About Us
What We Do For You
The Expert Knowledge Network supports both live and prerecorded video content. Our clients, business consultants and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), can produce their own live broadcasts or participate in our “Knowledge Networking Events” which are workshops that feature subject matter experts in industry segments providing real world teaching in their field. These workshops bring communities of experts together in venues that allow them to monetize their expertise and establish their own personal brand as an expert in their industry. Our clients can upload their own prerecorded content and even host their own live events broadcasted through their own portal inside The Expert Knowledge Network branded distribution portal. We offer special services for video production, content creation, marketing services and live broadcasting. We also have special venues available for hosting live events that ensure the reliability and quality of your live broadcast.
Our Vision
Our vision is to provide the means for real world experts to communicate this expertise to those “Life Long Learners” who need this information. This is achieved by creating a network of subject matter experts and offering all the services of a digital media publishing house in the twenty-first century including both live and on-demand broadband video. As the pace of technology continues to accelerate, there is a growing need to stay plugged into this rapidly evolving knowledge base. The days when all knowledge was transferred through educational institutions are long gone. As we move into the twenty-first century it is clear that the disconnects between the academic world and the real world of business and technology continues to grow. The Expert Knowledge Network seeks to capture and deliver real world knowledge directly from the experts who create that knowledge to the knowledge workers who need it. We also seek to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the real world and the academic world, increasing the flow of ideas both to and from the academic world and we strive to help improve the processes of certification and accreditation so that knowledge can flow back into the real world in a trusted form.
Our Mission
The Expert Knowledge Network provides subject matter experts with the means to deliver and monetize their content as part of a larger knowledge network of subject matter content under a single branded network that also supports the branding of individuals, firms and organizations with specialized expertise. The Expert Knowledge Network seeks to facilitate the growth and evolution of knowledge in the real world by giving subject matter experts easy access to a delivery system that can deliver their content through a worldwide digital media platform. We offer subject matter experts an effective way to monetize their content, extend their reach and build their reputation. The Expert Knowledge Network offers users a comprehensive real world knowledge base presenting trusted expertise through a portal that provides easy access to the information they need. The Expert Knowledge Network is a premium marketplace of ideas for those invested in the trade of information and we give our experts all the tools of a complete digital media publishing house enabling them to create content in any combination of media necessary to fulfill their needs.
We also have our own premier pool of consultants. The Expert Knowledge Network consultants have been reviewed by us and meet our requirements in terms of their own expertise. We represent The Expert Knowledge Network consultants and help you get connected to the experts you need through a simple needs analysis process that assures you that you will find the right expert for the right project. If you are looking for an expert please contact us for an initial free analysis. If you are an expert in a particular field and wish to join our team of premier consultants please register at the Expert Entrance and send us an email.
Experience
Our management team has a unique combination of experience that gave birth to our vision for creating more powerful ways to capture real world knowledge and help subject matter experts connect and collaborate within their professional communities. Collectively we have extensive experience as subject matter experts ourselves. Moreover, we have experience with both organizing other consultants and creating workshops and other live events. We also have extensive experience with creating content in every format, including video production and rich media. Our experience in broadband communications fueled the underlying vision for The Expert Knowledge Network. Together, we have brought together the expertise required to create and support our vision for helping other experts create and monetize their expertise. Read more about our management team to see how well they complement each other and bring real world experience to bear on the way we fulfill our mission to serve our clients needs.
Our experience includes the total experience of the consultants with which we work, literally hundreds of years of experience and growing. More particularly, we have acquired extensive experience in creating and delivering workshops. We have now joined forces with experts in digital media and interactive broadcasting so we are bringing a team of leading experts together to address the specific needs of our clients. Our combined expertise is unique in the marketplace and we intend to offer our clients the versatility of working with a digital publishing company that provides content creators with all the tools available for creating, delivering and monetizing content in the digital age. Our team now comprises expertise that crosses over from the business community to the academic world giving our clients next generation services in publication and broadcasting.
We have found that both the academic world and the business world have much to offer each other in terms of their own knowledge and expertise. We see the divide that separates these worlds coming down both through structural changes and changes in behavior as experts on both sides migrate between these two worlds. Companies are creating training departments that are becoming more academic in their orientation as they struggle to fulfill the needs for creative growth in their organizations and academe is being forced to act more businesslike as it faces increasing competition in a “flat world” that is connecting everyone through new communication technologies that eliminate time and distance as factors that limit the delivery of knowledge and information. The migration of expertise across the academic/business divide offers a huge positive trade off that creates a classic win-win for everyone where a typical CEO is likely to say to a University President, “You show me how to teach my employees and I will show you how to navigate in the business environment”. The bottom line is simple. Everything is changing. Our services help facilitate these changes from within, making them easy to digest.
Senior Management Team
Bruce May, CEO
Mr. May has fifteen years of experience in interactive and new media, specializing in building strong working relationships with strategic partners creating value for all participants through enhanced products, improved market position, increased scalability, expanded markets and more dynamic channel sales. Pioneering experience in broadband media and an aggressive leadership style resulted in the creation of improvements in product development, user experience, customer satisfaction, sales and accounting processes, strategic planning, and corporate development. This unique combination of experience and skill marks Bruce as a leader in interactive media and broadband television.
Bruce began his career in video production in 1994 with Quanah Productions, in Houston, Texas. Bruce provided a host of services including script writing, production management, marketing strategies, training design, sales and business development. In 1997 Bruce founded New Light Productions, providing consulting and production services for multimedia and video production companies. Services included marketing strategies, sales and business development, creative concept development, script writing, interactive media design, and production management in interactive and video production. Projects included corporate communications, training content, marketing content and marketing strategies in print, video and rich media.
In 2003, Bruce began working with companies in the pioneering field of broadband television and he began building his reputation as a leader in broadband communications, recognizing the future potential for interactive technologies to transform communication applications in fundamental ways that change how people and organizations communicate.
In 2008, Bruce founded Trelios Digital Media Group creating an alliance partnership of companies working in digital media, including solution and application providers as well as high end video production and interactive media companies. These relationships have proven invaluable in building the business model for The Expert Knowledge Network which has packaged these cutting edge technologies for the economical use of thousands of subject matter experts.
Bruce graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston with a BS in Biology which he has never used, preferring to follow his passions which have led him to where he is today. Bruce is a passionate visionary focused on the transformative power of digital media and a charismatic leader in digital media community seeking to make these transformations real and accessible.
Richard Laramy, President
Richard Laramy spent his entire career, some 24 years, in higher education, publishing and some K-12.. In that time he has worked with Fortune 500 companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. In the last eight years he has been instrumental in helping various start-up companies in software development with strategic planning and implementation resulting in successful outcomes. Richard is trained in the Baldrige Model and is a member of the Board of Examiners for Quality Texas ‘07 and ‘08 and is also on the Board of Advisors for University of Texas Austin Center for Performance Excellence. During the last eight years Richard has assisted over 200 schools with strategic planning in the area of assessment and accreditation.
Richard founded TTC Consulting in 2006, an academic consulting network consisting of approximately 50 academic consultants, from higher education institutions located all over the country. Each consultant in the network is an evaluator/examiner for regional and/or specialized accreditation agencies. This effort resulted in the creation of a vast network of academics and subject matter experts all over the United States and some internationally. Richard remains passionate in his drive to affect systemic changes in the education system raising the bar on continuous improvement, helping to create and reinforce a culture of excellence throughout the academic world. Richard is adept at connecting people and resources together to achieve goals that others little imagine.
Richard has personally served well over 200 clients and the TTC network of consultants have served over 1000 clients. The TTC network is now a part of The Expert Knowledge Network. Richard has experience in content, curriculum, technology, assessment and accreditation, process management, performance assessment based on SLO (student learner outcomes), data analysis and e-portfolios. Richard has helped education professionals better understand the digital tool kit that has been widely adopted by the millennium generation. In teaming up with The Expert Knowledge Network, Richard is taking this vision to the next level with best of breed digital media applications.
Richard has a degree in economics from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and is a certified TAPE (Texas Award Performance Excellence) Baldrige examiner.
David Dodd, CEcD, Chief Strategic Officer
David A. Dodd, CEcD is President of DADCO Consulting Services, a leading international consulting firm specializing in creating economic opportunity for communities, states, and countries. After a seven-year career in commercial banking, David joined the Shreveport, Louisiana Chamber of Commerce as Manager of Business Development and Financial Assistance in 1989. In 1994, he joined consultant Ed Morrison to form Morrison/Dodd Group, and in 1999, he founded DADCO Consulting.
He has worked in 47 states in the U.S. and six foreign countries. He has advised the Australian Parliament; the Development Bank of Japan, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris, and was lead consultant for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and International Economic Development Council- sponsored Gulf Coast Reinvestment Forum, that helped shape the Gulf Opportunity Zone Legislation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
David has been recognized as a leader in collaborative-based economic development. He is a member of the board of the Competitiveness Institute, a select group of global leaders in the field. He is also active in development finance, helping to found Alaska Growth Capital BIDCO, Gulf Coast BIDCO, and Red River Valley BIDCO, and serves on the board of the National New Markets Fund based in Los Angeles. He has created economic development strategies and action plans for over 100 communities in the U.S., Mexico, Australia, and Japan over the past fourteen years of professional consulting.
He is a Certified Economic Developer, and has completed Economic Development Institute (EDI) at The University of Oklahoma, the only internationally-accredited economic development educational program. David served as Dean of the institute from 2001 to 2003, and is one of the highest rated faculty members in its history. He is a very popular speaker, delivering dozens of presentations on economic development every year to a wide variety of audiences.
From 2004-2007, he was the chief architect of the Mexico Economic Development Professional Education Initiative, which aims to build capacity for economic development throughout Mexico. David holds degrees from Louisiana Tech University and the Graduate School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University.
David has been active in the field of digital media for the past four years, and worked with Bruce May to lead the NWLA Digital Media Initiative sponsored by the Consortium for Education, Research, and Technology of North Louisiana, designed to create a robust digital media cluster in the region. He has also worked extensively with the film industry in the region and is a founding member of the Northwest Louisiana Film Alliance.