Director of Production at Crowd Fusion, Inc.
Ithaca, New York Area
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- Director of Production at Crowd Fusion
- Past
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- Sr. Programming Manager, Joystiq at AOL
- Producer at Weblogs, Inc. @ AOL
- Owner at Live Mind Consulting
- Editor-in-chief at The Social Software Weblog
- Senior Editor at Engadget.com
- Education
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- Smith College
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Barb Dybwad’s Summary
Barb is the Director of Production at Crowd Fusion, a new web publishing company solving the pain points of publishers at scale, where she has a hand in editorial direction and brand building as well as database and platform development. She is also the co-Editor of Obsessable.com, the first Crowd Fusion site, covering personal technology for gadget enthusiasts and non-experts alike.
Formerly, Barb was the Producer of Engadget and Joystiq networks at Weblogs, Inc., an AOL company. She founded the popular World of Warcraft blog WoW Insider, MMO destination Massively.com, and the PC news and downloads site BigDownload.com. She is also the former Editor-in-chief of the Social Software Weblog, Senior Editor of Engadget, and has spoken and written on multiple topics in the fields of social media, technology, gaming and virtual worlds.
tags: social media nerd, blogger, gamer, musician, incorrigible generalist and information enthusiast
Barb Dybwad’s Specialties:
social software, social media, gaming, technology, web 2.0, participatory culture, blogging, wikis, mobile technologies, digital media, user-centric technologies, virtual worlds
Barb Dybwad’s Experience
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Director of Production
Crowd Fusion
(Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (4 months)
Crowd Fusion is a web publishing company focused on rapid-publishing verticals, collaborative databases and communities.
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Sr. Programming Manager, Joystiq
AOL
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
October 2005 — September 2008 (3 years)
Producer for the Joystiq blog network. Launched spinoff properties to create the Fanboy network, including Massively, WoW Insider, Xbox 360 Fanboy, PS3 Fanboy, PSP Fanboy, DS Fanboy, Nintendo Wii Fanboy, and Big Download. Manage a distributed team of 120+ bloggers located throughout the world in a fast-paced 24-hour a day publishing cycle of video game news and features.
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Producer
Weblogs, Inc. @ AOL
(Internet industry)
October 2005 — September 2008 (3 years)
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Owner
Live Mind Consulting
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2006 (5 years)
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Editor-in-chief
The Social Software Weblog
(Internet industry)
May 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 2 months)
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Senior Editor
Engadget.com
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
March 2005 — November 2005 (9 months)
Barb Dybwad’s Education
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Smith College
BA, Biochemistry, August 1994 — May 1998
- Activities and Societies:
- A cappella (Smiffenpoofs), rugby, Habitat for Humanity
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Barb Dybwad’s Interests:
drumming, music production, web development, travel, coffee, user-created content, fun, trees, Flickr, gadgets, people, quantum physics -- you know, stuff.
Barb Dybwad’s Groups:
WITI
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BlogHer
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