Meet Laurie Petersen, New Media Pioneer.

In honor of my friend Laurie Petersen’s visit this week to the Bay Area, I will cut and paste a smattering of her incredible Digital and New Media Pioneer credentials:

 

• Editor-in-Chief at MediaPost’s Marketing Daily
• Senior Vice President at
  Gruppo, Levey & Co.
• Executive Producer at The Deal.com
• Editorial Director at
  Barnesandnoble.com
• Supervising Producer at iVillage
• Editor-in-Chief Media Central at Cowles Business Media

Specialties:  Strategist, writer, editor, producer, researcher, manager, virtual world and community specialist. Thrive in start-up situations.

Linkedin does not do justice to her spit and spirit. I first met Laurie a zillion years ago back in the dinosaur days of that infamous incubator: The AOL Greenhouse. Laurie was deep into iVillage, which was deep into evaluating my site, The Health Zone. She boldly jumped on a plane and came out to visit The Zone and we bonded bigtime. Laurie’s like that . . . she collects interesting peeps from all over the planet and then sticks by them. She’d better stick by me this weekend at the TWTRCON Smile 140 Party — because she is a networker extraordinaire, while I am a corner-hugger.

Read Laurie’s sparky common sense commentary Oh Mother! on Minyanville.