| John
Arnold
John
Arnold, author of E-Mail Marketing for Dummies,
is a renowned marketing trainer and speaker as well
as an entrepreneur and small business consultant. He
has consulted with almost every type of small business
imaginable and has personally taken more than a dozen
small businesses from conception to fruition in the
retail, service, non-profit, and consulting industries,
including a nationally syndicated radio show. In 2006,
John helped to pioneer a small business training program
on behalf of the e-mail marketing company Constant Contact.
Through the program, John personally taught e-mail marketing
to thousands of small business owners, and his seminars
and workshops have since become a trusted source for
e-mail marketing strategies, tactics, and best practices.
During John’s tenure, Constant Contact was named
#166 on Inc. 500’s list of the fastest growing
private companies. John continues to train and advise
small business owners and he is a sought-after speaker
and consultant for Franchises, Chambers of Commerce,
Small Business Development Centers, Business Improvement
Districts, Visitors and Conventions Bureaus, and non-profit
organizations.
Edward
Baig
Edward Baig writes a weekly technology column for USA
TODAY and is the co-host of the weekly USA TODAY's Talking
Tech Podcast. He also contributes other tech-related
features, appears on radio and TV, and often moderates
technology panels at trade shows. His first book is
Macs for Dummies, published by Wiley.
David
W. Boles
David
W. Boles' books include Windows
95 Communication and Online Secrets for IDG Books
Worldwide, as well as Hand Jive: American Sign Language
for Real Life (2006) for Barnes & Noble Publishing,
Inc. Other writing credits include the United Kingdom's
Sheffield Hallam University conference on Tourism &
Performance: Scripts, Stages & Stories, Windows Magazine,
boot, net, the New Jersey Center for Bio Defense and
eyepiece. As the United States East Coast editor for
eyepiece magazine, the official publication of the Guild
of British Camera Technicians, he wrote about film and
television production. Davidıs MFA is from Columbia
University and his work as a Playwright has been performed
on and off-Broadway and by the Brooklyn Academy of Music's
Next Wave festival and on national tour across 16 states
and 27 cities. He has worked as an Editor for Macmillan,
Pearson Education and Prentice Hall. Teaching credits
over the last fifteen years include Columbia University,
New York University, Fordham University, University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey
Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, Saint Peterıs
College and the College of New Rochelle.
Gary David Bouton
Gary
David Bouton has authored 20 books on computer graphics,
including the complete Inside Adobe Photoshop
series, The Netscape Guide to Web Graphics,
books on 3D modeling, and CorelDraw. A professional
illustrator, Gary has over 20 years experience creating
television commercials and magazine ads as an advertising
agency Art Director. Gary has won four international
awards in design and Desktop Publishing.
Ted
Coombs
Ted Coombs is a computer forensic scientist and has
written many computer books, including Google Power
Tools Bible, ICQ FYI and Setting Up
an Internet Site for Dummies, programming books
like Programming with Visual Basic.NET, Programming
with C#.NET, dBASE 5 for Windows Programming
for Dummies, PowerBuilder 4 Programming for
Dummies and networking books such as Basic
Home Networking. His early training in anthropology
has led him to develop projects such as Wikihistory.org,
and his book, Banyan Drive: The Stories of Incredible
People. Another of his projects, OpenRecordBook.com
stems from his early inclusion in the Guinness Book
of World Records for roller skating across the United
States and back in 1979.
Dave
Crenshaw
Dave
Crenshaw is a Business Coach and President of Fresh
Juice Strategy. He began his coaching career in 1998
by becoming the youngest independent consultant, formerly
for E-Myth Worldwide. He had already coached business
owners several times his age before receiving his degree
in Business Management-Entrepreneurship. The creator
of the Fresh Juice Strategy program, Dave has coached
and consulted business owners from London to Manila
and from San Francisco to New York. He is the author
of the business fable, The
Myth of Multitasking, available nationwide in hardcover
in August '08 from Jossey-Bass.
Harold Davis
Harold Davis is a writer, photographer, and expert technologist.
He is the author of more than twenty books on a wide
range of topics, including Google Advertising Tools
(O'Reilly) and Digital Photography: Digital Field
Guide (Wiley). Harold's photographs have been widely
published, exhibited, and collected. Many of Harold's
fine art photography posters are well known, including
some recent alternatively processed digital flower images
published by New York Graphic Society. Harold's current
photography book projects include The Photographer's
Guide to Yosemite and the High Sierra (Countrymen/W.W.Norton),
100 Views of the Golden Gate (Wilderness Press)
and a new series of books about digital photography
from O'Reilly Digital Media. Harold writes the popular
Photoblog
2.0, which displays his photographs and covers a
wide range of topics related to digital imaging. In
his spare time, Harold likes to hike, dig in his garden
with his wife Phyllis, and play with his three wonderful
boys, Julian, Nicholas, and Mathew.
Michele Davis
Michele
Davis is a professional writer with experience in
the technical arena as well as non-technical. Michele
started writing on an IBM Selectric II and is glad the
hey day of the typewriter is dead allowing her to work
on her Mac G4 or her Windows 2000 PC. She has successfully
run three consulting companies in the past 18 years.
Michele has co-authored or edited 12 books and hundreds
of journal and magazine articles, including HTML
4.0 Bible (Wiley) and Dreamweaver Savvy
(Sybex).
Phyllis Davis
Phyllis Davis is a writer and book designer. She is
the author of many books, including Photoshop CS
For Dummies (Wiley), Photoshop CS Timesaving
Tips and Techiniques For Dummies (Wiley), The
GIMP: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press),
and CorelDraw: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit
Press). When she isn't writing and designing books or
creating Web sites, Phyllis likes to dig in her garden
with her husband, Harold, and play with her three wonderful
boys, Julian, Nicholas, and Mathew.
Holly
Day
Holly Day's writing has appeared in over 3,500 publications
internationally, including Computer Music Journal,
ROCKRGRL, Music Alive!, Guitar One,
Brutarian Magazine, Interface Technology, and
Mixdown Magazine. Over the past couple of decades,
her writing has received an Isaac Asimov Award, a National
Magazine Award, and two Midwest Writer's Grants. Her
books include The Insider's Guide to the Twin Cities
(3rd, 4th, and 5th editions, Globe-Pequot) Shakira
(Lucent Books), and Music Theory for Dummies
(Wiley). Her poetry and fiction is currently on display
at Starwood/LeMeridien hotel restaurants around the
world.
Michael
W. Dean
Michael
W. Dean is the director of the films D.I.Y.
OR DIE: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
and HUBERT SELBY JR: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow.
He toured the US and Europe in 2002 and 2003 with D.I.Y
or DIE. He wrote the books $30 Film School,
$30 Music School, $30 Writing School,
as well as the novels Starving in the Company of
Beautiful Women and The Simple Pleasures of
a Complex Girl. He co-wrote the book Digital
Music DIY Now! (along with Skip Frederiksen and
Cliff Truesdell), and he writes for Make Magazine. He
edited the book DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish.
Michael has been interviewed on NPR, BBC radio, PBS
and featured on NBC, VH1, and in Variety Magazine. He
has been invited many times to lecture at colleges,
museums and youth centers around American throughout
Europe. He was the singer with Warner Brothers recording
artists, Bomb. They put out four records and toured
the US and Europe. Michael says of his craft, "I
do not consider my artistic career to be a search for
a big break. I consider it a lifetime of small breaks
and constant work. I have heard that all human endeavor
is based on either fear or love. I strive to hone my
art into a sharp, pretty stick made of pure and brilliant
love, pointed directly at the throat of the consumer."
Michael W. Dean lives in East Los Angeles.
Stephanie Diamond
Stephanie Diamond founder of Digital Media Works, Inc. is a seasoned 20 year
management/marketing professional and is a frequent commentator and author
on the topics of digital marketing, product development, e-commerce, project
management and operations. Her book, Web Marketng for Small Businesses:
7 Steps to Explosive Business Growth (Sourcebooks, 2008) is the
culmination of the work she had done to help hundreds of online businesses
grow. Stephanie worked for eight years as Marketing Director at AOL,
creating a highly successful line of multimedia software products that sold
millions of copies for America Online, and she has subsequently developed
unique business strategies and products for a variety of companies. She has
worked for such media companies as AOL Time Warner, Redgate New Media and
Newsweek, Inc..
Kevin Epstein
Kevin
Epstein is a Silicon Valley marketing executive
with a Stanford MBA, an undergraduate degree in high-energy
nuclear physics, several technology patents in his name,
founding experience at three successful small-business
retail ventures, and more than fifteen subsequent years
of experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at such
software industry high-flyers as Netscape, RealNetworks,
Inktomi and VMware. Committed to innovation and appropriate
marketing, Kevin continues to serve as an outside advisor
to various venture-backed and individual entrepreneurial
start-up companies, and his first book, Marketing
Made Easy, is due to be published by Entrepreneur
Press in late 2006. Originally from the New England
area, Kevin currently lives in Northern California with
his wife and two children.
Mike
Fine
Mike Fine is an author with a passion for the outdoors.
Whether it is skiing, hiking, camping or paddling, Mike
spends his time with his family and friends enjoying
everything Utah has to offer. Since he is in shorts
year-round, you can determine which season it is by
the rack on his car. His newest work, Canoeing and
Kayaking in Utah, will be published in early 2006
by Countryman Press.
Dan Gookin
Dan Gookin has
been writing about computers and technology for over
25 years. He's the author of over 100 books, including
DOS For Dummies, the original For Dummies title.
His books have been translated into over 30 languages
and he had more than 14 million copies in print. His
latest titles include PCs For Dummies, 10th
Edition, Word 2007 for Dummies, Laptops
for Dummies, 2nd Edition, and The Programmer's
Guide to Ncurses. He's currently penning an upcoming
Windows Vista title as well as beginning work on what
he hopes will become a series of computer tutorial DVDs.
Dan lives in the Pacific Northwest and enjoys spending
time with his sons.
Peter Hipson
Peter D. Hipson is a teacher, author, consultant, electrical
engineer, and developer. He teaches computer science
at Franklin Pierce College, has written more than a
dozen books, including three books on the Windows registry.
He is also the author and developer of a number of Windows
application programs. His computer hardware experience
includes many different computer platforms, from PCs
to main-frame computers, as well as patents in CPU technology
and security.
Steve Horton
Steve Horton has been a freelance writer for eight years,
with hundreds of articles published in magazines such
as Laptop, PC Today, Mobile,
TechLiving, All In, Poker Player
Newspaper and Poker Pro. In the summer
of 2007, he was one of the official tournament reporters
for the World Series of Poker. Steve is the writer of
the Image Comics limited series Strongarm,
and his first two books are both on the merging of graphic
novels and technology: Professional Manga will
be published by Focal Press, and How to Publish
Webcomics will be published by Course Technology PTR, both
in 2008.
Sue Jenkins
Sue Jenkins is a web designer, graphic designer, artist,
illustrator, writer, and teacher. Since 1997, through
her design company Luckychair,
she has designed projects for financial institutions,
non-profit organizations, small businesses, business
consultancies, writers, artists, and photographers.
From 2002-2005, Sue ran her own greeting card company,
Luckychair Cards, and continues to license those and
other images to manufacturers and internet clients.
In 2005 Sue began teaching software courses at Noble
Desktop where she now regularly instructs both individuals
and groups in such subjects as Macromedia Dreamweaver,
Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. Jenkins currently
writes quarterly articles for TechTrax, an online e-zine, her first book,
Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies All in One Desk Reference,
was released by Wiley in July 2006, and she is now working
on her second book for Wiley on Web Design. Sue currently
lives in New York City with her husband Phil, a college
teacher, and her three year old son Kyle, an avid painter
and interior rearranger.
Ron
Kay
Ron Kay, the author of Ron Kay's Guide to Zion National
Park: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Zion
National Park But Didn't Know Who to Ask! (Countryman
Press, 2008), works for Zion National Park as a park
ranger providing programs to visitors on the geology,
the flora and fauna, and the human history of the desert
southwest. Ron also teaches for the Dixie State College
Elderhostel program in addition to offering numerous
classes for the general public through the Zion Canyon
Field Institute and as a guest lecturer. Geologists,
biologists, and naturalists from around the world seek
Ron's recognized expertise in these fields. The Discovery
Channel has also featured Ron and his expertise as part
of their desert southwest programs. Ron is also an accomplished
photographer and has been photographing the animals,
plants, and scenery of the desert for many years. Ron
is currently working on several new books regarding
the desert southwest and the Colorado Plateau.
Shirl
Kennedy
Shirl
Kennedy lives in St. Petersburg, FL and is the base
librarian at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. She also
writes about technology and the Internet, and edits
two information industry weblogs, ResourceShelf.com
and DocuTicker.com. A former newspaper reporter, she
has a masters degree in library and information science
from the University of South Florida. She has two amazing
sons and a 2005 Yamaha V-Star 1100 Midnight Custom motorcycle.
The author of Best Bet Internet: Reference and Research
When You Don't Have Time to Mess Around, Shirl
is currently writing The Savvy Guide to Motorcycles
for Sams/IndyTech Publishing.
Bill
Loguidice
Bill
Loguidice is a long-time business, technology, staffing
and creative professional. He has contributed to various
business, entertainment and medical periodicals, writing
and developing ideas to a variety of topics. A videogame
and computer collector since before it was trendy, Bill
is presently the co-founder and editor for the online
magazine, Armchair
Arcade, one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Websites for
2005.
Richard
Mansfield
Richard Mansfield's books have sold more than 500,000
copies worldwide, and have been translated into 12 languages.
His recent titles include How to Do Everything With
Second Life (McGraw-Hill), CSS Web Design for
Dummies (Wiley), Office 2003 Application Development
All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley),
The Visual Basic .NET Power Toolkit (Sybex,
with Evangelos Petroutsos), and The Savvy Guide
to Digital Music (SAMS). From 1981 through 1987,
Richard Mansfield was editor of COMPUTE! Magazine. He
has written hundreds of magazine articles and two columns.
From 1987 to 1991 he was editorial director and partner
in Signal Research, and began writing books full-time
in 1991. He has written 41 computer books since 1982.
Of those, four became bestsellers: Machine Language
for Beginners (COMPUTE! Books), The Second
Book of Machine Language (COMPUTE! Books), The
Visual Guide to Visual Basic (Ventana), and The
Visual Basic Power Toolkit (Ventana, with Evangelos
Petroutsos). |
Chef
Marie
Chef
Marie,
a native of Paris, France, created the Certified Personal
Fitness Chef Program marketed by John Spencer Ellis,
President of NESTA. She also created ³A Recipe for Life²
CD which eventually led, in 2006, to a joined venture
with Dr. Apostolos Pappas to co-author The Saint-Tropez
Diet (Hatherleigh). In 2007, she and her friend,
Lucho Crisalle (Registered Dietitian) released ³To Your
Health - The Health Benefits of Pairing Food & Wine²
CD/DVD. In mid-2007 Chef Marie launched "A Passion For
Life" containing her very best works and that will help
anyone acquiring a healthy lifestyle. Chef Marie has
received excellent reviews from various magazines and
newspapers such as OC Metro, Westways Magazine, Uptown
San Diego District Magazine, OC Flair, and North Orange
County Magazine. The Saint-Tropez Diet was
featured in the New York Post, New York Daily News,
Life & Style Magazine, Vogue, Fox News, Health News
Digest, and many more.
John
Mueller
John
Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor.
He has writing in his blood, having produced 67 books
and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from
networking to artificial intelligence and from database
management to heads down programming. Some of his current
books include a Windows power optimization book, a book
on .NET security, and books on Amazon Web Services,
Google Web Services, and eBay Web Services. His technical
editing skills have helped over 39 authors refine the
content of their manuscripts. John has provided technical
editing services to both Data Based Advisor and Coast
Compute magazines. He's also contributed articles to
magazines like DevSource, InformIT, SQL Server Professional,
Visual C++ Developer, Hard Core Visual Basic, asp.netPRO,
Software Test and Performance, and Visual Basic Developer.
He's currently the editor of the .NET electronic newsletter
for Pinnacle Publishing (http://www.freeenewsletters.com/).
Stephen
P. Olejniczak
Stephen P. Olejniczak's first book, Telecom
for Dummies is a culmination of the service knowledge
and wisdom he gained over 12 years in the telecom industry.
As a customer service manager and lead troubleshooting
technician, Stephen has taught thousands of employees,
customers, and salespeople about telephony and the telecom
industry. The questions and concerns of these groups
of people were the inspiration for this book that is
written to include concise steps for evaluating, ordering
and troubleshooting all basic telecom products.
Roger
C. Parker
Roger
C. Parker is a best-selling author who has helped
individuals and firms around the world profit from technological
innovations. Starting with the Dolby Noise Reduction
System, desktop publishing, and online marketing, Roger
C. Parker's simple, straightforward advice takes the
mystery out of using technology to market expertise
and promote professional services. His books include
Looking Good in Print, which the NY Times
called: "The one to buy when you're buying only one!"
Ronda
Racha Penrice
Ronda Racha Penrice's first book African American
History for Dummies is the culmination of a lifelong
interest in African American history and culture. For
over 12 years, shes worked as both a writer and editor
for mostly African American-interest publications covering
everything from arts & entertainment (television, film
and music) to lifestyle issues ranging from food and
travel to health and fitness. Her work has appeared
in Rap Pages (now defunct), The Source, Vibe, Vibe.com,
Creative Loafing, Essence, Essence.com, Honey
(defunct urban magazine for women), Turning Point
(California-based small business magazine for African
Americans), Urban Network (Urban music trade
publication), Jewel (magazine catering to young,
urban women) and AOLs Blackvoices.com, among
others. Publications that regularly feature her work
now include Uptown (a super-regional quarterly catering
to upscale African Americans in NY, Chicago, DC and
Atlanta), OverTime (bi-monthly publication
targeting retired athletes) and NiaOnline (health
& wellness online publication for African American women).
A Chicago native (with strong Mississippi roots), Penrice
began her writing career as a reviewer and later Contributing
Editor for The Quarterly Black Review of Books.
In addition, she worked as a film publicist for the
Los Angeles-based Roz Stevenson Public Relations (RSPR),
which specializes in publicizing films to an African
American audience. Films she worked on include Bring
It On, How High and The Fast and the
Furious. Penrice, a Columbia University graduate
who also attended the University of Mississippi's M.A.
program in Southern Studies, resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Gail
Perry, C.P.A.
Gail Perry is a CPA, financial journalist, author, speaker,
and instructor. She is a former senior tax accountant
with the Big Four accounting firm, Deloitte, where she
provided tax planning services and financial advice
to individuals and small businesses. Gail is the author
of 18 books and co-author of several more on various
aspects of personal finance, taxation, and financial
software. Her titles include, Surviving Financial
Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less
Income (Adams Media), The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Doing Your Income Taxes (Alpha Books),
Show Me QuickBooks (Que), and TurboTax
for Dummies (IDG Books now John Wiley & Sons).
She has also written hundreds of articles for newspapers,
magazines, and financial Web sites, is a contributing
editor at Accounting Today magazine, and was a weekly
tax columnist for five years for the Indianapolis Star
and Indianapolis News daily newspapers. Gail spent 10
years as a classroom instructor for the Indiana CPA
Society and currently teaches a college-level personal
finance course on the Internet. She is a former college
accounting instructor and has led many live webcasts
covering various financial issues.
Jon Phillips
Jon Phillips is a 20-year veteran of computers starting
out with the Commodore 64 in the mid-80s, armed with
many years of experience working with C, C++, Perl,
Oracle, and Open Source applications such as UNIX, Apache,
and PHP. He is also a member of the Twin Cities PHP
Userıs Group. Jon has post-secondary degrees in Computer
Science and has co-authored an Introduction to Oracle
book. He has primarily worked as a programmer for Oracle
Applications and web development for his consulting
firm, Kraut Companies. He can be found on the web at:
www.krautboy.com, Jon is multi-platform moving seamlessly
between Debian Etch, Mac OSX, and Windows 2000.
Janet Rae-Dupree
Janet Rae-Dupree, author of the New York Times column
Unboxed, has been an award-winning editor and
writer at national magazines and newspapers since the
early 1980s, first as a general news reporter, and later
as both a science/medicine writer and a business/technology
editor. Since 1993, she has been covering Silicon Valley
for a number of publications, including U.S. News
& World Report, BusinessWeek, the San
Jose Mercury News, the Silicon Valley/San Jose
Business Journal, Business 2.0, PC
World, CIO Insight, Acumen Journal
of Life Sciences, Red Herring, and Contribute
magazine. During the 2005-2006 academic year, she was
a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where
she studied biology and other science and engineering
disciplines, as well as researching innovation and market
transfer. She was a frequent guest on cable channel
Tech TV's "Silicon Spin" technology talk show prior
to its cancellation in 2002, and appeared in the show's
pilot in 1997. In 1992, she was part of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning team at the Los Angeles Times
covering that year's riots. A graduate of the University
of Michigan and native of Southern California, Ms. Rae-Dupree
was a University of Nevada Business Journalism Fellow
in 1997, winning the Best Financial Analysis award at
the program's conclusion. In 1998, she was one of the
first recipients of the prestigious Public Relations
Society of America Best Technology Coverage award. She
has shared in a National Headliners Award and won numerous
regional prizes in both Northern and Southern California.
She freelances from her home in Half Moon Bay, California,
where she lives with her husband, Dave Dupree, and son,
Matthew.
Andy Rathbone
Andy
Rathbone worked at daily newspapers, weekly tabloids,
and monthly magazines before switching to books and
their longer deadlines. He's written more than 40 books,
including the ten-million-copy bestseller, Windows
For Dummies.
Alison
Rogers
Alison
Rogers
is a real estate agent/writer. A summa cum laude graduate
of Harvard ('87), she spent many years writing for publications
including Fortune (staff), Money, The New York Times,
and salon.com
With this background, plus extensive personal real estate
experience, seven closings in six years, she was hired
to launch the real estate section of The New York Post.
Her first book, Diary of a Real Estate Rookie, chronicles
her attempt to switch careers from being a professional
real estate observer to being a professional real estate
practitioner. Of course, the first year of marriage
seemed like a good time to try that. In the words of
the book, "It is a story of failure, and tears, and
immense love. There are some pretty tricked-out luxury
condos along the way." Having earned her real estate
licenses in New Jersey and New York, Rogers is now an
agent serving downtown Manhattan (Tribeca, Chelsea,
Greenwich Village). She continues to offer advice through
her website, and to journal-ize her adventures in a
weekly column on real estate news site inman.com.
Cameron
M. Smith
Working from his home in Portland, Oregon, Cameron writes popular science and true
outdoor-adventure narratives. He recently published
The Top Ten Myths About Evolution (Prometheus
2006), a book endorsed by the National Center for Science
Education and Ann Druyan, frequent collaborator with
the late Carl Sagan. His popular-science articles have
appeared in many magazines, including Scientific American
MIND, Playboy, Archaeology, The Writer, South American
Explorer, Spaceflight, The Next Step, Skeptical Inquirer
and Cultural Survival. His true adventure narratives
Escape From Darien (about sailing a 20-ton log raft
off Colombia) and Ice Ghost (about trekking alone on
Alaska's north shore in Winter) have been published
in They Lived to Tell The Tale: True Stories of Adventure
from the Legendary Explorers Club, and The Best Travel
Writing 2008, respectively. He's currently writing two
books; Anthropology for Dummies (Wiley, 2008), and The
Frost Giants, the wild tale of his four Winter expeditions
to Iceland. Cameron, who holds a PhD in Archaeology
from Canada?s Simon Fraser University, is an Adjunct
Associate Professor at Portland State University's Department
of Anthropology. His current expedition plans include
paragliding and SCUBA diving in the Arctic in the next
few Winters. His blog, Amphibian Adventures covers
his recent travels and writings.
Barrie Sosinsky
Barrie Sosinsky is an technology analyst and writer
who follows the computer industry in areas such as servers,
storage, networking, and enterprise computing. He is
the author of over 25 books and 400 articles that have
appeared in several industry trade magazines. His recent
books have included: Upgrading and Repairing Servers
(Que), PC Magazine Wireless Solutions, Mastering Sun
Solaris (Sybex), and others. Sosinsky does white papers
for corporate clients. His current projects include
launching a web site aimed at information technologists
and a separate general science site. He is located in
Medfield Massachuesetts and can be contacted at barries@sosinsky-group.com.
Christopher Spencer
Christopher Spencer is a former celebrity manager and
lifelong entrepreneur. He started selling on eBay in
1998 and quickly grew his online business into a major
enterprise. He committed himself full-time to eBay in
2000, and it wasnıt long before eBay asked him to moderate
seminars, classes and special events for eBay users
throughout the country. Spencer is a Trading Assistant,
which means that he doesn't own or buy any of the merchandise
he sells; rather, he takes items of any shape, size,
value or genre and lists them on eBay for a fee. This
no-investment, no-risk model has made Spencer a highly
successful businessman on eBay, where he has listed
over 140,000 items. He is now a Shooting Star (a member
with over ten thousand feedbacks) on eBay, an official
eBay University Instructor and a Certified eBay Educational
Specialist, ranking #4 out of the certified eBay trainers
in the country. His first book, The
eBay Entrepreneur: The Definitive Guide to Starting
Your Own eBay Trading Assistant Business,
will be published by Kaplan Publishing in 2006.
Janna
Sweenie
Janna
M. Sweenie's first book is Hand Jive: American
Sign Language for Real Life to be published by
Barnes & Noble in 2006. Born Deaf in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, Janna graduated from the Iowa School for the Deaf
and later became one of the first Deaf graduates of
The City University of New Yorkıs Lehman College. Her
Masters degree in Deafness Rehabilitation is from New
York University. For over 15 years she has taught American
Sign Language levels 1-4 at NYU. Other teaching credits
include Montclair State University, LaGuardia Community
College and Catholic Charities of Brooklyn. Janna appeared
on Broadway as an interpreter for 42nd Street and Flower
Drum Song and for the past five years she has served
as an advisor for the Juilliard/Theatre Development
Fundıs Interpreting for the Theatre training program.
Taz
Tally
Taz
Tally is President of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer
publishing, consulting, and training company. He is
the author of numerous books, including Acrobat
and PDF Solutions, and Electronic Publishing:
Avoiding the Output Blues, and Silverfast:
The Official Guide, and contributing author to
The Photoshop World Dream Team Book. Taz is
perhaps best known for his entertaining, content-rich
seminars and his ability to present complex materials
in a simple, easy to understand fashion.
Cliff
Truesdell
Cliff Truesdell works as a recording engineer and musician
at Take Root Recording Studio in San Francisco. After
studying guitar and composition at Berklee College of
Music, Cliff moved to San Francisco to play guitar in
a succession of increasingly louder punk rock bands.
Eventually a recording session at Take Root led to an
internship, which then led to a steady gig.
Over the years Cliff has worked on dozens of recordings
in a variety of capacities from engineer and producer
to songwriter, sequencer and arranger to multi-instrumentalist
session musician. In 2003 Cliff co-founded the band
Black Furies, a San Francisco-based Punk/Rock band.
Signed to Gearhead Records in 2005, Black Furies continue
to tour and record extensively.
Cliff's original music has appeared in video games,
independent movies and television shows including MTV's
Real World and most recently Bravo's "Queer Eye
for the Straight Guy."
Lee
Varis
Lee
Varis is an advertising photographer and digital
artist working in the entertainment industry in Los
Angeles. He has been digital for the last 18 years and
has taught numerous Photoshop courses and consulted
for major corporations. His first book Digital photography
for Creative Professionals is in its 2nd edition
with Rockport Publishers. He is currently working on
a book titled Skin: the Complete Guide to Digitally
Photographing and Retouching the Human Surface
for Sybex. He has written magazine articles for Design
Graphics, Photo Electronic Imaging, PC
Photo, Digital Photo Pro, RangeFinder
and his work has appeared in National Geographic,
Fortune and Newsweek. Lee is considered
to be one of the pre-eminent digital photography/Photoshop
Gurus in Los Angeles and is one of the founders of the
LA Digital Imaging Group.
Rich
Wagner
Rich
Wagner is author of The Gospel Unplugged,
C.S. Lewis & Narnia For Dummies, Christianity
For Dummies, and Christian Prayer For Dummies.
Rich has been a frequent guest on radio and television
programs across the country discussing C.S. Lewis &
Narnia,Christian music, prayer, and other Christian-oriented
issues. Rich is a versatile writer whose expertise also
includes web technology. His tech titles include Web
Design Before & After Makeovers, Yahoo! SiteBuilder
For Dummies, and XML All-In-One Desk Reference
For Dummies. Prior to becoming a full-time writer,
Rich was previously V.P. of Product Development at NetObjects
as well as inventor of NetObjects ScriptBuilder, an
award-winning software tool.
Michelle
Waitzman
Michelle Waitzman was born and raised in Toronto, Canada,
where she worked in TV production for almost 20 years.
Between production gigs, Michelle's natural wanderlust
took her on adventures around the planet, and introduced
her to the wonderful world of camping. In 2005 her wanderlust
took over completely and she relocated to Wellington,
New Zealand in search of its fabled "great outdoors."
Inspired by New Zealand's passion for "tramping"
(backpacking) and a newly acquired partner, she wrote
her first book, Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple's Guide
to Getting Naughty in Nature (Wilderness Press,
2007). Michelle's latest project is Moon Living
Abroad in New Zealand, a guide for those wanting
to follow in her footsteps and move to New Zealand.
She also creates fun and educational travel activities
for the travel-planning website Home & Abroad.
Michelle blogs about outdoor recreation, camping adventures,
and life Down Under at www.loveinatent.blogspot.com.
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