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The panel, entitled 15 Minutes of Fame (or more) With Web 2.0, will focus on ethics, effective content creation and networking techniques in the Cherokee room of the Atlanta Hilton & Towers.

The panel will cater to those working in the arts such as musicians, authors, models and photographers as well as e-commerce entrepreneurs and other Internet professionals.

For Scott McGowan, the panel’s creator and moderator, Dragon*Con serves as an opportunity to pass along knowledge and experience to an eager and relevant audience.

“Dragon*Con is the largest science-fiction and popular arts convention in the U.S. and has attracted 30,000 attendees in each of the last two years,” McGowan said. “Among these 30,000 people are a large number of artists and web professionals who will find this information extremely valuable.”

Also joining the panel will be Matthew Wayne Selznick from the human-curated search engine site Maholo.com along with Scott Sigler, a popular science-fiction author who parlayed episodic podcasting into print publishing.

"The immediacy of the internet gives artists a new way to connect," Sigler said. "If you can put it online, you instantly have a potential distribution of a billion people. The gatekeepers are gone, now it's all up to the audience to decide what is good and what blows."

Dragon*Con runs annually over Labor Day weekend. This year’s event will take place from Aug. 31-Sept. 3 and is housed within the Atlanta Hyatt Regency, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, and the Atlanta Hilton & Towers. For more information on this event, visit DragonCon.org.