Elaine Nelson

Location: Washington | Olympia
Speaking Topics: blogging | CSS | usability | Web standards

10 years of web design experience, including 8 with CSS & web standards. Have presented on usability testing in higher education at the HighEdWebDev conference. Started personal blog in 2001, have used blog tools in higher education and commercial settings as well. Worked with community college students during my work as a college web manager, spoke in community college classes on professional web design issues. Taught web design in summer camp for 9-11 year old kids.

Previous Presentations: 
HighEdWebDev, 2004: Web Site Assessment
Pierce College Digital Design intro course guest speaker, "What I do as a Web Manager"

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: java | gadgets | blogging | Working From Home | Internet | women in technology | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | OSX | RSS | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Spry | Women in IT | HTML | Technology | community | women in tech | Ajax | Widgets | Mac OS X | DHTML | gender | OS X | Web | weblogs

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How many hats can one woman wear?
I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977--yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more. I've authored or co-authored:
• "Ajax Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
• "JavaScript Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
• "Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide" (Peachpit Press, 2007)

Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.

Raena Jackson Armitage

Location: Melbourne
Speaking Topics: Web standards | content management | MySource Matrix | usability | accessibility

Stephanie Sullivan

Location: Wilmington | NC
Speaking Topics: accessibility | Adobe products | CSS | Dreamweaver | search engine optimization | Spry | Web standards | women in technology

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Founder and principal of web standards redesign company "W3Conversions, Stephanie Sullivan is a Dreamweaver, accessibility, CSS and XHTML expert, whose services are in demand by top firms across the United States. She's a top gun that companies go to for troubleshooting problems, training their web team, or to work behind-the-scenes transforming their in-house designs into functioning Web standards-based websites.

Previous Presentations: 
http://www.w3conversions.com/news.html
Above is the link to my past presentations - the front of my site has this year's schedule.
SXSW - What Women Need to Succeed