Susan has developed speaker programs, workshops and related events for numerous conferences and groups including

• WAM!, Women, Action, Media, Boston, MA, March 2009, speaking at pre-event workshop and two sessions
• Maynard Institute workshop held at USC/Annenberg, March 2009
• Session leader, social media, WeMedia 2009, Miami, FL
  
• Knight Foundation Community Information Forums, 2009
• Online News Association, 2009 (http:// www.onlinenewsassociation.org)
• Women Who Tech, 2008 (http://womenwhotech.org)
• O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, 2008 (http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/home)
• Arse Electronika, 2008 (http:// www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/about.html)
• Widget Web Expo, 2007 (keynote) (http://www.widgetwebexpo.com)
• BlogHer, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (http://www.blogher.com)
• She's Geeky, Santa Clara, 2007 (http://shesgeeky.org)
• Country Living Women Entrepreneurs Conference, 2008 (http:// www.countryliving.com/women/the-cl-awards)
• Idate, 2007 (http://idate.com)
• We Media, ifocos, 2006, 2007 (wemedia.com)
• Gnomedex, 2006 (http://gnomedex.com)
• 12th World Editors Forum, 2005 (http://ww.wan-press.org/wef/)
• BlogOn, 2004 (http:/blogon.com)
• BloggerCon, 2003, 2004 (http://bloggercon.org)

Susan has some free handouts and white papers you can check out:

• Using social media for social change (written for WeMedia 2009)
• The social media toolbox (written for Knight Foundation Information Needs of Communities session)
• Build your brand through social media (presented at Maynard Institute workshop
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MORE ON SUSAN

Susan's LinkedIn resume is here, and her wikipedia entry here.

Places to follow Susan:
Susan Mernit's blog: susanmernit.com
Twitter: susanmernit
Friendfeed: smernit
BlogHer: blogher.com/blog/susan-mernit
Huffington Post: huffingtonpost.com/susan-mernit/

Susan's bio:

Susan Mernit is a co-founder of Pink Garage, a new online community and resource for women entrepreneurs, and a product development, business strategy and social media consultant who recently ran the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge, awarding $5MM to support innovative local projects that expand online news and community discourse.

She is actively consulting with non-profits, start-ups, foundations and mission-driven companies on business and product development strategy and execution, social media strategy, and on leadership and reinvention.

Passionate about women's issues and women entrepreneurs, she recently led a guerilla action to mentor women applying to ycombinator, an early stage tech incubator. Her last startup (Peoples' Software Company) was selected as a 2008 TechStars incubator company (techstars.org) She is a BlogHer contributing editor on Sex & Relationships, a former exec at Yahoo, AOL, Netscape and Advance Internet,  a dedicated blogger and  a long time online news and media person.

She is currently involved in  the Public Media Collaborative, a new group organizing to train and mentor  nonprofits and local commmunity groups in using social media tools to deepen member engagement, reach new audiences, market campaigns, and use micro-donation.