Who are you? Defining yourself in the online world

The panel will discuss the various social networking sites that can be utilized to build your brand online, and identify advantages and pitfalls of these sites, their usage, and their relationship to one another. During the discussion, they will provide context for the growing significance of social networking for personal brands, as we discuss the paths each of us took in order to build our personal online reputations.

As well, we will go through the paths that we each took build our personal online reputations. Along with the steps that we would do differently if we were to do it over again.

In the spirit of social media, we will end the panel by opening the floor for a group conversation.

Panelists:

Jenn Lowther is an experienced internet marketer and has held several online marketing roles to date. She is currently the Director of Social Media at 6S Marketing, focusing on Social Media, Strategy, Blogging, Client Strategy, and Content Creation. Prior, she was a Social Media Strategist at Invoke and memelabs. Through these roles, she has had the great opportunity to develop her passion in working with companies to create and execute effective internet marketing strategies. She is @jennmae on twitter and has a personal blog at lowtherrinserepeat.com.

Rebecca Bollwitt has been blogging about Vancouver since 2004 on Miss604.com, and podcasting since 2005. In 2008 she was listed as one of the top "Web influencers in Vancouver" by NowPublic and the Vancouver Sun and has a weekly segment on-air with Talk 1410am, discussing the latest in the Vancouver blogosphere. She is the co-founder of sixty4media, offering social media consulting services from custom WordPress themes as well as event liveblogging, blogging tutorials, and freelance web writing. She is @miss604 on twitter.

Linda Bustos is an eCommerce Analyst for Elastic Path Software in Vancouver, BC and Chief Blogger at GetElastic.com where she writes about Internet marketing, social media and web design and usability. A member of Canadian Women in Communications, Linda has served as faculty for the Banff New Media Institute / CWC Career Accelerator Program, spoken at various unconferences including Bar, Moose and DemoCamps and un-unconferences like Shop.org and the Massive Technology Show. Linda was named one of Vancouver's Tech Women to Watch in 2008 and is @Roxyyo on Twitter.

Nadia is a strategist, project manager, and filmmaker with 9 years of experience in advertising and production in both new and traditional media and is currently the memelabs Product Manager for Invoke responsible for business development, campaign management, and content creation. She is a social media evangelists driven by the power to leverage arts, and galvanize unique communities. And she loves it.Nadia has worked in both print and traditional media, where she helped launch and run PR and business development for a local Restaurant culture magazine. She also worked as PR/Communications Director and video editor for SAWA Global, where she dev