Dimple Thakkar

Location: Los Angeles
Speaking Topics: social media | Marketing | online marketing | Web 2.0 | entertainment industry | music industry | branding and identity | Community Management | new media | digital pr | publicity | Facebook | twitter | online communities | web analytics
Spoken Languages: English

Jana Herwig

Location: Austria | Vienna
Speaking Topics: anthropology | blogging | Collaboration | knowledge management | new media | online collaboration | Personal Branding | pr 2.0 | Privacy | social media | twitter | virtual collaboration | Web 2.0 | web 3.0 | wikis | Social Media & Society
Spoken Languages: German | English | Dutch | some French | some Afrikaans

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Current position: PhD Candidate in Media Studies (Theatre, Film and Media Studies) at Vienna University.

Experience: work experience both in web 1.0 (project manager new media and CRM; before 2003: screen designer, web developer, online editor, community manager) and web 2.0 (blogger - corporate and on own account, self-appointed social media evangelist).

See also: my professional CV on XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Jana_Herwig

Number of talks about Social Media in 2009: eight (both at conferences and as part of in-house training or continued education events).

Previous Presentations: 
netcultures, Wissenschaftliche Tagung (Basel, 15.-16.10.2009)
eVideo Online-Konferenz (Berlin/Online, 12.-16.10.2009)
Internet: Critical (Milwaukee, 7.-10.10.2009)
Web as Culture (Gießen, 16.-18.07.2009)
Amateure im Web 2.0 (Wien, 24./25.4.2009)
Various Contributions to BarCamps and events such as the Viennese Digitalks.at

Jamie Pappas

Location: USA | Boston | Massachusetts
Speaking Topics: blogging | social media | corporate blogging | community | twitter | enterprise 2.0 | Facebook | Flickr | social media strategy | LinkedIn | blogger relations | Social Media Best Practices | Social Media in the Enterprise | Enterprise 2.0 Strategy | Enterprise 2.0 Best Practices | Community Manager | YouTube
Spoken Languages: English

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Jamie Pappas is a successful Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategist, evangelist, and community manager at EMC Corporation, offering an excellent track record of proven leadership and subject matter expertise. Jamie has a hand in developing and driving overall Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategy across the entire organization, identifying opportunities to integrate social media and community into the daily lives of employees, both internally as a team collaboration tool, and externally as a way to engage with customers, partners and prospects.

Janet Fouts

Location: San Jose
Speaking Topics: Coaching your clients through their fear of social media | measuring social media success | Social Medfia | Social Media and Search Engines | twitter
Spoken Languages: English

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Janet Fouts is a social media coach with over 13 years in online marketing and community. She speaks at a variety of events from boardroom training talks about social media to conferences of bloggers and social media practitioners. She is an active member of the Online Community Roundtable, San Francisco Women on the Web and several other tech and green organizations.
She is senior partner at Tatu Digital media http://www.tatudigital.com a web design and development firm specializing in web design,Wordpress installs, product demos and e-learning modules.

Previous Presentations: 
Nonprofit Technology Conference:Twitter- making the most of micro-blogging
Green Innovation Business Camp: Using Social Media to Promote your business
Wine Bloggers American Conference: Social Media platforms for the wine industry

Jen Nedeau

Location: New York | NY USA
Speaking Topics: blogging | feminism | millennials | online media | progressive politics | social media | twitter
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in New York City, where she works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media.

Nedeau became specialized in digital efforts while working for New Media Strategies in Arlington, VA where she employed corporate and non-profit online campaigns utilizing the power of social media to promote and protect her clients.

Previous Presentations: 
Netroots Nation 2009 Panel: Building a Conversation Across Generations of Progressive Women
Netroot Nation 2009 Training: Twitter - Separating the Hype from the Reality
Fem 2.0 2009 Panelist: At the Crossroads: Organizing the Next Generation of Feminists Online and Off
2009 Politics Online Conference: Will Old Media Paradigms Shift Into A New Media World?
Interact 2008 Presentation: Technology As A Means to Move Information Online

Katie Streten

Location: London | London UK
Speaking Topics: web 2.0 and the arts | twitter | branding | social media marketing | agency integration
Spoken Languages: French | English

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I found my spiritual home in the web after escaping telesales in 1995. Getting involved that early has meant that I've covered the full range of roles from programming and server management through design and user experience to content and strategy development - which is what I do now.

I'm head of strategy within the digital arm of Imagination (http://www.imagination.com), a global communications company, and focus on using technology to help our clients to engage their audiences appropriately and innovatively with the best technology available.

Previous Presentations: 
IAB Social Media Forum and IAB Luxury Forum both in 2009
Museums and the web 2006, 2005, 2000, 1999
Speaking at Ad:Tech 2009 in London

Liz Cable

Location: Leeds | UK
Speaking Topics: social networking | social media optimisation | women in leadership | open source | Cohesion | online communities | Web 2.0 | virtual apprenticeships | e-learning | social learning | flexible working | remote working | twitter | LinkedIn | social networking for business | social media marketing
Spoken Languages: English

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Liz Cable founded Reach Further Ltd in October 2006 with the aim of helping anyone and everyone to improve their lives using technology, specifically by increasing access to learning opportunities online, and earning opportunities beyond the traditional 9 to 5 roles.

Sarah Lay

Location: Derbyshire | England
Speaking Topics: devolved authorship in online publishing | online collaboration | online local government | social media | social media and local government | Social Media/Networking | twitter | writing for the web
Spoken Languages: English

I currently work in online communications for Derbyshire County Council with responsibility for website content and authors, training on our content management system and writing for the web, accessibility, usability, search, stats analysis, social media, innovation and digital engagement.

I am also a Masters student working toward an MA in eCommunications and will undertake my thesis in 2010 on social media in local government internal communications.

Previous Presentations: 
Session on academic research into local government use of social media at LocalGovCamp (an unconference for local government), Birmingham, June 2009

Silvina Bamrungpong

Location: Ventura County | Southern California | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: blogging | using social media | social networking | Facebook | digital divide | digital generation | academia and the digital generation | twitter | education and knowledge networks | digitizing academia | digital entrepreneurship | wikis | podcasting | community buil
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

Regine Heidorn

Location: Berlin | Germany
Speaking Topics: semantic web | Collaboration | CSS | mobile | online communities | online reputation | SEO | social networking | twitter | Web standards | wiki
Spoken Languages: German | English

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