Marianne Sweeny

Location: USA | Washington | seattle
Speaking Topics: search | information architecture | SEO | SEM | web analytics
Spoken Languages: English

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SR Search Specialist | Information Architect

Sarah Schacht

Location: seattle | WA
Speaking Topics: E-democracy | effective online communications | feedback democracy | governmental transparency enabled by technology | online civic engagement

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Executive Director, Founder

Sarah Schacht is a political entrepreneur who searches for simple technology solutions to complex social problems. Eagerly involved in politics from an early age, she's been a conservative and a liberal, working for a range of causes and campaigns. In 2003, she left college to work on Howard Dean's presidential campaign, working in New Hampshire, Dean's national headquarters, Iowa, and Washington State. She specialized in youth outreach, crafting technical plans, online organizing, and field work.

Previous Presentations: 
Web 2.Open 2007, Ignite Seattle 2008, IYVS Conference 2007, pannelist at WAM! 2008, pannelist at the Center for American Progress' Online Advocacy Roundtable in January 2008, pannelist at Online Politics Conference 2008, speaker at iEdge 2008
Presentation Web Links: 
Ignite Seattle Talk, "Run the Government: A Primer for Online Citizens"
Blog reaction by Ross Mayfield of Socialtext

Sarah Novotny

Location: seattle
Speaking Topics: entrepreneurship | women in technology | 24/7 operations | NOC management | linux | MySQL

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Blue Gecko
Sarah Novotny on LinkedIn

I'm a founding partner of Blue Gecko -- Monitoring, administering, and tuning Oracle and other database environments, either on our database hosting platform, or at client's site with Remote DBA services