[a few years out of date, needs updating...]
Academia
Jeffrey Boase, PhD Studnet, Sociology, University of Toronto
Amy Bruckman, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Paul Dourish, Associate Professor of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
Jason Ellis, Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Lilia Efimova, Graduate Student, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
Andrew Fiore, PhD Student, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
Danyel Fisher, Researcher, Community Technologies, Microsoft Research
Ben Gross, PhD Student, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Grudin, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Henri ter Hofte, Researcher, Telematica Instituut
Karrie Karahalios, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign
Joseph Konstan, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Nalini Kotamraju, PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley and User Researcher, Software eXperience Design, Sun Microsystems, Inc
Robert Kraut, Professor, HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
David McDonald, Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Washington
Roy Pargas, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Clemson University
Eric Paulos, Research Scientist, Intel Research Berkeley
Jenny Preece, Dean of the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Paul Resnick, Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Jyri Engeström, PhD student, Department of Organization, Work and Technology in the Management School at Lancaster University, UK
Warren Sack, Assistant Professor, Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Silver, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Washington
Wes Shumar, Professor of Anthropology, Drexel University
Doug Schuler, Doug Schuler, former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and a founding member of the Seattle Community Network (SCN)
Julita Vassileva, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
James Witte, Associate Professor, Sociology, Clemson University
Industry
Kyle Brinkman, Product Manager and co-founder, MySpace
JJ Cadiz, Program Manager, Real-Time Collaboration, Microsoft
Ward Cunningham, Architect, PAG, Microsoft
Randall Farmer, Community Strategic Analyst, Yahoo
Shelly Farnham, Researcher Social Media, Yahoo
Steven Greenberg, Principal Strategist for the Web Audience group at AOL
JJ Jacobi, Consultant for Social Networking companies, formerly at Amazon creating the social networking, personalization, and shopping metric software
Anne Kirah, Senior Design Anthropologist, Microsoft
Dare Obasanjo, Program Manager, Communication Services Platform, Microsoft
Ray Ozzie, CTO at Microsoft, formerly founder of Groove Networks and Iris Associates
Industry Research Labs
Ken Anderson, Group Manager, People and Practices Research, Intel
Genevieve Bell, Anthropologist, People and Practices Research, Intel
danah boyd, Researcher, Microsoft Research
A.J. Brush, Researcher, Community Technologies, Microsoft Research
Lili Cheng, Group Manager, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Elizabeth Churchill, Research Scientist, Xerox Parc
Scott Counts, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Wendy Kellogg, Group Manager, Social Computing Research IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Matt MacLaurin, Program Manager, Social Computing Group
Joseph McCarthy, Connector in Chief, Interrelativity, Inc.
David Millen, Group Manager, Collaborative User Experience, IBM
Narasimhan Nitya, Researcher, Pervasive Platforms and Architectures Lab, Motorola
Nancy White, Founder, Full Circle Associates
Fernanda Viégas, PhD Candidate, Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab
Igor Perisic, Chief Scientist, Entopia
Marc Smith, Sociologist
Pundits/Influentials
Brady Forrest, Program Manager, Search, Microsoft
Elizabeth Lawley, Professor, Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
Steven Levy
Howard Rheingold, Author of Smart Mobs, The Virtual Community, Tools for Thought
Robert Scoble, Technical Evangelist, Platform Strategy, Microsoft
Linda Stone, ex-Microsoft Vice President & Director of Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft Research
David Weinberger, Writer
Startups
Craig Callé, Chief Executive Officer, COMMON Network, Inc.
Rael Dornfest, Chief Technology Officer, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Sean Kelly, Research Software Development Engineer, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Kevin Marks, Principal Engineer, Technorati
Korby Parnell, Program Manager, Microsoft’s Developer Division
Mitch Ratcliffe, Founder, Persuadio LLC and MyDensity.com, former Chief Content Officer, ON24 and currently, President of Internet/Media Strategies Inc. and Co-founder of Creative Media Partners
Ian Smith
John Smith, Principal, Learning Alliances, Community steward, CPsquare
