Consultant: helping companies get real business value out of participating in online communities and social media.
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Senior Executive and Online Community Practice Manager at Olliance Group
- Chief Community Evangelist at Shizzow
- Consultant at Fast Wonder
- Board of Directors / Co-Founder at Legion of Tech
- Past
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- Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software
- Director of Community and Partner Programs at Compiere
- Manager / Strategist at Intel
- e-Business Program Principal at Timken
- Education
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- Ashland University
- Kent State University
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Dawn Foster’s Summary
Dawn Foster is the Senior Executive and Practice Manager of the Olliance Group Online Community Practice. The Online Community Practice is focused on helping companies derive business value from building and participating in online communities. Dawn has more than 13 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, social media, and RSS.
Dawn has experience and a passion for bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. Prior to joining the Olliance Group, Dawn founded Fast Wonder Consulting where she has been helping companies build successful online communities. Dawn has experience building new communities, managing existing communities, and providing consulting and advice to companies with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities. She is a co-founder and board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit chartered with organizing free events for the Portland, Oregon technology community. As part of her work with Legion of Tech, Dawn is an organizer for BarCamp Portland, Ignite Portland, and other events.
Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University. Previously, she worked at Intel, Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist. She uses a combination of technical and business expertise and education to help companies get real business value from participating in online communities. Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she blogs for GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily. She is the author of the book, Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.
Dawn Foster’s Specialties:
community management, open source software, technology, management, web 2.0, barcamp, podcasting, blogging, social media, yahoo pipes, rss
Dawn Foster’s Experience
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Senior Executive and Online Community Practice Manager
Olliance Group
(Partnership; Computer Software industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
I will be building the Olliance Group Online Community Practice focused on helping companies realize business value from building and nourishing new communities, engaging with existing communities, and utilizing social media in comprehensive community strategies.
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Chief Community Evangelist
Shizzow
(Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Shizzow is a location-based social web service that we built with the goal of helping you build quality relationships through face-to-face interaction. Shizzow provides the technology for you to notify your friends of your location, with as little effort as possible, so you can spend more time hanging out with your peeps and less time trying to coordinate bringing them together through phone, email, SMS and IM.
We are currently in private beta issuing invites only in Portland, OR, and I am responsible for all of the community interactions with the Shizzow community. We are in the pre-funding stage, so this is still a side project to my main gig of consulting for Fast Wonder. -
Consultant
Fast Wonder
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through various social media technologies including discussion forums, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and more. Consulting services include online community building, blogging strategy, RSS-based information monitoring, custom employee training sessions, and more.
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Board of Directors / Co-Founder
Legion of Tech
(Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (2 years )
Legion of Tech is a non-profit organization started by a group of people to grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events. We run Ignite Portland, BarCamp Portland, Startupalooza and more from within this organization.
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Director of Developer Relations
Jive Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for building Jive's developer community with a focus on the new Clearspace product.
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Director of Community and Partner Programs
Compiere
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — April 2007 (6 months)
As Director of Community and Partner Programs, I was the liaison between Compiere and their open source community in addition to managing relationships and programs for Compiere partners.
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Manager / Strategist
Intel
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — November 2006 (6 years 4 months)
I spent most of my career at Intel working on open source software and enabling software development tools vendors. I recently worked in Intel's Open Source Program Office and was responsible for Intel's global open source engagement strategy and planning for Linux operating system vendor enabling and marketing.
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e-Business Program Principal
Timken
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TKR; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
July 1995 — August 2000 (5 years 2 months)
Worked in a variety of roles including UNIX system administrator, software developer, market researcher, and E-Business program analyst.
Dawn Foster’s Education
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Ashland University
MBA , Executive Management , 1997 — 2000
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Kent State University
BS , Computer Science , 1989 — 1995
Additional Information
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Dawn Foster’s Interests:
communities, web 2.0, social media, blogging, podcasting, open source software, barcamp, geek culture, high tech strategy and management, anthropology, education, travel, reading, cooking vegan meals.
Dawn Foster’s Groups:
Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE), pdxgeekchix, barcampportland
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Web PDX
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