Saturday, August 29, 2009

Interview with Manny Hernandez (Author of Ning for Dummies) on Ning and Niche Social Networking

A Conversations.net interview on the impact of the Internet on culture and society.

Date:
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Time:
5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, and the author of Ning for Dummies.

Manny is also the founder of two Ning networks: TuDiabetes.com in English and EsTuDiabetes.com in Spanish. In April 2008 he helped start the Diabetes Hands Foundation, a nonprofit with the goal of having no people with diabetes feel alone and people without diabetes learning more about what it's like to live with diabetes. Since September 2007, he started writing a monthly column called "Hola Diabetes" for dLife in English and Spanish, aimed at the Latino community. Between May 2008 and March 2009, he wrote the column "Diabetes Hacker" in MyDiabetesCentral.com.

Manny comes from Venezuela. He first went to school there and then went to Cornell University (in New York state), where he obtained my M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering. Still he has found his true professional love to lie in the web space, so he eventually became a Web Product Manager. Since January 2008, he has lived with my family in the Bay Area, California.

He Tweets at askmanny.

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