Meet The Experts

Al has written for a variety of green lifestyle blogs including his own (Cityhippy.net) and has had a number of articles published by media and business magazines as well.

Al is currently the Head of Marketing for NaturalCollection.com - the UKs leading non-food ethical retailer and winner of the UKs Observer Newspaper 'Ethical Awards' Retailer of the Year 2006.

You can contact Al on SKYPE and you can find out more about him via LINKED IN

I'm an educational technology developer at the Teaching & Learning Centre, which is a service department at The University of Calgary.

I get to spend some time playing with new technologies to support teaching and learning - including, but not limited to weblogs, wikis, podcasting, rss, and a few others. I also spend a fair amount of time thinking (and rethinking) about the concept of control and copyright, and how they might affect academia (What happens when a professor uses a wiki? a weblog? What would be the worst case scenario if someone that wasn't a registered student in a class and session was able to access the online resources for that class?)

I've been doing stuff with "learning objects" (whatever they are) for about a decade now (holy cow! a decade? yikes&helip;) and have been involved with the design and implementation of a couple of small custom commercial learning management systems.

Erin McKean is the Editor in Chief of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, and the editor of Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, the only magazine for word geeks. She is the author of Weird and Wonderful Words and More Weird and Wonderful Words. She lives in Chicago with her husband, her son, four computers, and three sewing machines.

As co-founder of Cooking Up A Story, a show on the web about people, food, and sustainable living, I often read other blogs on this subject. It's fascinating to me how complex the ecomomy of food production, politics, public health, and food safety are intertwined across all fabrics of our society.

Who would think that our nations decades old "Farm Bill" contributes greatly to the epidemic of obesity in this country? Who would have imagined how far we have traveled away from producing healthy foods, and protecting our vital farmlands?

These blogs represent diverse voices in the wilderness crying out for change. In many ways, traditional journalism, under relentless pressure from market forces, has failed to keep us adequately informed. Here are some important voices worthy of being heard.

Jordan McCollum was born and raised in North Carolina. She attended Brigham Young University and earned a Bachelor's with majors in American Studies and Linguistics and minors in English and Spanish. After graduation, Jordan became a copywriter, then a freelance writer and Internet marketing consultant.

Jordan married her husband, Ryan, in 2004. They welcomed a son, Hayden, into their family in February 2006. They make their home in Utah with one obnoxious cat named (unimaginatively) Whiskers.

In her free time, Jordan writes, maintains MamaBlogga: mom's search for meaning, is a staff writer for Marketing Pilgrim, the Internet marketing news blog, reads, knits, cooks or plays the piano.

Dr. Weiss is currently the Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University in 2002. Dr. Weiss has spoken and published on Negotiation, Mediation, and systemic approaches to dealing with conflict.

In his current capacity he conducts research, consults with many different types of organizations, delivers trainings, teaches courses on Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Management and Resolution, and practices the art and science his trade at the interstate, intrastate, and organizational levels.

Dr. Weiss also does a podcast called the Negotiation Tip of the Week in which he discusses many ideas and concepts related to the subject of negotiation.

A marketer by profession, Lynette spends a lot of time researching different technologies from a marketer's viewpoint. She helps other entrepreneurs sniff out technologies that could be used for business, troubleshooting and brain storming ways to build a better business with technology.

Michael Kolowich is a recognized pioneer and innovator in internet content, high-technology marketing, and application of digital video technology.

He is currently president and executive producer of DigiNovations, a digital video production studio in Concord, Massachusetts, and authors the Home page

Mike Rothman is Security Incite's President and Principal Analyst.

Mike’s bold predictions and irreverent style are invaluable as companies determine effective strategies to grapple with the dynamic security threatscape. Mike has a deep background in information security and is one of the guys that “knows where the bodies are buried” in the space.