InfoCamp Berkeley 2010/People
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Keynote speaker
Erin McKean
likes to call herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She is the CEO and co-founder of Wordnik, a new online dictionary project. Before founding Wordnik, she was Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, and the editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e. She is the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly. and the author of Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, and That’s Amore (also about words). Her first novel, The Secret Lives of Dresses is due out from Grand Central Publishing in 2011. She is a regular language columnist for the Boston Globe. Previously, she was the editorial manager for the Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionaries at ScottForesman, a Pearson company. She has served on the board of the Dictionary Society of North America and on the editorial board for its journal, Dictionaries, as well as on the editorial board for the journal of the American Dialect Society, American Speech. She also serves on the advisory board of Credo Reference, is on the Visiting Committee to the University of Chicago Libraries, and was previously an advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. She lives in Chicago, rants about dresses on her blog (A Dress A Day), and she’s actually really bad at Scrabble (but surprisingly good at roller-skating).
Participants - List yourself!
(alphabetical by last name + Twitter or any other links you may want to add)
Liat Berdugo
- what i tweet - http://twitter.com/boringintimacy | http://twitter.com/missioncatcalls
- what i read - http://bit.ly/whatliat | http://delicious.com/whatliat
- what i do - http://www.linkedin.com/in/liatberdugo | http://plancast.com/liat
Adena DeMonte -
- Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/adenademonte
Heather Ford
- Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa
- Blog - http://hblog.org
Lia Friedman
Rachel Hollowgrass
shahid hussain - wikia
Abi Jones
- Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/jonesabi
- About Me - http://jonesabi.com
- Food - http://heateatreview.com
- Neat Stuff - http://ohbrilliant.com
Helen Josephine - helenj
Jodi Levin
- Twitter - http://twitter.com/Jodi_Levin
Michael Lissner -
- Twitter - mlissner
- Blog - http://michaeljaylissner.com
Ted Louie
Mary Lukanuski
- LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlukanuski
Ljuba Miljkovic
- Twitter - @ljuba
- Portfolio - www.ljuba.net
Avi Rappoport
Andrew Szydlowski
- @AndrewSzy
Gabe Smedresman
Saghar Iranzadeh Tamaddon
Leslie Tom
Dan Turner
Bill Westerman
Jenny Yoon
Debbie Siegel
- About Me - http://people.ucsc.edu/~dsiegel/
Volunteers (Volunteer Registration is Closed)
1. Rachel Elkington
2. Prateek Kakirwar
3. Janani
4. Jin Young Baik
InfoCamp Berkeley 2010 Organizing Committee
Byler, Dan is an East Coast transplant with a penchant for long-term challenges. Case in point: he typed this blurb at a painfully slow 40 WPM due to a mid-January conversion to Dvorak. He came to the School of Information from a medical software company and is interested in research tools, product research and development. He is also currently vying for mayorship of South Hall.
Heather Ford is a South African social entrepreneur, researcher and writer who is fascinated by communities who get together to work, play and deliberate on the Internet. She is currently enrolled as a Masters student at the UC Berkeley iSchool where she is researching collaboration, enterprise 2.0 and the governance of global online communities. She is a former Wikimedia Foundation Advisory board member and the former Executive Director of iCommons - an international organisation started by Creative Commons to connect the open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. She was a co-founder of Creative Commons South Africa and of the South African non-profit, The African Commons Project as well as a community-building initiative called the GeekRetreat – bringing together 40 of South Africa’s top web entrepreneurs to talk about how to make the local Internet better. At night she dreams about writing books and finding time to draw.
George Hayes is a designer, artist, graduate student and dedicated biker. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 with a degree in Psychology and Fine Arts. Since then he has been working as a User Experience Designer for a number of media firms in Philadelphia and currently he freelances while in school. His interests are interaction design, computer mediated communication, photography for documenting exploration and new media installation work.
Kimra McPherson made her first website as soon as she learned to type. (Seriously — she designed it in her junior high typing class.) Once a journalist and TV critic, Kimra came to the School of Information at UC Berkeley to unite her professional interviewing and research experience with her long-time personal nerdery. When not thinking about the ways people interact with media or yelling about the usability issues with her DVR, Kimra reads magazines, climbs rocks, and bakes. And then she blogs about it.
Laura Paajanen grew up in Minnesota unaware that she was a geek. After studying visual arts with an emphasis in media/computing and a minor in cognitive science at UCSD, she worked in web, graphics, marketing, and video editing. Her initial plan was to explore human-computer interaction at the UC Berkeley School of Information, but now she is also fascinated with design thinking and collaboration. In addition to instigating, she enjoys swing dancing, fixing things, and crafting.
Michael Porath is a MMaster's student at the UC Berkeley School of Information with a dark past as IT consultant in the finance and telecommunication space. His focus is on Information Systems, as well as on Service, User Experience, and Process Design. Apart from these disciplines, he's very much interested in online learning tools and the cognitive impacts we all face when acting as Information Professionals all day long. In free minutes, he (would) enjoy more creative stuff like photography or painting -- as well as totally uncreative stuff. Like watching soccer.
David Rolnitzky is a first year master's student at the UC Berkeley School of Information where his studies focus on topics that his parents can't explain to others, mainly Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Design. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked in various marketing roles for software and web companies like Mozilla and Kodak Gallery. In his spare time he likes to take pictures and bike around town.
Thomas Schluchter is a first year master's student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Before coming here, he did things that were totally unrelated, including Musicology. The career switch to the information field is motivated by a deep interest in the relationship between people and technology. He wants to make it a better one and focuses on User Research and Interaction Design. In his free time... quite frankly, he doesn't have a lot of free time.
InfoCamp Berkeley 2010 Advisory Board
Rachel Elkington
Kristen Shuyler, a librarian at Seattle University, has helped run InfoCamp Seattle since 2007.
Andrew Szydlowski
