Kathy Sierra

Kathy Sierra
Author, Blogger, 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.”

Sessions

9:45am Monday, 02/11/2008
A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly and Kathy Sierra (pre-recorded)
Keynote Broadway Ballroom
Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
In this one-on-one interview, pre-recorded exclusively for the 2008 O'Reilly Tools of 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. Read more.

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