Suw Charman-Anderson

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: adoption of social tools in enterprise | community | social networking | blogs | copyright | Creative Commons | email reduction | freelancing | open IP | social media | social tools in journalism | Web 2.0 | wikis | work-life balance
Spoken Languages: English

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Web links / Blogs: 
Strange Attractor
Fruitful Seminars
Blogiculum Vitae
Chocolate and Vodka
Kits and Mortar

Suw Charman is a leading social software expert, specialising in the use of blogs and wikis in business. She works with companies around the world, from sectors as diverse as technology, finance and public relations, to help them understand how social software can be used both behind the firewall and for customer communications.

Suw is also the co-founder - alongside Lloyd Davis and Leisa Reichelt - of Fruitful Seminars, a series of intimate Web 2.0 workshops covering topics such as the adoption of social tools in business and the reduction of email through the use of social tools.

Previous Presentations: 
Transitions Online, Work Smarter: Using Social Tools for Information Management and Collaboration
Future of Web Apps: Preparing for Enterprise Adoption
Why HR Needs to Understand Social Media: The Social Media Age - An HR Executive's Illustrated Primer
Presentation Web Links: 
Google Tech Talks: Scary Monsters: Does Social Software Have Fangs?
Going Solo: When Passion Becomes Profession

Stephanie Booth

Location: Lausanne | Switzerland | Europe | will travel
Speaking Topics: blogging | blogs | cluetrain | freelancing | multilingualism | online culture | other | social media | social network portability | social networks | teenagers | teenagers online

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Web links / Blogs: 
Climb to the Stars
Stephanie-Booth.com
Going Solo
Going Far
LinkedIn
List of past talks

Speaking Page | Past Engagements | Video Sample | en français

Previous Presentations: 
Going Solo: Being a Freelancer in a Connected World, LIFT'08, 02.2008, Geneva, Switzerland
Waiting for the Babel Fish: 07.2007, Google Tech Talks, Mountain View, CA, USA
While we Wait for the Babel Fish: 11.2007, Web2Open (Web 2.0 Expo), Berlin, Germany
Many more -- see list of past speaking engagements link below.
Presentation Web Links: 
Going Solo: Being a Freelancer in a Connected World
How Blogging Brings Dialogue to Corporate Communications
Waiting for the Babel Fish
Being a Blogging Consultant
Blogs, Communities, and Relationships: How Adolescents Use Blogs
List of past speaking engagements

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: blogs | blogging | social networking | Internet | women in technology | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | OSX | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | Technology | community | women in tech | Ajax | Widgets | Mac OS X | DHTML | XHTML | gender | OS X | Web | weblogs | online community | Macintosh
Spoken Languages: English

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Web links / Blogs: 
My site
Backup Brain Weblog
JavaScript & Ajax Book Site
Dreamweaver Book Site
Wise-Women's Web Lists
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

How many hats can one woman wear?
I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977--yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more. I've authored or co-authored:
• "Dreamweaver CS6 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide" (Peachpit Press, 2009)
• "JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7e" (Peachpit Press, 2009)
• "Ajax Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2008)

Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.

Robyn Gallagher

Location: Auckland
Speaking Topics: blogging | blogs | online communities | social networking

Web links / Blogs: 
Robyn's Secret Passage

I've been online since 1995, and blogging since 1996 (though the word 'blog' wasn't invented until 1999, so I guess for three years I was just 'writing stuff and uploading it on my website').

I've been an active member of many different online communities over the years, and seen the internet transform from a niche experience for geeks to the everyday medium it is today.

Previous Presentations: 
Public Address Great Blend: Panel discussion on online communities.