Stephanie Booth
Speaking Page | Past Engagements | Video Sample | en français
Stephanie Booth studied philosophy, Indian religions and French language and literature at University of Lausanne, where she lives. She has been blogging in French and English since she came back from a year in India in 2000. Her blog Climb to the Stars was one of the first French language blogs, and is today amongst the most popular blogs in Switzerland.
After a few years working as a project manager and then a schoolteacher, Stephanie Booth is now a professional web consultant and commentator, as well as an event organizer. Over the last three years, she has consulted and given talks over Europe and the US on blogging, social media and related topics to a wide range of clients, including schools, businesses large and small (Intel, Romandie Formation), media companies (Femina, Vibrations Magazine), and various non-profits (ciao.ch, FMEL). She combines direct experience online with solid theoretical knowledge of the internet to explain its complexities, both technical and cultural.
She is a confident and lively speaker in both English and French (her native languages), and can talk on a list of pre-set topics as described on her speaking page or adapt to particular audiences and requests. Her speaking page and the links below will give you access to video material.
Standard talks:
- How Blogging Brings Dialogue to Corporate Communications: an inspirational introduction to social media and the Web 2.0 from a business communication point of view
- Teenagers and the Living Web: informational presentations for teachers, parents, or teenagers, from a no-nonsense educational perspective
- Waiting for the Babel Fish: linguistic issues on the internet, from internationalization to multilingual communities
- What is This Blogging Thing?: a general introduction to blogs and social media
Her strengths include an ability to serve as a translator of online culture for non-technical audiences, a natural and fluid presentation style, honest no-nonsense answers to complex questions, and enough technical expertise to address "geek for geeks" topics (like blogging software and localization issues, for example).
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