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Location: Minot | ND USA
Speaking Topics: Community Building | IT Outsourcing | Parenting with Technology | Portal development | SharePoint | system administration | Women in IT | Women Working from Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Geeky Moms CEO, Nicole Dyess, writes with one goal in mind - to teach women to use technology to their advantage. She has worked in the IT field for 12 years specializing in a multitude of applications and systems. She runs several online businesses but spends most of her time brainstorming new ideas, creating music and playing with her kids.

http://geekymoms.com

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Location: Central NJ
Speaking Topics: Building a small buisness from a blog | Community Building | building a blog network | freelance writing | how social media benefits freelancers | using social media tools to find work
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: Melbourne Australia
Speaking Topics: social media | microblogging | enterprise 2.0 | blogging | Collaboration | communities | social networking | Web 2.0 | wikis | innovation | Community Building | creativity | creativity in the workplace | technology in libraries | + much more
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact mariasipka

Location: Barcelona Spain
Speaking Topics: Community Building | monetization | online communities | social media
Spoken Languages: English | Slovak

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(The photo is from my Indian wedding in New Delhi 2008. I'm an Australian living in Spain. Why? 300 days of sunshine, sea & starting work at 10am)

So what's so special about online communities and groups?

Today, you cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the power of online communities and groups. The fact is, there are 80 million communities and groups online. Most of them existing within 2,000+ Social Networks. 250 million people are registered and active in at least one online community or group.

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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.

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• Quick Contact alizasherman

Location: Anchorage | Alaska | Canada but frequent trips to USA
Speaking Topics: Web 2.0 | social media marketing | integrated online social development | Second Life | blogging | microblogging | Community Building | mommy blogging
Spoken Languages: English

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"It's a man's world out there in cyberspace - but not if Aliza Sherman has anything to say about it. Her mission: empower women and girls through technology." -- The Wall Street Journal

Aliza Sherman is the Original Cybergrrl - an Internet thought leader, highly sought-after online marketing expert and passionate evangelist for the Internet, particularly as a valuable and useful tool for our personal and professional lives. She is a motivational and inspirational speaker who has spoken around the world about the Internet, entrepreneurship and women's empowerment.

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Location: Fribourg | Switzerland
Speaking Topics: Amarok | bug management | Community Building | Free Software issues | women in technology
Spoken Languages: German | French | English | Italian

A trained pharmacist, teacher and translator, Myriam is a technology geek since her youth, now mainly interested in issues regarding Free Software.
Giving a helping hand at the FSFE booth during European events since 2001, she promotes Free Software wherever she can. Myriam is the official contact of the Ubuntu Swiss Team and also participates in the Ubuntu Women Team and the Kubuntu Team. She recently put her focus on KDE support on IRC as well as bug triaging for KDE and the Amarok Team.
She is a proud member of the KDE e.V. and a fellow of the FSFE.

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• Quick Contact jarich

Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

• Quick Contact lh

Location: California | Mountain View | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Community Building | Geek Herding | open source
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Leslie also facilitates open source community hackathons, both at Google's Corporate HQ and beyond. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her fiance Ben.

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• Quick Contact mynameiskate

Location: Canada | Vancouver
Speaking Topics: social media | blogging | blogger relations | Community Building | digital marketing | Second Life
Spoken Languages: English

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An Internet trailblazer from pre-Web days, Kate Trgovac started her digital marketing career when plain text email was the marketing tool of choice. Over her 17-year career, she has worked for several clients, including Nike, Molson, Nabisco, Procter and Gamble, Fido and Petro-Canada. In 2007, Kate founded LintBucket Media, a boutique marketing agency headquartered in Vancouver that focuses on social media, community building and co-creation between brands and their audiences.