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Location: California | SF Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: enterprise search | intranet search | site search
Spoken Languages: English

My approach to search tools (and all technology) is user-centered: how can this search engine give people more of what they need, faster and easier?

I can explain how all the elements of the search engines work: gathering, indexing, access control and security, query parsing, retrieval (finding match pages), relevance ranking, user interface and experience, and search log analysis. That is my seven-hour workshop - I can talk about various aspects of these topics in one to two hour presentations.

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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: Santa Monica | California | USA
Speaking Topics: green tech | environmental | sustainability | Green IT | college | social networking | Email Marketing | web site design
Spoken Languages: English and intermediate Spanish

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Jaime Nack is the President of Three Squares Inc., a cutting edge sustainability consulting firm specializing in producing environmentally sustainable high profile events and offering effective marketing and communications services. Three Squares Inc. uses social marketing tools and other online strategies to increase the reach for their clients' projects and products. Ms.

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Location: Long Beach | California | USA
Speaking Topics: social media | tactical media | net art | art of instruction | social practices | debunking consumerism | digital media
Spoken Languages: English

xtine is a media artist and educator, and the co-author of Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (New Riders/AIGA 2009). She is informed by the history of conceptual art and practices in the era of social-networking. Using tools common to consumer web practices, such as databases, search engines, blogs, and applications – sometimes in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, she creates web projects and communities that foster interpretation and autonomy.

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Location: SF Bay Area | California | USA
Speaking Topics: drupal | drupal modules | drupal theming | ultimate frisbee
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: California | Los Angeles
Speaking Topics: new media | podcasting | social media | Social Media Public Relations
Spoken Languages: English

I'm someone who enjoys helping people understand how social media and new media works. I'm very conversation and give real world examples.

I have a lot of energy and my presentations include powerpoint, video, and other visual tools. You won't be bored. :)

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Location: California | Silicon Valley | USA
Speaking Topics: A/B testing | multivariate testing | SEO | usability testing | Web Design | Web standards
Spoken Languages: English

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Hi! I'm a web-everything located in the Bay Area of California. I'm extremely passionate about this field and my job and I love teaching others about it.

I started out at my current job knowing only HTML and have taught myself CSS, web standards, accessibility and usability features, search engine optimization, and am currently focusing on usability testing and multivariate testing to improve our properties. While I'd love to speak about anything, multivariate and A/B testing are my current focus and expertise.

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

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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: English | French

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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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Location: California | San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: Creative Commons | geek culture | open data | open source | perl | web2.0 | wikis | women in open source | women in technology | craft | freebase | geek feminism
Spoken Languages: English

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Kirrily Robert has been involved in open source software since 1993, as a Linux user, Perl developer, and community leader and advocate. She is best known for her work in the Perl community, where she has been a CPAN contributor, author, speaker, and trainer.