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2008 SSP 30th Annual Meeting, Westin Copley, Boston, MA

Concurrent 3C: Copyright 2.0: The Agony and the Ecstasy

Speakers

Karen Christensen
Karen Christensen is a publisher and author specializing in China, social networking, and sustainability who was senior editor of the award-winning four-volume Encyclopedia of Community (Sage 2004) and the featured CEO blogger at the first Web 2.0 conference to be held in China in November 2007.

She speaks frequently about ways to make social networking part of publishing projects and is especially focused on international collaborations. She emphasizes the importance of the Chinese concept guanxi, and is active in building her company’s networks (and guanxi) in China. She is also publisher and acting editor of the monthly Guanxi: The China Letter.

She’s spoken about blogging, wikis, and online community building at the Global Information Summit, the Charleston Conference, Buying & Selling E-Content, and Digital Now, and she’ll chair the first Green Data Centres conference in London in July.

Karen is also the author of a number of popular environmental books, including The Armchair Environmentalist (new edition July 2008), translated into French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.

She is CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, which she cofounded in 1998. Karen is a member of the board of the Content Division of the Software & Information Industry Association. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Society for New Communications Research and was recently made a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Greg Merkle
As Vice President and Creative Director at Dow Jones, Greg Merkle is responsible for overseeing the user experience design of the Content Technology Solutions within the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. With more than 20 years experience in the electronic publishing and information industry, Mr. Merkle Greg has both the big picture vision of
where and how information is being used as well as the implementation expertise to bring goal and task oriented products and solutions to market.
Ammy Vogtlander
Ammy Vogtlander recently founded BlueInsights, an internet venture and consulting practice. BlueInsights focuses on new initiatives that aim to improve customer interaction through social communities and other emerging web concepts and technologies.

Previously, Ammy worked as Director of Search within Elsevier’s corporate strategy group, where she was responsible for identifying new opportunities to maximise the dissemination of Elsevier’s content, building
strong relationships with search partners as well as for developing and executing Elsevier’s search plans.

Before, Ammy was Head of Product for Scirus, Elsevier’s free Web search engine.

Before joining Elsevier, Ammy worked as a senior strategy consultant at a Dutch consulting firm, NeXtrategy – Boer & Croon, where she assisted clients in developing and executing Internet strategies. Ammy started her career at AMS, an American IT consultancy. Ammy
holds a MSc in Physics from the University of Groningen.