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Adria is an experienced technology consultant that helps companies select new technologies, use social media and and market effectively online. She produces videos and online content to explain technology to the world.
After working as a network administrator with several certifications, Adria left her full-time job and begain consulting in 2006 to follow her passion of helping people have that, "Ah-ha!" moment that "make their eyes light up". She's an early adopter and is recognized in online communities for her expertise, enthusiasm and advocacy of cloud apps, social media and the pursuit of digital equality. Now living in San Francisco, Adria works with clients internationally to create compelling content about their brand, provides technology training and speaks about how to make technology work for you. Previous speaking engagements have included SXSW, BlogHer, Black Enterprise Entrepreneur's Conference, BlogWorld, Evoconf, Wordcamp and several private conferences.

Anne Taylor Hartzell is a public relations and marketing veteran with more than 15 years experience counseling consumer technology and travel companies. Passionate and skilled in the art of the "pitch," Anne specializes in creating social and traditional media campaigns that build brands and thought leadership for clients. Anne has launched dozens of early stage technology ventures, led communications for Farecast, leading up to its acquisition by Microsoft in early 2008 (now Bing Travel), and was part of the team that launched Bing.com. Anne is also a frequent speaker on the topics of personal branding and the founder of HipTravelMama.com, a family travel blog dedicated to sharing extraordinary family vacations, hip hotel reviews and creating retreats and events for moms. She is a partner in BestFamilyTravelAdvice.com, contributor for Dabble Magazine and a trained broadcast media spokesperson whose travel tips have appeared on CNN.com, CondeNastTraveler.com, KING 5 News, among others

Jennifer Miner is the conference organizer for this Mom Bloggers Camp. She is also the co-creator/editor of The Vacation Gals, a popular, multiple award-winning travel blog featuring family friendly destinations, tips for traveling with kids, romantic getaways, and more. Jennifer has had her pieces picked up by the websites of USA Today and the Chicago Sun-Times, is a regular contributor to Hilton Hotel's family travel website Suite Trip, has guest-posted for Fodors.com and Today Moms (The Today Show's family blog). She has also a creator and partner at The Vacation Gals' sister site, The Spa Gals, and created the Los Angeles Consortium of Online Travel. MSNBC's Chris Elliott named LACOT's blog, Los Angeles Online Travel, as one of the "11 Best New Blogs of 2011." Jennifer has spoken about travel and/or SEO at several national conferences including BlogHer, Type A Parent, and the Travel Bloggers Exchange.

Jessica Gottlieb has been a professional mom blogger more than six years now. Her eponymously named site has garnered the attention of mainstream media and marketers alike. Most importantly it has touched the lives of mothers around the world. While exposing herself Jessica has worked diligently to protect the privacy of her family. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of privacy and urges anyone who is about to embark on the business of social media to be mindful of their digital footprint as well as family members and friends.

Mary Jo Manzanares has been a lawyer for 30 years, but says she can't imaging being cooped up in a law office every day and is happy she's found a better way to make a living. She now crafts a lifestyle based on her interests and passions, combining travel, blogging, and speaking. Mary Jo has been a presenter at BlogHer, BlogWorld Expo (three times), has managed several web portals, and consults with numerous corporate and small business clients on topics ranging from copyright to content creation. She keeps up with issues in internet law, but acknowledges that there currently are more questions than answers in this emerging legal field. Mary Jo is the Editor in Chief for The Travelers Way and when she's not blogging enjoys a good book, a glass of red wine, a decadent spa treatment and a great pair of shoes.

Southern California-based travel photography instructor Ralph Velasco is an award-winning travel blogger and international photo tour guide. He´s also the creator of the My Shot Lists for Travel app for iPhone and iPod touch as well as the author of Ralph Velasco On Travel Photography: 101 Tips for Developing Your Photographic Eye & More. For both 2009 and 2010 he was awarded Open Photographer of the Year by the Professional Photographers of Orange County and he´s a member of the Photographic Society of America and the Circumnavigators Club.

Tanis Miller is the award-winning author of the blog Attack of the Redneck Mommy, a humorous and insightful look at the joys of domestication in an undomesticated setting. Tanis´s work has been featured on CNN, CBC, CBC News Network, and in a variety of Canadian and American newspapers and magazines. Attack of the Redneck Mommy has won three Bloggie awards as the Best Canadian Blog (2008, 2010, 2011) and is listed as one of the top 20 blogs in Facebook´s Network Blogs. Tanis also writes for Babble and iVillage.ca as well as being a contributing video blogger for Deca TV's popular website, Momversation. In her spare time, Tanis is on the board of directors for Violence Unsilenced and is a public speaker covering topics such as how to survive the death of a child as well as advocating for the rights of special needs children. Tanis lives in rural Canada with her family, is a proficient toilet bowl cleaner, cookie eater and laundry avoider.

Alberto Alcocer is a professional Mexican photographer who currently resides in Mexico City, although he considers himself a world citizen. The Guggenheim, Museum Mile in Nueva York, the Revolution Monument, the Angel of Independence in Mexico City, the galleries of Post Street, Barri Gotiv, the flower fields of Netherlands, Tierra del Fuego in Chile and the colossus over the Castellana in Madrid have educated the lens of this young man. Alberto has the skill of giving the spectators not only an object or scene, but a complete immersion to an emotion, a passion, an instant so they can complete the rest of the story. He said that his blogging adventure started by accident in 2003. In the beginning we could have written about technology or mathematics, but at the end he left all the technical terms used in a office and share the things that he enjoys the most in his blog b3co.com : pictures, travel, and books.