He also served as Vice Chair of both the Honolulu Planning Commission and the Honolulu Charter Commission where he authored successful Charter amendments that require islandwide curbside recycling and creating a bike- and pedestrian-friendly Honolulu.
In addition to his role with Blue Planet, Jeffrey is currently a district manager for Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Project. He has been awarded an EPA Environmental Hero Award and in 2005 the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ranked him among “10 Who Made a Difference.” Jeffrey has been quoted as a source thousands of times in Hawai‘i, national, and international news outlets. Jeffrey earned a Master’s of Science degree in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying decision theory.

Beth Blecherman

Here are 5 things to know about me…..TechMama (her nickname)  started her career in application development (yes – programming), then system auditing and her last role was Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte. Before motherhood, one of her biggest career achievements was selling security services to Microsoft by showing them some new security tricks.

She jumped off Partner track at Deloitte to jump onto the parenting track and utilized blogging and online social networking to stay involved with technology. (with husband and three boys, two of which are twins toddlers). Now she spends time being taught new superhero and sports tricks by her sons.  As a mother, she went through technology withdrawal and decided to try blogging.

She also founded MTB consulting (mother of three boys) for social media strategy consulting (currently on hold until blogging slows down!). Corporations and organizations have asked her to speak on topics ranging from how to start blogging, online social networking and how to choose the right technology for families.   She also assists Corporate clients on the technical side of using social media to reach their target market.

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Accolades and Fun Stuff to Know:

MommyTech Summit at CES 2010: Beth Blecherman is on the Board of Advisors

NIELSON: Techmamas.com was chosen as one of the Nielson Power Mom 50 influencers.

TWITTER: Thrilled as of July 2009 to have over 6,000 Twitter followers (hugs to my Twitter Followers). Was choosen BizTechDay’s 25 Influential Business Women in Bay Area to Follow on Twitter and by MomBloggerClub on the 25 Influential Moms to Follow on Twitter.

CHOOSEN AS ONE OF THE DISTINGUISHED BLOGGERS FOR EMBARK ON USS NIMITZ: Techmamas: Blogger Adventure on the USS Nimitz

CBS NEWS KATIE COURIC:  Coordinated conference call with Katie Couric and the Silicon Valley Moms Group to discuss the topic of Children and the Recession.

ALLTOP: Proud to be listed in Alltop Moms

GOOGLE: Digital Moms Panel

YAHOO: Motherboard panel, participant in Yahoo! Video Network project with Silicon Valley Moms Group. Our first video was on the Economy and the holidays.

DELL: VIP at CES09

SONYMOM: Covered the red carpet for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

HP/Vivienne Tam: Covered Fashion Week Launch of HP Mini notebook Vivienne Edition

Writing Assignments (other then the blogosphere):

soon to announce contributions to 2 books coming out next fall.. more details to come..

SCHOLASTIC: Take a Byte Out of Life

Press (summary items only):

Oct 2009 CNN Situation Room: Interviewed by CNN’s Abbi Tatton for The Situation Room story on the FTC guidelines for blogger disclosure.

March 2009 Wall Street Journal “The Juggle”: SXSW Roundup: “Moms Who Tech”

March 2009 BBC: “The rising power of geek mums“.

July 2008 Forbes.com Video Network: High-Tech Babysitting

July 2008 CBS News: SF Conference Highlights Surge in Blogging Women

May 2008 Forbes.com When Moms Packs A Gadget

April 2008 CBS News Meet The Parents (Who Blog)

Techmama is hanging to the right of Katie Couric!

Oct 2007 New York Times Blog Caucus: Women, Politics & The Internet Part II

April 2007: 3 Seconds of Fame on CNET: -  “Keeping Your Kids Safe Online“- Video on “The Real Net Threats”

Sept 2006: San Jose Metroactive – With the other Silicon Valley Mommybloggers in the article “The Hand That Blogs The Cradle“.

Speaking Engagements:

Social Media Business Council: The Challenge of Mommy Blogging

SXSW: Current panel proposed at 2009 South by Southwest: Moms Who Tech

WEB 2.0: Birds of a Feather “Moms Who Tech”

BLOGHER:BlogHer Business: Case Study – Successful Social Media Outreach

Jewish Vocational Service: Recession Proofing Your Career, Online Career Networking. Here is my post on the Online Networking for Career Development.

TechMama on Video:

LA Moms Bloggers get VIP Treatment at the Chelsea Lately Show

Radio Shack Netogether -Beth Blecherman & tech blogger friends were on a 17 foot computer screen in Times Square NYC and SF. Here is my post, here is a post from TechieDiva who was in NYC.

Video and Picture as the SonyMom’s covered the Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Red Carpet

In his present role, Neil coordinates closely with Intel’s product, clean technology, and sustainability teams in various areas including power-conserving microprocessors, smart grid and the green data center. He is a private investor and advisor to clean tech and social media startups and mentors clean tech entrepreneurs through the California Clean Tech Open business plan competition where he is also is a judge. He represents Intel Corporation with the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals where he organizes panel discussions on smart grid technology partnerships as a member of ASAP’s Clean Tech committee.

Neil holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He lives in Menlo Park, CA, with his wonderful blogging wife, Beth “Techmama” Blecherman, and their three young sons. He tweets (@neilblecherman) about clean technology and encourages his sons to write by blogging very bad poetry at www.baddadpoetry.com

Follow Neil on Twitter: @neilblecherman

He worked at Intuit for 5 years where he led product management for Quicken and launched an online brokerage. Dan also led product management at Friendster.

Before starting YourVersion, he consulted to many startups, including Box.net, YouSendIt, MoodLogic, Angie’s List, Xing, and Epocrates. Dan is a regular speaker at web and startup events such as the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo and Startonomics.

Follow Dan on Twitter: @danolsen

Leah has served on the on the advisory board of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation as their Arts and Dialogue Specialist, founded The Performance Initiative which was designed to utilize the arts for social change and produced an award winning environmental Ecospot, “I Did Noth’n”.

Previous to her city dwelling existence in the Bay Area, Lamb worked as nomadic wilderness guide which led her her deep into the wilderness of Alaska, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, and Nepal. On sunny days she can be found on her computer sitting in the middle of her garden.

Jeremiah Owyang

Before Forrester, Jeremiah’s was responsible for the strategy and development of corporate web programs at PodTech.net an online media network as the Director of Corporate Media Strategy. Jeremiah founded and lead the Community Marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems and has experience in Web Marketing, Intranets, Extranet and User Interface Design at companies such as Exodus Communications, Cable and Wireless, and World Savings (now Wachovia).

Jeremiah Owyang holds a Bachelors in Marketing from San Francisco State University.

With 18 years experience covering global business, innovation and entrepreneurship, Ms. Fannin is currently the international editor of the Hong Kong-based Asian Venture Capital Journal and Private Equity Asia. Additionally, she writes a blog for Huffington Post and is a contributor to several leading business magazines, including Inc., Fast Company, The Deal and Worth. Previously, Rebecca was international news editor at Red Herring (1999-2002), deputy editor at Advertising Age International (1996-1999) andeditor of the Pulitzer-owned International Business (1990-1995). Her work also has appeared in Wired, Asia Inc., Merrill Lynch 360 and Time Inc.’s AsiaWeek. Ms. Fannin began her career as a copy editor at the Dayton Journal Herald, as a Dow Jones intern.

Rebecca is a graduate of the Ohio University Scripps School of Journalism and a recipient of an Asian studies fellowship from the Freedom Forum. Combining her love for travel and adventure with passion for reporting and writing, Rebecca has been on assignment in many of the world’s capitals. She is a frequent moderator, panelist and presenter at industry events in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Ms. Fannin is a member of the Overseas Press Club in New York, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong and Tokyo, and the World Affairs Council in San Francisco.

Ms. Fannin grew up in the small U.S. town of Lancaster, Ohio, where her father was an Ohio University professor of history and her mother a kindergarten teacher. Today Ms. Fannin resides in New York City and San Francisco, and regularly travels to Asia.

Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @rfannin

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