John Pond RESUME & BLOG

CURRENT: Cruise Passenger Magazine News Editor. Cruise Passenger enews Editor. Cruising & Travel Web Magazine Editor. Travel- Social - Restaurant, Hotel Reviewer - Writer - Photojournalist, Previous contributer Telegraph Confidential. lecturer-trainer. Freelance contributer Wentworth Courier Travel Section. Publisher Various Travel Web Sites.

Australian Reviewer for PASSPORT NEWSLETTER, America’s No.#1, 5 star information Travel Newsletter with over 30,000 hits per month. Catering for 5 star travellers worldwide.(click on line below to visit this site).

Luxury Travel Guide - Passport Newsletter - Subscription Services (click on their HOME PAGE)

Consultant & Training Provider to The Hospitality, Travel and Television industry. Senior Trainer/Supervisor Wesley Mission (Work For The Dole) Hospitality, Marketing.

Lecturer on International Cruise Ships and locally.

Lecturer: Corporate. Lecturer Columbia University.

Accredited Trainer. Certificate IV.

Pioneer in the Australian Television Industry, Producer at 7, 9 & 10 Networks and US Networks.

Producer of thousands of hours of network programming.

SHOWS INCLUDED: Tommy Leonetti Tonight Show, Gordon Chater Show, Graham Kennedy Specials, People in Conflict, Marriage Confidential, Dr. John Casebook, Star Search, Dialling For Dollars, Athol Guy’s The Big 9, Tip Top Time and more.

Co-creator “The Joker’s Wild” American TV Network Show . First TV show ever to give away 1 Million Dollars to a winner. 20th Century Fox Feature Film “The Priceless Gift”. PRODUCER PLAYBOY CONCERTS - HOLLYWOOD BOWL.

Advertising, TV Producer, Obrien Advertising, TV Manager Hertz Wallpole Advertising, TV Group Head J. Walter Thompson Advertising, TV Manager Mc. Cann Erickson Advertising.

Management, Harrah’s Resorts and Casinos, Nevada USA.

Vice President Marketing & Public Relations, Playboy World Wide, based in Chicago, USA.

Producer 20th Century Fox, Los Angeles, USA.

WRITING CREDITS INCLUDE:

Washington Post, LA Times, American Playboy, Australian Playboy, Signature Magazine, Woman’s Weekly, Daily Telegraph, Wentworth Courier, District Newspapers, Web Sites.

PERSONALITIES: Worked With, Produced or handled PR for:

Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, John Wayne, Diana Ross, Mel Torme, Bill Cosby, Pat Boone, Dick Van Dyke, Margaret Truman, Buster Crabb,, Jan Michael Vincent, Pesident Gerald Ford , President, Ronald Regan, Steve Lawrence, Edie Gorme, Lannie Kazan, Lee Majors, David Cassidy, Farrah Fawcett, Dick Clarke, Hugh Heffner, Buddy Greco Alex Haley (Roots), Edith Head & more.

ASSOCIATIONS: President, Producers & Directors Group of Aust. Past Senior VP Producers & Directors Guild. Justice of the Peace Assoc. American Society of Travel Writers, American P.R. Society. Certificate IV Training. Write Click Travel Writers Association. Photographers Association of America.

PHOTOS:Alex Haley, Dick Van Dyke, Edith Head and President Gerald Ford.

Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Bob Hope, Diana Ross. Worked with above .

Photos Above:

Dick Clarke, Bunny, John Pond.

Mel Torme, Bill Cosby.

Hugh Heffner.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

John Pond being awarded a Manly Community Service Award by center manager Jacqueline Smith at a ceremony in front of the Mayor of Manly. The award was for outstanding Community Service at Manly. John works from the center in his 2 day a week role for Wesley Mission where he trains long term unemployed for positions in the hospitality and marketing industry.

FRANK SINATRA DOCUMENTARY

John Pond recently featured in a one hour documentary made by Endemol Southern Star Pty Ltd about the 1974 Frank Sinatra Tour. John played a crucial role in Sinatra’s dealing with Bob Hawk and the unions (see story below). The documentary was made to appear on British and European television and may be sold worldwide. John is featured throughout as he tells the story. Sinatra took John back to the USA in his private jet as a thank you for his part in the events.

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DGA (Directors Guild of America) President Jack Shea

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Advertising spending in Australia is moving away from television and newspapers and onto the Internet. In November 2005, Merrill Lynch forecast that the Internet will be Australia's fastest-growing growing channel, with a 35% increase in advertising revenues that year. As of the end of 2005, the Audit Bureau of Verification Services (ABVS) reported that spending on online advertising in Aust. reached $620 million. & for the first quarter of 2006, the Australian online advertising market grew by 65% over the same quarter in 2005 to reach a total of over $195 million.

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