Speaker: Ari Davidow
April 11-14, 2007
San Francisco, California

Speakers: Biography

Ari Davidow

Director of Online Strategy
Jewish Women's Archive
138 Harvard St.
Brookline MA
02446-6424 USA
http://katrina.jwa.org

Ari Davidow is Director for Online Strategy at the Jewish Womens Archive, a virtual archive for the 21st century, based in Brookline, MA. He has been working with online community for 20 years, including almost two decades as a moderator on the pioneering online community, the WELL, and as host of other online communities, mailing lists, blogs and websites. Davidow taught online for a decade at the New School for Social Research Graduate Media Studies Department, and just recently got his own Bachelor's Degree: "I've been on the cutting edge of new media and they never offered courses in that," he says.

Ari will present From Casual History to Digital Preservation. [Paper]