Jannie Warner -Meet the Geeks
‘Meet the Geeks’ :D is a series where i talk about a few people i follow and look into
in a ‘professional way’!
Janine Warner’s expertise in media, technology, and cross-cultural business have taken her on consulting assignments across the world and speaking engagements from New York to New Delhi. She’s the worlds most wanted lecturer on web and technology meets. I ve seen 4 of her DVDs on webdevelopment and man! belive me..this is one f a kind!
An award-winning journalist, her articles and columns have appeared in a variety of publications around the world, including The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper.
Janine is a guest reporter for the consumer technology show Into Tomorrow (a syndicated program that reaches more than 1 million weekly listeners), and she has been a featured guest on a variety of television news and technology programs.
Since 1996, she has authored more than a dozen books about the Internet, including Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies, the best-selling Dreamweaver For Dummies (now in its sixth edition), and Digital Family Album Basics, the first in a new series she created with Watson-Guptill.
Her success as an author attracted the attention of Total Training, Inc., a pioneer in innovative video-based training, where she was first contracted in 2005 to host a video called Total Training for Dreamweaver 8. Her first video won two industry awards and she is now working on a series of Web design videos that includes Advanced Dreamweaver 8 and Total Training for Microsoft Expression Web. Her latest series is featured at Microsoft.com. It has been released couple of days back and im sure it will have record breaking sales this week!
As a part-time faculty member, Warner has taught online journalism to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and at the University of Miami. She has also developed online journalism programs for the Western Knight Center, a joint project of USC and UC Berkeley funded by the Knight Foundation.
Warner has extensive Internet experience working on large and small Web sites. From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design business in Northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch International, Beth’s Desserts, and many other small and medium-size businesses.
In 1998, she joined The Miami Herald as their Online Managing Editor. A year later, she was promoted to Director of New Media and managed more than 50 designers, programmers, journalists, and marketing staff who produced the Web sites for The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and Miami.com. She left that position to serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an international technology media company.
She was a founding member of the Miami Internet Alliance and the South Florida chapter of WITI, and she served as a judge for the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet awards from 2001 to 2005. As part of that project, she helped to create an Internet literacy program for students in Central America called Operación Red (Operation Network).
Since 2001, Warner has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and consultant. She earned a degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and spent the first several years of her career in Northern California as a reporter and editor.
She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.
Visit her @
http://www.jcwarner.com
http://www.digitalfamily.com
http://www.totaltraining.com
http://www.microsoft.com
