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Lisa Williams

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Lisa

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http://cadence90.com

Biography

Lisa Williams runs H2otown, a community and news site for Watertown, MA.

Lisa Williams runs H2otown, a community and news site for Watertown, MA.

Her current project is Placeblogger.com, an aggregator and searchable directory of independent local blogs. Since launching on January 1, 2007, the site has ammassed the largest available directory of local weblogs. Placeblogger was one of 21 winners of the Knight 21st Century News Challenge, an initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that invested over $5M in technology projects to help news and community thrive in the online era. She's also working on blogging and online community strategy for The Boston Globe's Boston.com.

Lisa's been blogging since 2000 on her personal site and is a member of the Berkman Blog Group hosted by the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. She's been working with the Center for Citizen Media since June of 2006.

Lisa has spoken at Bloggercon II and IV, BlogHer I and II, Media Giraffe's Democracy and Independence conference, and Citizen Journalism Unconference at Wikimania. In her previous career as a technology analyst, she spoke at many tech conferences. She's been a consultant to national and local publications on the subject of blogging and community engagement online.

Lisa can be reached at lisa AT cadence90 dot com.

You can find more information at Lisa's LinkedIn profile.