Laura Scroggins is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in technology and training.
An excellent leader with a record of contribution to improving financial performance, increased productivity and enhanced internal controls. As a co-founder of Tea Leaf Media Ms. Scroggins provides both vision and hands-on leadership including building the Tea Leaf Media professional services organization from the ground up.
I am currently the Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. I'm the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and write the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. I'm probably best known for my blog Information Wants to Be Free and the many wikis I've created to collect professional knowledge.
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I have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 10 years, in the UK and New Zealand. I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, I write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also Web Mistress for Alt TV, and producer/host of the weekly g33k show online and SKY 65 in New Zealand.
Jutta Horstmann is an IT consultant.
Her company "data in transit" provides Open Source software and services.
At the moment, she focusses on web programming, database applications and content management systems.
Before, she administrated UNIX and Linux systems as well as several database management system flavours.
Selena Deckelmann bikes herself to work everyday at Chris King Precision Components, a bicycle parts manufacturer in Portland, OR, where she is Information Systems Manager. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps organize Code n Splode, a programming group whose goal is to get more women involved in open source. She is on the board of Legion of Tech.
I am the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of the Silicon Valley. I also work as a consultant instructor for the Infopeople Project, serve on LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee, and speak internationally at live and online events for libraries and other institutions. I am perhaps best known for my blog, LibrarianInBlack.net, about the intersection of libraries and technology.
Certified project manager (PMP). Former IBM mainframe systems programmer. Drupal contributor. Freelance website developer.