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• Quick Contact Maria Young

Location: United States | Raleigh | North Carolina
Speaking Topics: blogging | Building Blogs | community | online communities | online culture | Parenting and Technology | social networking | women
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact veronicabelmont

Location: San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: blogging | gadgets | Gaming | Internet | internet culture | microblogging | new media | online communities | social networking | tech and internet skills | Technology | Technology-General | Web 2.0 | Web Video | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PLAYSTATION Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight.

Veronica frequently guest hosts other technology-related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking. In her spare time, she hosts the science fiction and fantasy-themed podcast / book club The Sword and Laser.

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• Quick Contact neha23

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | CA
Speaking Topics: Bollywood | internet culture | Minority womens issues | new media | online communities | social networking | South Asian media | Web 2.0 | women in technology | Women representations in media
Spoken Languages: | English | Hindi |

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Neha Tiwari discovered her passion for tech journalism in her junior year of college as an intern at TechTv. After graduating from UC Berkeley (and living in India for a quarter of the year), she gained a dream job working for News.com at CNET San Francisco. While there, she sharpened her producing skills and made videos centered around tech products,websites and culture. After CNET, Neha moved on to Revision 3.com,where she produced a number of geek-centric segments, shows, and also appeared on camera as the network "Nerd Bird."

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• Quick Contact CatRambo

Location: United States | WA | Redmond
Speaking Topics: blogging | fantasy and science fiction | game development | gender identity | online communities | online magazines | podcasting | speculative fiction | technical writing | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English

Cat Rambo is a technogeek whose experience includes co-editing Fantasy Magazine, working with the online game Armageddon MUD, freelance technology writing, teaching writing for ranges 5th grade through post-grad, and writing f&sf. She is a dynamic, quick-spirited speaker and educator with charisma, empathy and a keen sense of humor.

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• Quick Contact Angela

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | communities | online communities | social media | Web 2.0 | wiki | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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       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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• Quick Contact josiefraser

Location: UK
Speaking Topics: cyberbullying | e-safety | social networking services | educational technology | online identity | online communities
Spoken Languages: English

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I am passionate about the potential of technologies to facilitate social participation, community development, and formal and informal learning. My work consistently models and promotes the innovative and effective use of web based tools and practices to creatively and inclusively foster community development and online engagement – from site design through to advocacy and management. I have established a reputation as someone who finds imaginative solutions and can galvanise national and international networks.

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• Quick Contact nina

Location: Australia
Speaking Topics: Building a business with Open Source | Content Management Systems | DotNetNuke | Email Marketing | Extranets %26 Intranets using open source | Microsoft Open Source | online communities | Skinning %26 Theming | Web 2.0 | webdesign
Spoken Languages: English

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Nina Meiers - XD Design and Microsoft MVP has been in the field of Web Developing, Design & Hosting for over 10 years now.

Since 2002 has focussed on building a business using the DotNetNuke open source web application framework and has clients from many countries and has advised and consulted with Fortune 500 companies right through to single business operators who want to utilise Microsoft's premier Open Source Project - DotNetNuke.

• Quick Contact stormy

Location: USA | Colorado
Speaking Topics: open source | women in open source | online communities | open source policies | open source business

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• Quick Contact hypatia

Location: Canada | Toronto | Ontario
Speaking Topics: gender | gender issues in IT education and work | internet culture | online communities | open source | security | voip

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• Quick Contact Robyn

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

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.