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Bio–Tish Grier

Tish Grier — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:45:32 +0000

Blog editor and social media manager, We Media Miami

Outspoken, up and coming media focused freelance writer/blogger Tish Grier launched her career in new media in 2006. . .

Over the course of one year, she was named Editor of the Corante Media Hub, as well as contributor to Poynter Online’s E-Media TidBits blog, the Huffington Post , and Online Journalism Review. Many posts from her blog the Constant Observer continue to be quoted, linked, or re-posted across a wide variety of blogs and mainstream media publications.

Also in 2006, she was a panelist on civility and online community at SXSW Interactive, served as technology co-chair and keynote panel moderator on citizen journalism for the Media Giraffe–Democracy and Independence Conference, and spoke locally to the Ad Club of Western Massachusetts on blogging’s influence in marketing and advertising.

In her real-life Western Massachusetts community, Tish melds online and real life communication/community building as Associate Director and Volunteer Coordinator for the Northampton Independent Film Festival and is involved in other local arts-related projects.

Her passion for online communication and community building began in 1992 with a brief involvement with newsgroups and listserves. This interest in online community picked up again when she got unlimited, free Internet access for being a full-time, campus-dwelling student at Smith College. In 2001, she earned her BA in Religion and Biblical Literature and received highest honors for her innovative writing on cinematic interpretations of gospel texts.

Prior to attending to college, Tish was the Assistant to the Treasurer and Research Assistant at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ.

Bio – Dale Peskin

iFOCOS — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:21:30 +0000

Managing Director & Co-Founder, iFOCOS

Dale is a widely engaged expert advisor on media and communications business and creative strategies, information design and innovation. He was the executive director of New Directions for News, a media futures think tank that merged with The Media Center in September 2003. Prior to joining NDN, he was a vice president of Belo, the Dallas-based media company, where he launched the company’s initiatives in new media and media convergence. At Belo, Dale served as editor of Dallasnews.com and as an assistant managing editor of The Dallas Morning News. He was a founding officer of Belo Interactive, Belo’s network of news Web sites.
Dale has served as deputy managing editor of The Detroit News and The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, and managing editor of the Tribune Chronicle. Dale’s awards include NAA’s Digital Edge Award for Pioneering Online Journalism, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and four Gold Medals from the Society for News Design. He was part of the team at The Detroit News that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Bio – Andrew Nachison

iFOCOS — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:18:44 +0000

President, Executive Director & Co-Founder, iFOCOS
Andrew is an internationally recognized expert on media, technology and cultural trends. He is a writer and online publishing veteran who learned from remarkable teachers: the art of fiction from novelist Frank McCourt, computer programming from BASIC creator John Kemeney, and social activism from Pacific island nuclear testing witness and author David Bradley. He has reported and edited for The Associated Press; written for The New York Times, Infoworld, Audubon and other magazines; managed one of the world’s most ambitious small-market newspaper Web sites, lawrence.com; played clarinet at Tanglewood and Carnegie Hall; studied wildlife, development and environmental policy in Kenya; spoken on media convergence and business strategies in Asia and Europe; and currently serves on the advisory boards of the World Editors’ Forum, The Enthusiasts Group LLC, and NewsTrust.
Prio to launching iFOCOS he was director of The Media Center at the American Press Institute. Andrew has led dozens of symposia, seminars and executive forums on media convergence, media business development, emerging technology and other facets of the connected society, and he co-conceived and executed The Media Center’s 2003 merger with another media futures think tank, New Directions for News, creating a global network of researchers, thinkers and doers who contributed to the research, dialog and findings that guide his current trend watching explorations and client engagements around the world.

Andrew has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, as an online news editor and general manager, he founded the interactive media consultancy Nach Media, and taught journalism and new media at Indiana University. He has published one piece of short fiction, written many others (at nach.com) and swears there’s more to come. He earned a BA in philosophy at Dartmouth College and lives with his wife and two sons in Reston, Virginia.