As the Director of Community at Flickr, Heather oversees member activities for one of the world's largest and most popular photo sharing communities. An award-winning designer with over ten years' experience, she joined Flickr in May 2005 and has seen the community grow to 30 million members sharing 2.9 billion photos and video. Previously, Heather was the creator of The Mirror Project and the cofounder of JPG Magazine.
'Been explaining Windows Technologies for over a decade. Started in the early 90's as a administrative assistant who also happened to purchase, network, and maintain all computers for the company (as well as the phone and pager systems for the business). Was farmed out by savvy boss to other business owners when, on the golf course, it became obvious that the only one there with a network that never went down was him.
Andrea served in the United States Army as a Signals Intelligence Analyst and an Arabic Linguist. Following her military service, Andrea became a career consultant for the Federal Government, supporting the CIA, DIA, NSA, NOAA, and the Pentagon. Andrea’s background originally started in web design, graphics and web development and has transitioned from development and design over the years from multimedia design, technical lead, and project manager.
You can contact me by email at angela at wikia dot com
Angela Beesley has been involved with wikis for more than five years. With Jimmy Wales, she founded Wikia.com, a community-focused wiki company which is supporting the development of wikis on more than 6000 topics and in 70 different languages.
Angela chairs the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia.
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Margaret Gold
Gold Mobile Innovation Ltd.
Margaret Gold is an innovation & business launch specialist working with start-ups and corporate ventures in the mobile industry.
Margaret provides hands-on services in the areas of:
• Product definition, development and management
• Value proposition development
• Market analysis and business modelling
• Business development & partnership management
• Sales & new media marketing
• Technical project & programme management
• Requirements management, end-user design, and testing
• Idea Generation workshops
**********Not available until 2009. Due to production of the weekly g33k show, I am not available to speak until next year. ***********
I have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 10 years, in the UK and New Zealand. I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, I write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also Web Mistress for Alt TV, and producer/host of the weekly g33k show online and SKY 65 in New Zealand.
Tiffany Farriss is the co-owner of Chicago-based Web development firm Palantir.net, Inc. and the AIGA Chicago Electronic Media Chair. Working in collaboration with a variety of creative partners, she has managed the development of visually and functionally sophisticated sites for a variety of high-profile corporate, educational, and institutional clients.