Ruby Sinreich

Location: Chapel Hill | NC | US
Speaking Topics: nonprofit tech | social networking | non-profit technology | online advocacy | organizing | social network analysis | swamrs | effective networks
Spoken Languages: English

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Ruby Sinreich is the founder and editor of OrangePolitics.org, a progressive multi-author weblog with a vibrant community discussing local issues around her hometown of Chapel Hill, NC. Professionally, she specializes in strategies that connect people to each other, sometimes known as “network-centric advocacy,” “social media,” “Web 2.0,” or “grassroots organizing,” depending upon what type of geek one is. ;-)

Previous Presentations: 
National Conference for Media Reform, Minneapolis, Minnesota Panelist: “Organizing for Change on the Social Web” June 2008
# Yearly Kos, Chicago, Illinois panelist: “Politics 2.0: How Social Networks and New Media Are Changing Politics” and “Promotion, Publicity, Powncing and Partnerships” July 2007
# South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas Panelist, “Revenge of the Blogs: Election 2008” 2006

Laura Porto Stockwell

Location: seattle | US
Speaking Topics: agency integration | community | Content Strategy | social media | User experience
Spoken Languages: English

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Laura Porto Stockwell is a digital media professional with more than 15 years of experience developing digital brand, content and social media strategies. As Senior Director, Digital Strategy of WONGDOODY, Laura is responsible for developing and implementing digital marketing strategies that embrace innovative approaches to reaching consumers and increasing business effectiveness. Prior to joining WONGDOODY, Laura was the VP, Digital Strategy + User Experience at Publicis in the West, and prior to Publicis, was an Experience Director it the New York and Seattle offices of Razorfish.

Previous Presentations: 
Speaker, Ad Club Seattle, "Beyond Social Media" (November 2008)
Guest Lecturer, University of Washington, IA Institute (2008, 2009)
Speaker, Microsoft MIX, “The Future of Media and the Web” (March 2006)

Umit Yalcinalp

Location: California | US
Speaking Topics: SOA | Web Services | REST | Mashups | standards
Spoken Languages: English | Turkish

Previous Presentations: 
SOA Symposium Enterprise Mashups
O'Reilly and JavaOne conferences on Enterprise Java Beans, J2EE Blueprints

Thursday Bram

Location: Laurel | MD | US
Speaking Topics: blogging | WordPress | Social Marketing | Community Building | Content Development | Lifehacking
Spoken Languages: English

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I've been a blogger for over five years, as well as a social media professional. I've consulted with a number of companies on creating a web presence. I also specialize in finding simple solutions — lifehacks — for complicated problems.

Previous Presentations: 
Altruism of Twitter

Dawn Lacallade

Location: US | Austin | Texas
Speaking Topics: All things community
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
Community 2.0
Benchmarking with 15+ Fortune 100 Companies

Suman Thareja

Location: New York | US
Speaking Topics: agile | distributed teams | offshoring | scrum
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Stephanie Sullivan

Location: AZ | Phoenix | US
Speaking Topics: accessibility | Adobe products | CSS | Dreamweaver | search engine optimization | Spry | Web standards | women in technology

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Founder and principal of web standards redesign company "W3Conversions, Stephanie Sullivan is a CSS, accessibility and Dreamweaver expert, whose services are in demand by top firms across the United States. She's a top gun that companies go to for training their web team, or to work behind-the-scenes transforming their in-house designs into functioning Web standards-based websites.

Previous Presentations: 
www.w3conversions.com/news.html
(The above URL is a link to my past presentations - the front of my site has my upcoming schedule.)
SXSW - What Women Need to Succeed