2010 UCET Conference Keynote Speaker
UCET is pleased to announce our 2010 Conference
Keynote: Anne Collier! Anne is Editor of NetFamilyNews.org and
founder and executive director of its parent
organization, Net Family News, Inc., She is
a writer and journalist who has worked in
the news media since 1980. With SafeKids.com’s Larry Magid, she co-directs Connect-Safely.org, a Web-based interactive forum
and information site for teens, parents,
educators, and everybody interested in the
impact of the social Web on youth and vice
versa. Connect-Safely is a project of Net Family
News, Inc. Anne and Larry co-authored
MySpace Unraveled: A Parent’s Guide to
Teen Social Networking (Peachpit Press,
2006).
Anne founded the nonprofit Net Family
News in 1999 on the premise that information
empowers parents at a time when tech
literacy has become an important part of
parenting and key to youth safety on the
fixed and mobile Web. NetFamilyNews.org
(“kid-tech news for parents”) is a blog, RSS
feed, and email newsletter with subscribers
in more than 50 countries. Anne worked
on print, radio, TV, and Web versions of the
Christian Science Monitor, served as an editor
in consumer magazines, and has written
for Microsoft’s Staysafe.org, GetNetWise.org, Children’s Technology Review, and the
National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children’s NetSmartz.org.
Anne currently serves as co-chair (with
Hemanshu Nigam of News Corp.) of the
Obama administration’s Online Safety &
Technology Working Group and on the advisory
boards of the London- and Washington-based Family Online Safety Institute,
the National Crime Prevention Council’s
Circle of Respect Initiative, and GetNetWise.org, a project of the Washington-based
Internet Education Foundation. In 2008, she
served on the Internet Safety Technical Task
Force, formed by 49 state attorneys general
and Fox Interactive/MySpace and based at
Harvard University’s Berkman Center for
Internet & Society. She also works in close
association with London-based Childnet
International.
A Massachusetts native, Anne holds B.A. and
M.A. degrees from Principia College and the
University of Chicago, respectively, and now
lives and skis with her husband and two
sons in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah.
