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Location: USA | New York | NY
Speaking Topics: drupal | grassroots organizing | nonprofit tech | online campaign strategy | politics | social media
Spoken Languages: English

I work at Advomatic, a web development firm based in New York. I specialize in online communications strategy for non-profits, advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

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Location: San Francisco | New York
Speaking Topics: Authenticity is Authority | community | Design for Conversation | digital entertainment | Web Video | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Heather Gold

"brilliant" —boingboing.net

Authentic conversation leads to more connections between people and ideas.

I make authentic conversations happen at companies, organizations and conferences like Google, South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Forum One’s Marketing and Online Communities Conference and Overlap 08.

My uniquely interactive talks often involve bringing out the best in you, other speakers and the “audience.” This means:
•you don’t have sit through another Powerpoint

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• Quick Contact emiramears

Location: Canada | Vancouver | BC
Speaking Topics: nonprofit tech | online campaign strategy | social media | the internet and non profits | women in technology | small business | Women in business
Spoken Languages: English

Many of my presentations are co-presented with Lauren Bacon, so I'm including our joint writeup here. For more details on my professional background, please refer to my professional bio here.

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• Quick Contact laurenbacon

Location: Canada | Vancouver
Speaking Topics: collaborative design | nonprofit tech | social media | the internet and nonprofits | Web Design
Spoken Languages: English

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Many of my presentations are co-presented with Emira Mears, so I'm including our joint writeup here. For more details on my professional background, please refer to my professional bio here.

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• Quick Contact GeekMommy

Location: USA | Colorado | Denver
Speaking Topics: Process Flow based Architecture | Data Architecture | Metadata Repositories | Code Development from User Specs | microblogging | social media | social networking | Training | Translating Corporate-speak into Geek-speak | User Interface
Spoken Languages: English

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An ex-college professor, Lucretia used to teach Computer Information Systems (CIS) to hapless undergraduate students who were planning to use the degree to advance in the computing and IT fields. As such, she is quite comfortable standing up in front of geeks and presenting to audiences of varying skill levels from novice to advanced, hard-core coder to business executive in charge of leading a company into its technological future.

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Location: Atlanta
Speaking Topics: entertainment | social media | twitter | viral marketing | web 2.0 application integration
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact caseymckinnon

Location: USA | Canada | California | United States | Los Angeles | Montreal | Quebec
Speaking Topics: social networking | Internet | social media | new media | internet culture | Internet Marketing | Online video | Video production and post production | Internet Fame | Copyright Issues | Web Video
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Casey McKinnon is an actress, producer and pioneer in the new media field who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has created and appeared on three popular internet TV shows: Galacticast; A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast.

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• Quick Contact lizhenry

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: blogging | blog platforms | bridgeblogging | community | Diversity | free speech | futurism | open source | programming for non-programmers | social media | wikis | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.

I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.

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• Quick Contact Suw

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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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.

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• Quick Contact NicoleSimon

Location: Europe | Germany | Luebeck
Speaking Topics: blogging | corporate media | microblogging | speaker training | startup training | pitching VCs | podcasting | social media | social networking | twitter | Web 2.0 | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: German | English

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I like to share knowledge, which is why I am not limited just to speaking, but also am interested in workshops / expert tables and moderation. Additionally I have become a frequent advisor for organizers of conferences as well as am involved in several barcamps.

One of my favourite topics is how to grow your business internationally, both from the side of for example the US coming to Europe as vice versa, but I am also happy to 'just' transport what is so special about the net and web 2.0.