Nathalie Lussier

Location: Toronto | ON | Canada
Speaking Topics: Online business | blogging | social media | WordPress | programming | women in technology | Internet Marketing | Social Marketing
Spoken Languages: French | English

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I'm a Software Engineer turned business owner, and I've built my online presence using all my technology skills. I've also got a lot of passion for health and wellness, and women in technology. I've come to online business, social media, and internet marketing in a roundabout way but everything fits in a nice package now.

Previous Presentations: 
PodCamp Toronto 2010 - How to Build a Budding Online Business Using Raw Passion and Social Media
BlogWorld Expo 2010 - How to Create Mouth Watering Content

Marla Schulman

Location: CA. United States of America | Los Angeles
Speaking Topics: blogging | microblogging | Teaching Social Media | communities
Spoken Languages: English

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Teaching "Old" Media Dogs "New" Media Tricks, Life After Layoff - Re-Inventing Yourself Using Technology and Community Building, Why We Love & Need Facebook and Twitter (aka What's it all about Social Media?)

Rain Ashford

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: arduino | blogging | computational art | Gaming | Hardware Hacking | media literacy | open source | wearable tech | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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My current role is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where I'm presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During my 10 years at the BBC I've developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities.

I'm passionate about technology. I run a Women in Technology network for my colleagues with speakers, events and discussion on careers, training, raising your profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. I previously co-ran the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, I'm a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.

Previous Presentations: 
Yahoo! Hackday, Over the Air, OSSAT (Open Source Show and Tell) Musion MAMAs, BBC Women In Tech, OSHUG (Open Source Hardware Users Group), Arduino DevCamp, + various unconferences

Corvida Raven

Location: Atlanta | GA
Speaking Topics: social media marketing | social networking services | Technology | mobile | blogging
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
South By South West (SxSW) 2009
BlogHer 2009
Blogalicious 2009

Lea Alcantara

Location: Alberta | Canada | Edmonton
Speaking Topics: blogging | branding | Design | expressionengine | self-branding
Spoken Languages: English

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Lea Alcantara is often hired to kill bad design, with her weapon of choice, ExpressionEngine. She has been an active part of the web, designing and developing for 10 years, and through her efforts, has been considered one of the best women designers in the world and an amazing female role model for web designers. She has been published on several online publications including Design-in-Flight, Digital Web, and A List Apart. Most recently, she participated in a .net magazine "Build Off" published in Issue 199.

Previous Presentations: 
Art of Self-Branding at SXSW, FOWD, The DIY Summit, Toronto Real Asian International Film Festival
EdmontonEE at Edmonton's First ExpressionEngine Meetup
Blogger/Journalist: The New Normal at Canadian Association of Journalist Conference

Samantha Warren

Location: Washington DC
Speaking Topics: Web Typography | Typography | Web Design | User Experience Design | Making the Transition from Print to Web Design | Online Branding | blogging | usability | Online Art Direction | Web standards
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
<strong>Web Typography: Get Stoked </strong> 08/09 –Refresh Richmond, Richmond Virginia 04/09 –Web Design Day Pittsburgh, PA
<strong>Web Typography: Get Your Glyph On </strong> 03/09 –SXSW Interactive Festival Austin, Texas
<strong>Typography is the Foundation of Good Web Design</strong> 10/08– Refresh Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 09/08 – Refresh Baltimore, Baltimore MD

Jana Herwig

Location: Austria | Vienna
Speaking Topics: anthropology | blogging | Collaboration | knowledge management | new media | online collaboration | Personal Branding | pr 2.0 | Privacy | social media | twitter | virtual collaboration | Web 2.0 | web 3.0 | wikis | Social Media & Society
Spoken Languages: German | English | Dutch | some French | some Afrikaans

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Current position: PhD Candidate in Media Studies (Theatre, Film and Media Studies) at Vienna University.

Experience: work experience both in web 1.0 (project manager new media and CRM; before 2003: screen designer, web developer, online editor, community manager) and web 2.0 (blogger - corporate and on own account, self-appointed social media evangelist).

See also: my professional CV on XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Jana_Herwig

Number of talks about Social Media in 2009: eight (both at conferences and as part of in-house training or continued education events).

Previous Presentations: 
netcultures, Wissenschaftliche Tagung (Basel, 15.-16.10.2009)
eVideo Online-Konferenz (Berlin/Online, 12.-16.10.2009)
Internet: Critical (Milwaukee, 7.-10.10.2009)
Web as Culture (Gießen, 16.-18.07.2009)
Amateure im Web 2.0 (Wien, 24./25.4.2009)
Various Contributions to BarCamps and events such as the Viennese Digitalks.at

Jamie Pappas

Location: USA | Boston | Massachusetts
Speaking Topics: blogging | social media | corporate blogging | community | twitter | enterprise 2.0 | Facebook | Flickr | social media strategy | LinkedIn | blogger relations | Social Media Best Practices | Social Media in the Enterprise | Enterprise 2.0 Strategy | Enterprise 2.0 Best Practices | Community Manager | YouTube
Spoken Languages: English

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Jamie Pappas is a successful Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategist, evangelist, and community manager at EMC Corporation, offering an excellent track record of proven leadership and subject matter expertise. Jamie has a hand in developing and driving overall Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategy across the entire organization, identifying opportunities to integrate social media and community into the daily lives of employees, both internally as a team collaboration tool, and externally as a way to engage with customers, partners and prospects.

Jen Nedeau

Location: New York | NY USA
Speaking Topics: blogging | feminism | millennials | online media | progressive politics | social media | twitter
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in New York City, where she works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media.

Nedeau became specialized in digital efforts while working for New Media Strategies in Arlington, VA where she employed corporate and non-profit online campaigns utilizing the power of social media to promote and protect her clients.

Previous Presentations: 
Netroots Nation 2009 Panel: Building a Conversation Across Generations of Progressive Women
Netroot Nation 2009 Training: Twitter - Separating the Hype from the Reality
Fem 2.0 2009 Panelist: At the Crossroads: Organizing the Next Generation of Feminists Online and Off
2009 Politics Online Conference: Will Old Media Paradigms Shift Into A New Media World?
Interact 2008 Presentation: Technology As A Means to Move Information Online

Susanne Holzer

Location: Austria | Vienna
Speaking Topics: blogging | corporate blogging | online pr | social media | social media marketing
Spoken Languages: German | English

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Sueholzer is an Austrian Social Media and Online PR Speaker who has consulted serveral brands on those topics, for example Swarovski or Silhouette.

Previous Presentations: 
meshed#1 - social media & online marketing conference
Digitalks