Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442142732)

Dawn Foster is a consultant, community manager, event organizer, blogger, podcaster, technology enthusiast and business professional. She provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities and has more than 13 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, market research, social media, blogging, podcasting, rss, community building, web 2.0, and open source software. Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she blogs for GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily. She is the community evangelist for Shizzow, a co-founder of Legion of Tech and is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp and Ignite Portland events. Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Kent State University. Previously, she worked at Intel, Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist. You can read Dawn's Fast Wonder Blog to learn more about her ideas. http: //fastwonderblog.com