David LaFontaine has more than 20 years experience as a journalist, editor, and multimedia producer working on a variety of projects in film, television, print, radio, and the Internet.

He is a consultant for Innovation, an international multimedia consulting group, and a freelance writer who specializes in media and technology for several blogs, including LA Voice and Hard News Inc. He has also produced several case studies for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA.org) and the Online Journalism Review (OJR.org).

His foray into the “New Media” began in 1998, when he co-founded the Single Parent Magazine. He also worked as Managing Editor for Filmson.com, a film and video Web site that helped shape the evolution of streaming media.  

Working with cutting-edge Hollywood filmmakers helped David recognize the emerging power of online multimedia and led to him pick up a videocamera to direct, produce and shoot footage during a 2-year investigative project for ABC’s PrimeTime.  Over the past several years, he has studied and experimented with the best methods of combining audio, video, still photos, and plain old text to capture and retain modern readers.

In the early 90s, David covered politics and entertainment in Los Angeles, writing for a variety of publications, including Star Magazine, News of the World, Daily People, Oggi, Voici, Bild Zeitung, Hello, New Idea, and Women's Weekly. That experience led him to write a tell-all book called The Poison Pen, which was published by Dove Books in 1996.

Prior to that, David was the managing editor of the Caracas Daily Journal and then freelanced stories from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, El Salvador and Guatemala. He speaks fluent Spanish and worked as an editor and reporter in Latin America for nearly three years.  David won a Pulliam Fellowship that helped him start his career at the Arizona Republic in 1987.

David’s interest in online communications dates back to the early days of Prodigy and 2400 baud modems.

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Janine's expertise in media, technology, and cross-cultural business has taken her on consulting assignments from Miami to Mexico and speaking engagements from New York to New Delhi.

Since 1996, she has authored more than a dozen books about the Internet, including her latest, Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, the best-selling Dreamweaver For Dummies (now in its 7th edition), and the Digital Family Album series.

She's also the host of a series of training videos about Web design for Total  Training, including programs on Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web.   

An award-winning journalist, her articles and columns have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper. She is also a regular columnist for Layers Magazine.

Janine has been a part-time faculty member at both the University of Miami and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. She has also developed online training programs for the Western Knight Center, a joint project of USC and UC Berkeley funded by the Knight Foundation.

Janine has extensive Internet experience working on large and small Web sites. From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design business in Northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch International, Beth’s Desserts, and many other small and medium-size businesses.

In 1998, she joined The Miami Herald as their Online Managing Editor. A year later, she was promoted to Director of New Media and managed a team of designers, programmers, journalists, and marketing staff who produced the Web sites for The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and Miami.com. She left that position to serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an international technology media company.

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David Mitchell is editor and publisher emeritus of The Point Reyes Light newspaper. In 1979, The Light won the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for an exposé largely written by him of the increasingly violent Synanon cult.

Mitchell retired in November 2005 after 35 years of newspapering, 27 of those at The Light. During his newspaper career, he also worked for the old San Francisco Examiner, Sonora’s Daily Union Democrat in the Sierra Nevada, and Council Bluff’s daily newspaper, The Nonpareil. In addition, he edited the weekly Sebastopol (California) Times.

Mitchell holds a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University. He is 64 and lives in Point Reyes Station on the rural coast north of San Francisc

Davi Cheng is a graphic designer and digital artist. She has worked as a marketing graphic designer for Yahoo Inc., nonprofit organizations, Synagogues, and Educational, Research and Development agencies. Her experience includes creating customized logos, marketing and advertising materials, digital graphics, and a public art installation—a 12-pane stained glass window. Davi lives in Los Angeles with Bracha, her college sweetheart of 28 years.

Frank Vera is a programmer and database developer whose work includes serving as the Director of Technology for CNET Latin America. He is proficient in C#, Java, PHP, and ASP.NET and has worked on a variety of dynamic Web site projects since 1998.

Malinda McCain is an experienced editor whose projects have included books, magazine articles, course materials, and Web sites (working around HTML code as needed). She specializes in communication and marketing, academics, fiction, and computer software manuals and books.

Grecia Levy graduated from the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino with a degree in Literary Translation. For almost ten years, she worked exclusively in the translating, subtitling and dubbing of films, thus obtaining mastery of the everyday languages and argots of an array of places and social groups. She has also created the English version of prestigious Argentine films and commercials.

After having lived in London for several years, she broadened her field of expertise and worked widely in marketing, education, the food industry, IT, art, architecture, urbanism, the media and tourism. Her published translations include El Manual del Niño Peronista (The Textbook of the Peronist Child) by Daniel Santoro, which was awarded Art Book of the Year by AACA/AICA.