GUEST SPEAKERS
John Dickerson is Slate magazine’s Chief Political Correspondent and a political analyst for CNN and NPR. He is also author of On Her Trail, a Simon and Schuster book about his mother, the late Nancy Dickerson, a pioneering newswoman. Prior to joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics for 12 years for TIME magazine. His last four years he was the magazine’s White House correspondent. John's been TWITTERING for some time now, and will tell you why.
Roz Allen is a writer, broadcaster, producer and all around troublemaker - originally from Vancouver, BC. Currently, Roz is living in Toronto, working as a freelance producer for CBC Radio, as a videographer and viral marketer for the hit CBC Radio comedy program, “The Debaters”, and as an Online Content Producer for the MaRS Centre. Roz is also developing a pilot, about the perils and punchlines that come along with citizen journalism.
Alfred Hermida is an online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.
The BBC veteran journalist leads the integrated journalism programme at the graduate School of Journalism of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Susan Ormiston is a correspondent for news and documentaries on CBC News: The National. She can also be seen and heard guest hosting CBC's top radio and television programs.
As a correspondent, Susan has covered several prominent events. She's travelled widely in North America reporting for the last 25 years and has been part of nearly every election reporting team since 1984. Susan's newest assignment is "Ormiston Online," which saw her digging deep into cyberspace, and sharing the buzz from social networking tools, with Canadians at large.
Kris Krug, after publishing a ground-breaking online magazine for several years, became president of Bryght - a "web 2.0" start-up who offer a unique hosting service. Through enthusiastic outreach, Kris helped create a marketplace for community-centric websites and his evangelism spawned an eco-system of related companies in Vancouver.
Well known in the blogging community, Kris regularly speaks at conferences and media programs around the world about Internet tools, new media, and evolving copyright standards. He is an organizer of the Vancouver tech conference Northern Voice as well as a catalyst for workshops and "un"conferences - most recently in Beijing and Shanghai.
Megan Cole is a social media consultant, building web strategies and implementing technology and social media tools to assist companies in community outreach and helping clients produce online communities.
Megan arrived here by way of social web marketing for Raincity Studios, a Vancouver-based web development and design studio, and worked as associate web designer at zu.com.
John Paolozzi remembers the heady days of the early internet, having started a website with friends back when just being able to centre your text was an exciting new feature. He joined CBC Television back in 2002 as the assistant film programmer for ZeD before moving on to work in the program's guest and special projects department. Then in 2005 he signed on to Radio3 as editor of the new website. When he isn't herding cats on the blog, he works to build R3's community presence on multiple third-party sites. John Paolozzi normally doesn't speak about himself in the third person.