Dawn Foster is a consultant, community manager, event organizer, blogger, podcaster, technology enthusiast and busi... more

Dawn Foster is a consultant, community manager, event organizer, blogger, podcaster, technology enthusiast and business professional. She provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities and has more than 13 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, market research, social media, blogging, podcasting, rss, community building, web 2.0, and open source software. She is also the community evangelist for Shizzow, a new Portland startup.

Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she blogs for GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily. She is a co-founder of Legion of Tech and is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp and Ignite Portland events. She is also the author of Companies and Communities: Participating without Being Sleazy available from http://fastwonderblog.com/ebooks

Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent