Early in NetSquared's life, a group of talented people agreed to be listed publicly as Advocates of the project and to serve as a sounding board for us going forward. As the project evolved, many more people joined the effort; you will find their names listed here, in the ranks of the Conference Presenters and volunteers, and among our sponsors. So the division between our Advocates and everyone else tended to disappear. But we want to take this opportunity to recognize the group that was there first for us. Thanks!

*Indicates NetSquared Advocates are also NetSquared Sponsors and/or confirmed Conference Presenters.

Innovators, Futurists, Media, and Sui Generis

• Lucy Bernholz, BluePrint R&D   
• Andrew Blau, Global Business Network   
• Denise Caruso, Hybrid Vigor Institute   
• Michael Christman, Opts Ideas 
• Karen Coppock*, Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University
• Stuart Gannes*, Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University   
• Moira Gunn*, Tech Nation 
• Alan Kay, Computerist 
• Drazen Pantic*, Location One 
• Jonathan Peizer*, Internaut Consulting
• Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Global Knowledge Partnership
• Howard Rheingold*, Author   
• Michael Rogers*, Author 
• Paul Saffo*, Long-range Forecaster 

Business - The Social Web

• Bart Decrem, Flock
• John Girard, Clickability 
• Scott Heiferman*, Meetup  
• Tim Manners, Reveries 
• Chris Messina*, Independent Consultant
• Jon Phillips*, Creative Commons
• Michael Silberman*, Echo Ditto
• Myles Weissleder*, Meetup   

Business - Core Technologies, Venture Capital and Major Companies

• Michael Brown*, Partech International  
• Robert Frank, The Gap Corporation  
• Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo!  
• Dawn James*, BEA Systems, Inc. 
• Alex Kent, Cornish & Carey
• Anthony Lee, Altos Ventures
• Daniel T. Ling*, Microsoft Research
• Emily Melton, Draper Fisher Jurvetson   
• Jane Meseck*, Microsoft Corporation
• Charles Moore*, Acendi Corporation
• H. Camilla Nelson*, Hewlett-Packard
• Warren Packard, Draper Fisher Jurvetson 
• Mike Quinn*, Cisco Corporation
• Juliette Sultan*, Business Objects, Inc.

Nonprofits and NGOs

• Steve Bergman, Goodwill International  
• David Collin*, American Cancer Society  
• Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures
• Randal Moss*, American Cancer Society
• Shawn Reifsteck*, Hands On Network 
• Jesse Salinas*, Hands On Network

Public Interest Technology and Technology Support

• Joe Baker*, NTEN  
• David Barnard*, SANGONeT
• Chris Brooks, University of San Francisco 
• Scott Case*, Network for Good
• Barbara Chang, NPower New York
• Ami Dar*, Idealist.org
• Deborah Dinkelacker, VolunteerMatch
• Jim Fruchterman*, Benetech.org
• David Geilhufe*, Social Source Foundation
• Angela Glover Blackwell*, PolicyLink  
• Allen Gunn*, Aspiration
• Doug Jacquier, Community Information Strategies Australia Inc.
• Joe Jurczyk*, Grassroots.org
• Martin Kearns*, Green Media Toolshed
• Wendy Lazarus, Children’s Partnership
• Laura Merling, SDForum
• Tim Mills-Groninger, IT Resource Center  
• Randal Pinkett, BCT Partners
• Zack Rosen*, CivicSpace Labs
• Kavita Singh, CTCnet
• Kim Spencer, LinkTV
• Bill Strathmann*, Network for Good
• Deborah Strauss, IT Resource Center 
• Mark Surman, Telecentre
• Ginger Thomson*, Youthnoise

Philanthropy

• Michael Bailin  
• China Brotsky, Tides Foundation
• Cynthia Gibson
• Tessie Guillermo*, Community Technology Foundation of California
• Richard Matgen*, Peninsula Community Foundation
• Clara Miller*, Nonprofit Finance Fund
• Mario Morino, Morino Institute
• Tom Reis*, W.K. Kellogg Foundation 
• Edward Skloot*, Surdna Foundation  
• Vince Stehle*, Surdna Foundation
• George Trone, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Tim Wu*, Community Technology Foundation of California
• Teri Yeager, William Randolph Hearst Foundation