that many of them had fascinating stories. With some of them, we hopped on a quick phone call to learn more about what they were doing and why.

The result is the Let us Present Podcast (iTunes link). Let us Present is a collection of our conversations with innovators who are using online communities to build a brand which we believe deserves more recognition. We’ve been in touch with artists, musicians, bloggers, YouTube anchors, sports writers, novelists, and more. We think (and hope) that you’ll enjoy the stories of these people as much as we enjoyed meeting them.

The podcast is launching this week, and will soon go live in iTunes. We’ll be updating it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (in conjunction with our new digest email).

If you like what we’re doing or think that you know a good guest for the show, shoot us a tweet @LetUsPresent!

This post was written by Zane Claes, founder and programmer for Streamified. He can be reached at Zane@streamified.com.