How to Capitalize on Blogging
Feb 5, 2004
Dublin, CA
9:00 - 2:00 PM Event
2:00 - 3:00 PM Networking Reception

Speakers:

Bill French
Co-founder
Myst Technology Partners

Bill French founded Global Technologies Corporation in 1981, a consulting and software product development firm. With a strong background in finance and accounting, Bill’s success in small business systems integration was perfect timing for the PC revolution. Building systems based on business requirements provided the background necessary to launch Global Technologies as an intellectual product development firm.

Bill’s work at Global Technologies focused on increased productivity for software developers, leading to the creation of dBRIEF, an editing environment that produced 25% to 50% greater personal efficiency. dBRIEF became the industry leader for PC database programming, garnering more than 80% market share before being acquired by Borland International in 1992. While on a quest for better PC-to-PC communications, Bill co-created LapLink, a desktop-to-laptop communications utility. With more than 16 million customers, LapLink has become a staple for mobile computing professionals, and has won awards in its category for the last 14 years. In 1994 Bill created the popular QuickSite web authoring system - the first small business content management system to employ database technology for managing and generating web content. QuickSite won more than seven industry awards in its first year of existence as more than 2 million non-technical business users chose it to launch their first web site initiatives.

In addition to authoring and co-authoring many popular award winning development tools including QuickSite, dBRIEF, Evolve, and LapLink, Bill has lectured at industry events to software developers in more than 16 countries from Canada to Malaysia, and the deepest regions of Africa. As a member of Ashton-Tate’s dBASE Language Advisory Board, and a former writer for DBMS Magazine, Database Advisor, and Lotus Notes Advisor, Bill has created and inspired many unique and productive business solutions.

Judith Meskill
Founder
Meskill.net

Judith Meskill has over 15 years of Internet Technology and Knowledge Work expertise with advanced skills in telecommunications, knowledge-transformation, web services, and information architecture. Judith does business as 'Meskill.net,' and also works as a partner with 'The Growth Solutions Group.'

Previously Judith worked with inServ as Vice President, Technology Innovation, and with SBC Internet Services as Executive Director, Technology & Knowledge Management, providing vision and leadership for knowledge-enabled web services and business product development.

Ms. Meskill has garnered enterprise recognition and service quality awards as well as high honors from both industry publications and benchmarking organizations. Judith has been interviewed and quoted by CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, eWeek,
Telephony, Global Telephony, Software Magazine, PR NewsWire, and USA Today and has also presented at national industry conferences including - KM World, Internet World, and Seybold SF.

Judith Meskill writes a Weblog, 'Judith Meskill's Knowledge Notes', and is also the main contributing writer for Weblogs, Inc. 'Social Software' Weblog. Judith's 'knowledge notes' Weblog is also syndicated on MyST Technology SmartChannels and Kolabora.

Adam Kalsey
Founder
Kasley Consulting Group

Adam Kalsey is an independent consultant who's been involved in Internet marketing and technology since 1995. He's worked with companies large and small to find simple answers to complex problems.

As moderator of the I-Blog discussion list Mr. Kalsey helps businesses effectively use blogs to increase communication, reduce costs, and improve their marketing.