Our guest: Charlene Li - thought leader on emerging technologies

This will be sold out event. Our guest speaker is Charlene Li.

Title: Surviving in a Social World: Strategies and Tips from the Edge

Overview: Social media and technologies are becoming mainstream and IT executives especially have been thrust into the midst of this social boon -- or bust, depending on your point of view. Charlene Li will expand on the ideas from her national bestseller, "Groundswell" and provide strategies and tactics that will help you not just survive in social media, but thrive. So prepare for a lively evening by bringing your gnarliest social technology issues to this MeetUp.

As usual we'll have gourmet dinner and wine served.

Biography

Charlene Li is an independent thought leader on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She has a blog, "The Altimeter" that discusses these topics at blog.altimetergroup.com.

She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, "Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008.

Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW, and adTech.

Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999, after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company. She was also a consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and Amsterdam.

She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College.

Awards

* Co-author of "Groundswell", named by Amazon as one of the top 10 business books of 2008
* Named one of The 50 Most Influential People in Business IT by Baseline magazine
* Named Visionary of the Year by Society for New Communications Research, along with Josh Bernoff, Groundswell co-author
* Named by AdAge as one of its top 40 Women To Watch in 2008
* Named by NowPublic as one of the 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley
* Named one of CRM Magazine's 2008 Influential Leaders

Affiliations

* Advisory Board, Poynter Institute
* Advisory Board, Web 2.0 Expo