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DESCRIPTION:Susan Mernit: Inspired by change\n\nA Woman’s Voice lecture 
 series.\nSusan Mernit began her career as a poet & arts activist, teaching 
 children in Harlem and adults in rural Ohio and running a small press 
 magazine. Drawn to the internet before the web (Mozilla) existed, she 
 convinced Scholastic, her book & magazine publisher employer, to go 
 online—and ended up creating one of the first consumer web sites. Since 
 then, Mernit has had a career marked by both change & innovation—as an 
 online news pioneer, Netscape & AOL VP, Yahoo! Senior Director, and now 
 founder of Oakland Local, a new community news site for Oakland, and 
 co-founder of Public Media Collaborative, a volunteer group focused on 
 social media training for nonprofits & community groups.  She is also a 
 contributing editor at BlogHer, a blogger, and a volunteer group focused on 
 training nonprofits, ethnic media & community groups on using social media 
 tools. A popular trainer and speaker, Mernit works regularly with The 
 Knight Digital Media Center at USC's Annenberg School, and with The Maynard 
 Institute, and will chair the Keynote program chair for the October 2009 
 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.\nAlong the way, 
 she’s had a helluva lot of fun—and a couple of sobering failures. Come 
 talk with Susan Mernit about her perspectives on thriving on change, doing 
 what you love, and surviving failure, as well as her experience as an 
 online pioneer and troublemaker.\n\nFounded in the late 19th century to 
 promote good design practices in the Berkeley hills, the Hillside Club 
 today is a community-based membership organization that promotes art and 
 culture in the community and is completely owned and run by its 
 members.\n\nThe Hillside Club,\n2286 Cedar Street (at Arch)\nBerkeley CA 
 94709\n\n\n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/28/18623713.php
SUMMARY:Susan Mernit: Inspired by Change. A Woman's Voice
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar Street,\nBerkeley CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/28/18623713.php
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