A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly and Kathy Sierra (pre-recorded)

Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
9:45am Monday, 02/11/2008
Broadway Ballroom

Change for Publishing Conference, Kathy Sierra and Tim O’Reilly discuss innovations in the publishing landscape from an author’s perspective. They also touch on the principles of how Sierra successfully “creates passionate users” and how this energizes and increases her audience.

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Kathy Sierra

Creating Passionate Users

Kathy Sierra worked as a game programmer, interaction designer, and learning specialist (Sun Microsystems, UCLA Extension) before creating the best-selling Head First series for O’Reilly. She was the original creator of one of the largest software developer communities, javaranch.com, and the author of a Technorati Top 100 blog, “Creating Passionate Users.”

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Tim O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. O’Reilly’s Make: magazine and Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. Tim’s blog, O’Reilly Radar, “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online.

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