Voxie Media, a boutique imprint and publishing services company for business authors, is the brainchild of Debbie Weil. Debbie is a Web pioneer and veteran blogger (since 2003), author, speaker and marketing strategist. She was named one of the Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company and a DC Top 100 Tech Titan by Washingtonian.
She is the author of one of the first and most definitive books about business blogging, The Corporate Blogging Book, published in 2006 by Penguin Portfolio. She self-published the updated edition for Amazon Kindle, iPad and smartphones.
She founded Voxie Media, a boutique publishing imprint for business authors, because she is passionate about books, e- or print, and about helping people refine their big ideas and turn them into compelling stories. And because books – and entrepreneurial or self-publishing – are what come after blogging.
Not just any books, but books by entrepreneurial authors with a social mission. Short, rigorously-edited and beautifully-designed books that get quickly into readers’ hands (and onto their e-readers) can spread important ideas, provoke social change and make the world a better place.
And yes, if this sounds a bit like Seth Godin’s The Domino Project, it’s because Debbie has been profoundly influenced by Seth’s approach to reinventing how books are published. Full disclosure: she is also a member of The (All-Volunteer) Domino Project Street Team.
Voxie also provides consulting to navigate the new world of self-publishing.
Prior to founding Voxie Media, Debbie worked with a range of clients from GlaxoSmithKline and HP to the American Camp Association and the Maryland Association of CPAs. Her focus has been content and social media marketing – specifically, how to launch a successful corporate blog.
Debbie is a former journalist with corporate marketing experience. She holds an MBA degree from Georgetown University, a Masters in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin and is a graduate of Harvard with a degree in English.
She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , The Washington Post, Fortune, BusinessWeek, CNN.com, The Guardian and numerous other publications.
