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Author, speaker, multimedia consultant
Janine Warner's expertise in media, technology, and cross-cultural business have taken her on consulting assignments from Miami to Mexico and speaking engagements from New York to New Delhi.
Since 1996, she has authored more than a dozen books about the Internet, including her latest, Web Sites Do-It-Yoursef For Dummies and the best-selling Dreamweaver For Dummies (now in its 7th edition).
She's also the host of a series of training videos about Web design for Total Training.
"Janine Warner is one of the most effective speakers I've met. Her understanding of online media and her ability to convey the opportunities to an audience are extraordinary. Her plane hadn't even left the gate and our press contacts were already asking us to invite her back."
-- John Vance
Press Attaché, US Embassy
Santiago, Chile
An award-winning journalist, her articles and columns have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper. She is also a regular columnist for Layers Magazine.
"Thank goodness I came across your DVDs - everything is perfectly paced, well thought-out, well-designed, and your voice and personality are a pleasure to listen to."
-- Chris Cummings
Insight Film Studios
Janine has been a part-time faculty member at both the University of Miami and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. She has also developed online training programs for the Western Knight Center, a joint project of USC and UC Berkeley funded by the Knight Foundation.
Janine has extensive Internet experience working on large and small Web sites. From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design business in Northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch International, Beth’s Desserts, and many other small and medium-size businesses.
In 1998, she joined The Miami Herald as their Online Managing Editor. A year later, she was promoted to Director of New Media and managed a team of designers, programmers, journalists, and marketing staff who produced the Web sites for The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and Miami.com. She left that position to serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an international technology media company.
She served as a judge for the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet awards from 2001 to 2005. As part of that project, she helped to create an Internet literacy program for students in Central America called Operación Red (Operation Network).
She earned a degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and spent the first several years of her career in Northern California as a reporter and editor.
Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and consultant. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.
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