William Baker

Email William BakerWilliam Baker is a freelance writer living in Cambridge, MA. His work has appeared in Popular Science, the Boston Globe Magazine, the New York Daily News, Boston Magazine, The Weekly Dig and a bunch of other places (including Field & Stream, though he doesn't hunt and can't really fish). He is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe, where he writes the weekly column, "Meeting the Minds." He holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is at work on his first book.

Brian Haverty

Email Brian HavertyBrian Haverty is Editorial Director for CNET Networks Australia and is responsible for the company\'s CNET.com.au, ZDNet Australia, GameSpot AU and Builder AU online titles. Brian has been editing and writing on an extensive range of technology and business subjects for 12 years in Australia but the areas he specialises in are digital publishing and production systems. You can e-mail him at brian.haverty@cnet.com.au.

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Rick Broida

Email Rick BroidaA technology writer for more than 15 years, Rick Broida is a regular contributor to CNET, Popular Science, Wired and other publications. He's also the author of numerous books, including How to Do Everything with Your Zune. Email Rick your Business Hacks suggestions

When he's not chained to his keyboard, he's usually shooting hoops or watching quality television.

CC Holland

Email CC HollandCC Holland is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a number of national magazines. Online, she was a columnist for AnchorDesk.com and writes regularly for Law.com and BNET. On the other side of the journalism desk, she's been a managing editor for ZDNet, CNet, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she earned an APTRA Best News Web Site award.

Campbell Fisher

Email Campbell FisherCampbell Fisher is a Solicitor and Managing Partner of Fisher Cartwright Berriman and an Accredited Specialist in Employment and Industrial Law.

Lisa Everitt

Email Lisa EverittA Denver-based business writer, Lisa Everitt is a veteran of daily and weekly newspapers and trade magazines, including The Natural Foods Merchandiser, Rocky Mountain News, Inter@ctive Week, San Francisco Business Times, and the Peninsula Times Tribune.

Michael Fitzgerald

Email Michael FitzgeraldMichael Fitzgerald writes about innovation and other big ideas in business for publications like the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc. and CIO. He’s worked as a writer or editor at Red Herring, ZDNet, TechTV and Computerworld, and has received numerous awards as a writer and editor. Most recently, his piece on the hacker collective the l0pht won the 2008 award for best trade piece from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He was also a 2007 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion.

Robert Gerrish

Email Robert GerrishRobert Gerrish is a coach, author and professional speaker and the founder of Flying Solo (www.flyingsolo.com.au), the Australian online community for solo business owners.

David Goldenberg

Email David GoldenbergDavid lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Gelf Magazine. He also freelances for several magazines including Wired and Business 2.0. He's always on the lookout for new ideas about how to make life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. Please feel free to send him your ideas for tips, tricks and other useful stuff.

Jon Greer

Email Jon GreerJon Greer has been analyzing media and PR for more than 25 years. He's been a big-city journalist and a top agency PR executive and counseled scores of clients and PR pros on how to work with the media. Jon has been a featured speaker for many years at the Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit, and served as Bulldog's Editorial Director for their PR University series of weekly how-to audio conferences.

Currently Jon provides spokesperson training and coaching to executives and PR professionals. His programs are designed to help corporate communicators feel comfortable and confident in their communications with any audience - whether it's the traditional media, bloggers, podcasters or in front of live audiences. Learn more about Jon's training programs at The Media Bridge.

David P. Hamilton

Email David P. HamiltonDavid P. Hamilton, a 14-year veteran of the Wall Street Journal, is a freelance business and medical writer in San Francisco. He most recently founded the LifeScience section of VentureBeat, a news site for innovation and venture business. Previously, David covered biotechnology, the Internet, and computing and served as a Tokyo foreign correspondent for the Journal. He is a two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club award and spent several years as a reporter at Science magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington, D.C.

David P. Hamilton

Email David P. HamiltonDavid P. Hamilton is a 14-year veteran of the Wall Street Journal, is a freelance business and medical writer in San Francisco. He most recently founded the LifeScience section of VentureBeat, a news site for innovation and venture business. Previously, David covered biotechnology, the Internet, and computing and served as a Tokyo foreign correspondent for the Journal. He is a two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club award and spent several years as a reporter at Science magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington, D.C.

Jim Henry

Email Jim HenryBased in the New York metro region, Jim Henry is a veteran reporter with more than 20 years experience covering the auto industry for publications such as Automotive News. He was also department manager, corporate strategy and market research, for Mercedes-Benz USA, the German automaker's U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary. Jim is a board member and past president of the International Motor Press Association.

Jake Swearingen

Email Jake SwearingenA reporter for BNET, Jake Swearingen has written for Wired and Business 2.0, covering everything from locative technology to high-definition online video. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he worked for a non-profit in Washington DC before making the jump out to San Francisco and getting into journalism.

Geoffrey James

Email Geoffrey JamesGeoffrey James has sold and written hundreds of features, articles and columns for national publications including Wired, Men's Health, Business 2.0, SellingPower, Brand World, Computer Gaming World, CIO, The New York Times and (of course) BNET. He is the author of seven books, including Business Wisdom of the Electronic Elite (translated into seven languages and selected by four book clubs), and The Tao of Programming (widely quoted on the Web as a "canonical book of computer humor".) He was also co-host of Funny Business, a program on New England's largest all-talk radio station and has given seminars and keynotes at numerous corporations, including Rackspace, Gartner, Lucent and Houston Industries. Geoffrey attributes his success to the uncommon realization that freelancing is "50 percent sales and 50 percent delivery." When writing about Sales, he draws on his prior experience marketing and selling multi-million dollar computer systems, his daily experience selling his own services, and the fact that every month he's personally being coached, one-on-one, by the world's top sales trainers.

Jennifer Goddard

Email Jennifer GoddardJennifer Goddard is the director of the Buzan Centre in Australia and New Zealand and co-founder of Mindwerx International. In 'Head First Innovation', Jennifer Goddard looks at ways managers, innovation champions and entrepreneurs can open their minds to new ideas and ways of doing things that will give them the competitive advantage.

Jenna Miller

Email Jenna MillerJenna Miller has more than eight years experience editing the work of others, and now she gets to see things from the other side of the fence. She has a degree in journalism and a passion for understanding business that led her to start work on her MBA in 2007.

Jessica Stillman

Email Jessica StillmanJessica is an alumnus of the BNET editorial intern program, which taught her everything she knows about blogging. She now lives in London where she works as a freelance writer with interests in green business and tech, management and marketing.

Debbie Mayo-Smith

Email Debbie Mayo-SmithDebbie Mayo-Smith is a best-selling author and international motivational speaker. You can find out more about her at www.101quicktips.com.

Dan Mitchell

Email Dan MitchellDan Mitchell has spent the past 20 years writing and editing for newspapers, magazines, and Web publications. Currently, he writes the What's Online column for the Saturday business section of the New York Times. He has also written for the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, National Public Radio, Business 2.0, and Wired.

Peter Galuszka

Email Peter GaluszkaPeter Galuszka is a Virginia-based journalist with more than three decades of experience. He spent 15 years at BusinessWeek where he was twice Moscow Bureau Chief and International News Editor in New York. He has also worked at other national and regional business magazines and at newspapers. Now a Washington specialist, Galuszka has had his work published in Corporate Board Member, Fortune Small Business, Directorship, forbes.com, Chief Executive, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Chartered Financial Analyst magazine and other publications, websites and blogs.

Peter Galuszka

Email Peter GaluszkaPeter Galuszka is a Virginia-based journalist with more than three decades of experience. He spent 15 years at BusinessWeek where he was twice Moscow Bureau Chief and International News Editor in New York. He has also worked at other national and regional business magazines and at newspapers. Now a Washington specialist, Galuszka has had his work published in Corporate Board Member, Fortune Small Business, Directorship, forbes.com, Chief Executive, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Chartered Financial Analyst magazine and other publications, websites and blogs.

David Phillips

Email David PhillipsDavid Phillips has more than 25 years' experience on Wall Street, first as a financial consultant and then as an equity analyst for several investment banking firms. He sifts through SEC filings for his blog The 10Q Detective, looking for financial statement soft spots, such as depreciation policies, warranty reserves and restructuring charges. He has been widely quoted in outlets such as BusinessWeek, The International Herald Tribune, Investor's Business Daily, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, and The Wall Street Journal.

Travis Van

Email Travis VanTravis Van came to the Bay Area in the late 90's, armed only with a journalism degree and the desire for an honest wage. Instead he discovered that entry level reporting wages were poorly aligned with his material demands, so he joined the seedy underworld of tech PR, where he's been lurking for the past eight years. Van has worked on both the agency side and in-house for enterprise software, networking and infrastructure vendors. He was formerly a PR manager for the COMDEX and N+I events. While at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he wrote media advisories on new legislation for the Colorado State Senate.

Sean Silverthorne

Email Sean SilverthorneSean Silverthorne is the editor of HBS Working Knowledge, which provides a first look at the research and ideas of Harvard Business School faculty. Working Knowledge, which won a Webby award in 2007, currently records 4 million unique visitors a year. He has been with HBS since 2001.

Silverthorne has 28 years experience in print and online journalism. Before arriving at HBS, he was a senior editor at CNet and Executive Editor of ZDNet News. While at At Ziff-Davis, Silverthorne also worked on the daily technology TV show The Site, and was a senior editor at PC Week Inside, which chronicled the business of the technology industry. He has held several reporting and editing roles on a variety of newspapers, and was Investor Business Daily's first journalist based in Silicon Valley.

Brett Snyder

Email Brett SnyderAfter working in various pricing, sales, and marketing functions for airlines including America West and United, Brett Snyder left to join PriceGrabber.com where he remains today as the Director of New Products. Brett writes the award-winning consumer travel blog, The Cranky Flier, and holds an MBA from Stanford.

Jessica Stillman

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Andrew Hines

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Jeff Davis

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Joseph De Avila

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Lori Deschene

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Stephen Howard-Sarin

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Jake Swearingen

Email Jake SwearingenA reporter for BNET, Jake Swearingen has written for Wired and Business 2.0, covering everything from locative technology to high-definition online video. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he worked for a non-profit in Washington D.C. before making the jump out to San Francisco and getting into journalism.

David Weir

Email David WeirDavid Weir is a veteran journalist who has worked at Rolling Stone, California, Mother Jones, Business 2.0, SunDance, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, MyWire, 7x7, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, which he cofounded in 1977. He's also been a content executive at KQED, Wired Digital, Salon.com, and Excite@Home. David has published hundreds of articles and three books,including "Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets Its Story," and has been teaching journalism for more than 20 years at U.C. Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and Stanford.