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Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: blogging | Gaming | Hardware Hacking | media literacy | open source
Spoken Languages: English

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My current role is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where I'm presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During my 10 years at the BBC I've developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities.

I'm passionate about technology. I recently started a Women in Technology network for my colleagues to discuss careers, training, raising their profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. I previously co-ran the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, I'm a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.

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Location: Atlanta | GA
Speaking Topics: social media marketing | social networking services | Technology | mobile | blogging
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: Alberta | Canada | Edmonton
Speaking Topics: blogging | branding | Design | expressionengine | self-branding
Spoken Languages: English

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Lea Alcantara is often hired to kill bad design, with her weapon of choice, ExpressionEngine. She has been an active part of the web, designing and developing for 10 years, and through her efforts, has been considered one of the best women designers in the world and an amazing female role model for web designers. She has been published on several online publications including Design-in-Flight, Digital Web, and A List Apart. Most recently, she participated in a .net magazine "Build Off" published in Issue 199.

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Location: Washington DC
Speaking Topics: Web Typography | Typography | Web Design | User Experience Design | Making the Transition from Print to Web Design | Online Branding | blogging | usability | Online Art Direction | Web standards
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact digiom

Location: Austria | Vienna
Speaking Topics: anthropology | blogging | Collaboration | knowledge management | new media | online collaboration | Personal Branding | pr 2.0 | Privacy | social media | twitter | virtual collaboration | Web 2.0 | web 3.0 | wikis | Social Media & Society
Spoken Languages: German | English | Dutch | some French | some Afrikaans

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Current position: PhD Candidate in Media Studies (Theatre, Film and Media Studies) at Vienna University.

Experience: work experience both in web 1.0 (project manager new media and CRM; before 2003: screen designer, web developer, online editor, community manager) and web 2.0 (blogger - corporate and on own account, self-appointed social media evangelist).

See also: my professional CV on XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Jana_Herwig

Number of talks about Social Media in 2009: eight (both at conferences and as part of in-house training or continued education events).

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• Quick Contact JamiePappas

Location: USA | Boston | Massachusetts
Speaking Topics: blogging | social media | corporate blogging | community | twitter | enterprise 2.0 | Facebook | Flickr | social media strategy | LinkedIn | blogger relations | Social Media Best Practices | Social Media in the Enterprise | Enterprise 2.0 Strategy | Enterprise 2.0 Best Practices | Community Manager | YouTube
Spoken Languages: English

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Jamie Pappas is a successful Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategist, evangelist, and community manager at EMC Corporation, offering an excellent track record of proven leadership and subject matter expertise. Jamie has a hand in developing and driving overall Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategy across the entire organization, identifying opportunities to integrate social media and community into the daily lives of employees, both internally as a team collaboration tool, and externally as a way to engage with customers, partners and prospects.

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• Quick Contact JNedeau

Location: New York | NY USA
Speaking Topics: blogging | feminism | millennials | online media | progressive politics | social media | twitter
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in New York City, where she works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media.

Nedeau became specialized in digital efforts while working for New Media Strategies in Arlington, VA where she employed corporate and non-profit online campaigns utilizing the power of social media to promote and protect her clients.

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Location: Austria | Vienna
Speaking Topics: blogging | corporate blogging | online pr | social media | social media marketing
Spoken Languages: German | English

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Sueholzer is an Austrian Social Media and Online PR Speaker who has consulted serveral brands on those topics, for example Swarovski or Silhouette.

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• Quick Contact SarahGranger

Location: San Francisco | California | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: internet culture | new media | blogging | digital democracy | online politics | Network Security | electronic privacy
Spoken Languages: English

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Focused early on the intersection between technology and society, Sarah Granger's work spans from the days of the BBS to Web 2.0. Sarah is an award-winning journalist and new media strategist, she played a lead role in three technology start-ups, and she directed the launch of what Wired News called the "first true weblog to be put up by a politician," and she's an active community volunteer and organizer.

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Location: Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: software studies | WordPress | blog software | blogging | template culture
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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Anne Helmond is a New Media PhD candidate at the Mediastudies department at the University of Amsterdam where she studied New Media from 2004-2008. She graduated cum laude with a thesis on ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations.’ This research on the symbiotic relationship between blog software and search engines contributes to the existing research on blogs and blogging by framing it from a software-engine perspective and describing a different role of the blogger in this relationship.