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About Jon Leland

jon_aboutComBridges founder, president and creative director, Jon Leland is a leading communication expert who has been an innovator for over 30 years.

In the seventies, Mr. Leland founded one of the first narrowcast radio networks. In the eighties, he was a cable TV pioneer who founded the on-air promotion department at the USA Network. And, in the nineties, Leland wrote and produced original video programs including two interactive TV “future vision” videos for Pacific Bell and an interactive TV prototype application for Oracle Corporation which was displayed at Disney World’s Epcot Center. Jon also produced, wrote and hosted “The Digital Video-Video,” which received sponsorship support from eight companies including Adobe, Avid, Media 100 and Videography magazine.

As a writer, Jon was a contributing editor to Videography magazine for 12 years including his monthly “Video Web” column. He has also been published in Streaming Media, New Media, The Industry Standard, Computer Graphics World, Digital TV, Digital Cinema and Sybase magazines. He was also written corporate articles for FedEx-Kinko’s, Polycom and Compaq Computer, among others.

As a speaker, Leland has also been featured at Inc 500 and Inc Growing the Company as well as MacWorld, Image Expo, Corporate Computing Expo and other conferences. Jon was also the West Coast on-camera correspondent for the American Business Journal TV series.

Speaker

Mr. Leland has also led workshops at the Inc. 500, Inc. Growing the Company, MacWorld, Image Expos, Corporate Computing Expo and other conferences.

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Writer

Examples of Jon’s writing can be found on many of the websites on our custom website design page. Jon’s skills as a website writer are shown in the clean and clear site structure of these sites as well as in much of the content.

Covering leading edge technologies, Jon was a contributing editor to Videography magazine for more than 12 years, and has contributed to Sybase magazine, Computer Graphics World, Publish and TV-Broadcast magazines, among others.

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Mr. Leland’s most recent publication is the ebook, “EBiz Express: What Every Business Should Know About Internet Marketing.”

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