Web Worker Daily

Web Worker Daily was launched by GigaOM’s Om Malik in September 2006 and is written by a growing team of writers who cover the future of work in a post-broadband world. We offer practical tips and advice for anyone who uses the web for work, especially those who want to use the web to be more productive, more connected and more successful than they could otherwise.

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Editor

Judi Sohn, Managing Editor: Judi has over 10 years experience as a home-based graphic designer, technology consultant and blogger. Now remotely managing a patient advocacy nonprofit organization, she truly lives the Web Worker life and brings her practical experience to the site content. Judi worked with former editor Anne Zelenka on the WWD book, Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working.

Writers

Mike Gunderloy, Senior Writer: Mike is an independent developer, author, and consultant who has been covering online technology for a variety of magazines and weblogs since 1995. His web work experience starts with a 300-baud acoustic modem and continues to managing virtual development teams across multiple continents today. He’s been writing software for over a quarter century in various environments, currently focusing on Ruby on Rails. In addition to writing for Web Worker Daily, he also maintains his own blog.

Imran Ali: Imran is a founding partner of Carbon Imagineering, a UK-based emerging technologies think tank incubating a number of technology startups as well as contributing expertise to various media properties, including O’Reilly Media and Corante and TechCrunch UK. Previously, Imran has been a Deputy Director of R&D for Orange UK, part of the advisory boards of O’Reilly’s ETel conference, Treasuremytext and the eComm 2008 conference, as as well as being on the board of ensembli and bmedi@. Imran’s personal blog is at http://imranali.name.

Scott Blitstein: Scott, everyone’s favorite technology go-to guy, is the founder and president of eSeMBe Technical Services, based in Park Forest, Illinois. Through this endeavor, Scott is dedicated to helping professionals and small businesses optimize efficiency & productivity through intelligent choice and implementation of technology products and services. True to his belief that the internet is a powerful tool for business and life, Scott is active in many online communities. He shares his technological, musical, and humorous opinions at his personal blog, MyThermos.

Jim Courtney: Jim is a contributing editor to Skype Journal who brings over 30 years’ experience in managing High Technology businesses addressing scientific, healthcare, engineering, computer hardware and software markets as well as consulting for Internet startup and business development activities. First introduced to web-based communications in 1995, he has followed IP-based conversation services and their evolution into business communications processes with a primary focus on the end user experience. This work has also resulted in a passionate interest in the mobile communications space and its impact on the user experience.

Samuel Dean: Samuel is an award-winning technology writer and editor. With 20 years of experience producing content for tech-focused sites and publications, he has covered nearly all prominent technology categories. Samuel began writing and editing about technology in the late 1980s, as the computer industry was beginning to bloom. He has edited several books on technology, and has won national journalism awards.

Pamela Poole: Pamela is a translator and technical writer, but for the last two years she has spent most of her time working to get her Internet startup off the ground. Four personal blogs and a novel-in-progress keep this geekette busy and entertained in her off time. She’s an American living in Paris and a lifelong Francophile, so she does occasionally leave the apartment.

Celine Roque: Celine has always been, and will always be a web worker - probably because she doesn’t like wearing make-up or showing up for anything. She lives in a small house in the Philippines with two cats, two dogs, and a rooster. Apart from Web Worker Daily, she also blogs at CelineRoque.com. She’d like to elaborate further on her eventful writing career, but she’d rather use this space to point out that a rooster is a very effective alarm clock.

Valerie M. Russo: Valerie is a published poet, a former NY Resident Newspaper and Bloggingstocks.com contributor, and the mind behind Literanista, a book blog. Once awarded the Langston Hughes award for writing, she’s also worked as an editor for AOL, Relegence and Thomson Reuters. Occasionally, an anthropology graduate student, she currently works as a web publicist at Hachette Book Group USA, keeps tabs on web trends and is writing a novel.

Aliza Sherman: Aliza is an author, freelance writer, blogger and Internet strategist who has been online since 1989 and working in “new media” since the early 90s. As a Web pioneer, she started the first woman-owned full-service Internet company in NYC, Cybergrrl, Inc., and has spent most of her time online ever since. Aliza is the Entrepreneur Mom blogger on WorkItMom.com and the Women at Work columnist at WomenEntrepreneur.com. A serial blogger, her “business” blog is Rants and Raves.

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