Upcoming Speaking Engagements:
Photo of Tara Hunt Lane Hartwell

4th Annual Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference, Phoenix, AZ November 12, 2009
National Association of Realtors Annual Conference, San Diego, CA November 13-16, 1009
Web 2.0 Expo, New York City, NY November 16-19, 2009
Advertising Week, Toronto, ON January 26, 2010
Former Speaking Engagements:
- Search Engine Strategies, Toronto, ON June 8, 2009
- WordCamp SF, San Francisco, CA May 30, 2009
- 140 | Twitter Conference, Mountain View, CA May 26-27
- WebVisions, Portland, OR May 22, 2009
- Thinking Digital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK May 13-15, 2009
- Community 2.0, San Francisco, CA May 11-13, 2009
- An Event Apart, Seattle, WA May 4–5, 2009
- The Digital Impact (PRSA), New York City, NY April 30-May 1, 2009
- Social Media Club, San Jose, CA April 21, 2009
- Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA March 31-April 3, 2009
- SXSW interactive, Austin, TX 2009 March 13-17, 2009
- Interactive Strategies 08: Secrets Exposed, Houston, TX, October 22, 2008
- SHIFT 2008, Lisbon, Portugal, October 15-17, 2008
- Online Marketing World, San Francisco, CA, October 1-3, 2008
- Social Media Marketing Summit, San Francisco, CA October 2, 2008
- Gnomedex 08, Seattle, WA, August 21-23, 2008
- Fuel Conference, London, UK, June 13, 2008
- The Seminar (no website), Scottsdale, AZ, May 31, 2008
- Thinking Digital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, May 21-22, 2008
- Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA, April 22-25, 2008 – BarCamp and Unconferences Panel
- Women Who Tech, Telesummit, March 31, 2008 – Women and Social Capital
- SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX March 7-11, 2008 – Self-replicating Awesomeness: The Marketing of No Marketing
- Customer Service is the New Marketing, San Francisco, CA, February 4, 2008 – Community as Customer Service, Customer Service as Community
- Web Directions North, Vancouver, BC, Canada, January 28-31, 2008 – day long workshop on Business and Government and Happiness, Talk on Government 2.0 – RECORDING/SLIDES HERE
- California Executive Summit, Sonoma, CA, January 24, 2008 – Government 2.0
- 2007 Algim Conference, Lake Taupo, New Zealand, November 19-21, 2007
- 2007 NIC eGovernment Leadership Summit, Workshop Leader, Portland, OR, USA, October 22nd, 2007
- NASCIO Annual Conference, Panelist, Tuscon, AZ, USA, October 1, 2007
- e.day, Keynote Speaker, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 13, 2007
- GOVIS – Innovation in ICT, Keynote Speaker/Workshop Presenter, Wellington, New Zealand, May 8-11, 2007
- Innotech, co-Presenter, Portland, OR, April 25-26, 2007
- Web2Open, Co-Organizer/Presenter/etc. (at the Web 2.0 Expo), San Francisco, CA, April 17-18, 2007
- ETech, Workshop Presenter, San Diego, CA, March 26-29, 2007
- SXSW, Panelist, Austin, TX, 2006, 2007
- Community 2.0, Workshop Presenter, Las Vegas, NV, March 12-14, 2007
- Future of Web Apps, Presenter & Workshop, London, UK, February 20-22, 2007
- CommunityNext, Presenter, Palo Alto, CA, February 9-10, 2007
- Blog Business Summit, Panelist, Seattle, WA, 2006
- Bay CHI, Presenter, Palo Alto, CA, 2006
- Attention Trust Meetup, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, 2006
- Gnomedex, Presenter, Seattle, WA, 2006
- SuperNova, Workshop Moderator, San Francisco, CA, 2006
- Mesh Conference, Keynote Speaker, Toronto, ON, 2006
- Alliance of Women in Technology, Panelist, Menlo Park, CA, 2006
- Net2 Conference, Panelist & Immoderator, Mountain View, CA, 2006
- Net Tuesday, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, 2006
- Several BarCamps, Presenter or Discussion Leader, All over the world, 2006-2008
Speaking Subjects
- Blogging
- Business Strategy
- Brands
- Communication
- Community Marketing
- Community
- Customers
- DIY – Do-It-Yourself Media
- Entrepreneurship
- Government 2.0
- Leadership
- Marketing & Technology
- Marketing Research
- Marketing
- Networks
- Niche Markets
- Online Marketing
- Product Design
- Relationships
- Sociable Media
- Social Media
- Social Networks
- Technology & Society
- Web 2.0
- Women in Business
- Word of Mouth Marketing
Tara has spoken at over 50 conferences, classes and workshops over the past 4 years and constantly gets demanded back by her audiences. She is utterly professional and will cater her presentation to your audience. For inquiries, please contact her here.
Speaking Requests:
Contact Leigh Bureau.
Recent Sample Presentations:
The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and Winning with Online Communities (Tara Hunt) from Steffan Antonas on Vimeo.
Speaker Photos
Available upon request.







