WebSearch University 2008 Speakers
Mary Ellen is the owner of Bates Information Services, providing strategic business research to business professionals and special librarians, and training and consulting services to the information industry. She is a prolific writer and speaker, having keynoted at conferences around the world and written six books and innumerable articles on the information industry. She is a regular columnist for
ONLINE magazine. She received her MLS from the University of California, Berkeley, and worked in special libraries for over a decade before starting her own company in 1991. She publishes two free monthly e-newsletters (see
www.BatesInfo.com) and she blogs at
Librarian Of Fortune. She serves on the board of directors of SLA.
Robert I Berkman Editor, The Information Advisor, Associate Professor, Media Studies, The New School, NY, NY |
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As the founder and editor of
The Information Advisor, an international monthly journal for business researchers, Robert Berkman has over 25 years of experience teaching others about effective research techniques. He is the author of several books on research, online searching, and the media, including The Art of Strategic Listening (Paramount Market Publishing, 2008); The Skeptical Business Searcher (CyberAge, 2004) and Find it Fast: How to Uncover Expert Information on Any Subject (HarperCollins, 5th ed. 2000). He has given workshops and presentations on research and searching to firms like Accenture and Eastman Kodak and organizations such as the Special Libraries Association and the European Journalism Centre.
Berkman is also an associate professor at the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School in New York City where his focus is on emerging media technologies. Berkman lives in Rochester, New York.
Laura Gordon-Murnane Intranet Web Master, Library, BNA |
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Laura Gordon-Murnane is currently employed at BNA as their intranet web master. She has been with BNA for over ten years. Laura earned her MLS degree from the University of Maryland. Library Journal named her as one of their Movers and Shakers for 2005 and she has published many articles for Searcher and Online.
Ran Hock Principal, Online Strategies |
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Ran is the author of The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook, The Traveler's Web, The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines, and Yahoo! to the Max. He is also a frequent contributor and columnist for professional publications. Through his company, Online Strategies, Ran creates and presents courses on using the Web for professional associations, governments, NGO's, companies, schools, and businesses in the U.S. and abroad. Ran has held management and training positions with DIALOG and Knight-Ridder Information Services, and has been a reference librarian at MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an adjunct faculty member for Catholic University's School of Library and Information Science, Lesley University's Technology in Education Program, and Johns Hopkins University. He is active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Association of Independent Information Professionals.
Marydee Ojala Editor, ONLINE Magazine |
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Marydee Ojala edits
ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals and writes its business research column ("The Dollar Sign"). She contributes feature articles and news stories to
Information Today,
Searcher,
EContent,
Computers in Libraries,
Intranets,
Cyber Skeptic's Guide to the Internet,
Business Information Review, and Information Today's NewsBreaks. Her blog is ONLINEInsider.net. A long-time observer of the information industry, she speaks frequently at conferences, such as WebSearch University, Internet Librarian, Online Information (London, UK), Internet Librarian International, and national library meetings outside the U.S. She has adjunct faculty status at the School of Library and Information Science at IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis). Her professional career began at BankAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, directing a worldwide program of research and information services. She established her independent information research business in 1987. Her undergraduate degree is from Brown University and her MLS was earned at the University of Pittsburgh.
Christina K Pikas Librarian, R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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Christina Pikas is a sci-tech librarian at the R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She has an MLS and BS in Physics from the University of Maryland and is currently pursuing her PhD in Information Studies. Christina blogs at
Christina's LIS Rant,
http://christinaslibraryrant.blogspot.com.
Gary Price Co-Founder, INFODocket & FullTextReports |
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Gary Price was the Founder and editor of both ResourceShelf and DocuTicker, published by Free Pint, Ltd. Having left those publications, he is now co-founder of INFODocket and FullTextReports. He co-authored (with Chris Sherman)
The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See, published by Information Today, Inc. Price lives in suburban Washington D.C. and earned a Masters of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Danny Sullivan Editor In Chief, Search Engine Land |
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Widely considered a leading "search engine guru," Danny Sullivan has been helping webmasters, marketers and everyday web users understand how search engines work for over a decade.
Danny's expertise about search engines is often sought by the media, and he has been quoted in places like The Wall St. Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The New Yorker and Newsweek and ABC's Nightline.
Danny began covering search engines in late 1995, when he undertook a study of how they indexed web pages. The results were published online as "A Webmaster's Guide To Search Engines," a pioneering effort to answer the many questions site designers and Internet publicists had about search engines.
The positive reaction from both marketers and general search engine users caused Danny to expand the guide into Search Engine Watch, where he served as editor-in-chief through November 2006. Now he heads up
Search Engine Land as editor-in-chief, taking it into the next generation of search coverage. Danny also serves as
Third Door Media's chief content officer.
Genie Tyburski Manager of Library Services, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP |
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Genie Tyburski is Manager of Library Services at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. She is a professional researcher, who has worked in law libraries for more than 20 years. Prior to her recent promotion, she managed the Web site, The Virtual Chase, which provided information on legal, business and public records research strategies. She has written for trade journals and newsletters, including Law Office Computing, Law Practice Magazine and The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research. Genie speaks about Internet research issues at information industry and continuing legal education programs. She teaches distance education classes on database and Web research as well as public records research for University of North Carolina, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She received recognition as one of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers 2004 and was featured in the book, Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers. She is editor of Introduction to Online Legal, Regulatory & Intellectual Property Research, which is a volume in the Business Research Solution Series by South-Western Education Publishing. Genie received her M.S. in Information Studies from Drexel University, and is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and Special Libraries Association.