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May 13 (Wednesday): Creating web content
- Vanessa Fox (Nine by Blue)
- Vanessa spends her time writing, speaking, and training companies on how to use key pieces of data to better drive product strategy and customer engagement online.
- She previously worked at Google and built Webmaster Central, which provides tools, information, and community for site owners about how their sites are performing in Google’s search engine. She also was instrumental in the sitemaps.org alliance of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search.
- She spent much of the 90s writing technical documentation for developers and spent a number of years managing feature and user interface development for a variety of consumer and enterprise-level products. In 1995, she built her first corporate web site. She was deeply involved in the tech industry discussion around the move from print to online (particularly as it related to user documentation, training, and marketing). She has run a number of online discussion forums and helped build several online communities.
- Scott Porad (I Can Has Cheezburger?)
- Scott Porad is the Cheezburger Technology Officer of Pet Holdings, Inc., the company behind the popular websites I Can Has Cheezburger? and Failblog.org. The Cheezburger Network is a collection of web sites where millions of people share moments of joy through the humor and wonder of
. - Before focusing on user-generated content, Scott focused on e-commerce and online retail as part of the initial launch team at drugstore.com, and online publishing and content management at ESPN.com. And, prior to that, he worked for Seth Godin’s Yoyodyne Entertainment and Small World Software.
- Scott’s personal blog is http://scottporad.com and you can follow him at http://twitter.com/scottporad.