I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.
I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.
Suw Charman is a leading social software expert, specialising in the use of blogs and wikis in business. She works with companies around the world, from sectors as diverse as technology, finance and public relations, to help them understand how social software can be used both behind the firewall and for customer communications.
Suw is also the co-founder - alongside Lloyd Davis and Leisa Reichelt - of Fruitful Seminars, a series of intimate Web 2.0 workshops covering topics such as the adoption of social tools in business and the reduction of email through the use of social tools.
I like to share knowledge, which is why I am not limited just to speaking, but also am interested in workshops / expert tables and moderation. Additionally I have become a frequent advisor for organizers of conferences as well as am involved in several barcamps.
One of my favourite topics is how to grow your business internationally, both from the side of for example the US coming to Europe as vice versa, but I am also happy to 'just' transport what is so special about the net and web 2.0.
You can contact me by email at angela at wikia dot com
Angela Beesley has been involved with wikis for more than five years. With Jimmy Wales, she founded Wikia.com, a community-focused wiki company which is supporting the development of wikis on more than 6000 topics and in 70 different languages.
Angela chairs the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia.
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Rachel Segal is responsible for the marketing and communication initiatives at b5media. She blogs about life, work, music and photography on her personal blog, Debanter and is a regular contributor to independent Toronto arts magazine, Celery. Prior to b5media, Rachel led the marketing team at the music/technology company, MusicIP.
Alicia has an IT degree from Sydney, Australia, and has worked in internet and mobile application product management for 10 years.
However, in 2006, as a result of a failed Google job interview, Alicia decided to implement an idea for a web application she had come up with years before, and start her own web start-up.
She used her savings, and worked full-time while developing the proposition, and hired Romanian developers to make her vision a reality. It was hard unforgiving work, but her passion and dedication to her vision kept her working day and night.
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.
Lee Godfrey began working on web-based projects in 1993, making her one of Canada’s internet pioneers.
With over twenty years of consulting experience, and nearly a decade as one of Canada’s best known eBusiness educators, Lee brings a solid understanding of how to best exploit the power of technology and the web.
**********Not available until 2009. Due to production of the weekly g33k show, I am not available to speak until next year. ***********
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.
Monica Hamburg is a writer and social media evangelist in Vancouver, Canada. Her investigations and observations on social media (especially Crowdsourcing), and its relation to business and connecting, form the basis of her blog, “Me Like the Interweb”. She is a frequent contributor to the popular digital marketing magazine “One Degree”, as well as a former actor and class clown who now uses her dry humour for speaking engagements and in her blog “Your Dose of Lunacy”.