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Richard MacManus is the Founder and Editor of ReadWriteWeb. He is from Wellington New Zealand. Prior to RWW Richard did research, analysis and product development work for companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Richard co-founded the Web 2.0 Workgroup and from September 2005 - December 2006 he started and ran the Web 2.0 Explorer blog at ZDNet.

Richard was profiled by The Dominion Post in July 2007 and The NZ Herald in February 2007. In August 2009 Richard was interviewed by Business Blogs. You can contact him at editor@readwriteweb.com. NOTE: Story ideas and product pitches should be emailed to tips@readwriteweb.com. This address reaches the editor and the main writers of ReadWriteWeb.

Marshall Kirkpatrick is Vice President of Content Development at ReadWriteWeb, and also the Lead Writer. He hails from Portland, Oregon, USA. Prior to joining RWW in Sept 2007, Marshall was Director of Content at SplashCast Media. During 2006 he was Lead Blogger at TechCrunch. You can contact Marshall at marshall@readwriteweb.com.

Bernard Lunn is Chief Operating Officer at ReadWriteWeb, based in New York. He has also been part of the writing team since July 2007. Prior to becoming ReadWriteWeb's COO, Bernard was a software/media entrepreneur who co-founded two companies called IQ Resource and iYogi. You can reach Bernard Lunn at bernard@readwriteweb.com.

Sarah Perez is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb, joining the team in January 2008. Sarah is from sunny Tampa, Florida where she had worked as an I.T. Professional for many years. You can contact Sarah at sarah@readwriteweb.com.

Frederic Lardinois is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb, joining the team in June 2008. He lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. You can contact Frederic at frederic@readwriteweb.com.

Jolie O'Dell is ReadWriteWeb's Community Manager and a daily writer. In the past, O'Dell has worked on newspapers, on magazines, for book publishers, for serial entrepreneurs, on startup teams, at advertising and marketing agencies, and for enterprise blogs and websites. O'Dell has a B.A. in Media Studies from Shenandoah University. You can contact Jolie at jolie@readwriteweb.com.

Dana Oshiro is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. She is a Canadian blogger, PR pro and start up strategist based in San Francisco. You can contact Dana at dana@readwriteweb.com.

Alex Williams is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. He lives in Portland, Or. where he works as a community management consultant. You can reach Alex at alexw@readwriteweb.com.

Andrew Lobo is a regular editor on ReadWriteWeb. A big part of his work involves improving the quality of writing, bringing a consistent style to the contributed content, and fixing HTML formatting. Andrew is the founder of Edit Owl, an editing service for online news and blogs. You can contact Andrew at andrew@readwriteweb.com.

Elyssa Pallai is the Marketing and Experience Manager at ReadWriteWeb. Elyssa is a web strategist with useful experience in effective, cost-saving website operations, strategy, design, technology, media, online product development and search. Elyssa has been working on the web since 1997 in the USA, UK and New Zealand. You can contact Elyssa at elyssa@readwriteweb.com.

Alex Iskold is a Feature Writer for ReadWriteWeb. He has been part of the core writing team since August 2006. He is also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdaptiveBlue, a smart browsing and personalization company. You can contact Alex at alex@readwriteweb.com.

Sean Ammirati is host of ReadWriteTalk, a podcasting show that reveals "The People Behind The Web". He also writes for ReadWriteWeb, often covering Web Tech events for us. You can contact Sean at sean@readwritetalk.com.