Dave Rogers is Managing Editor for Yahoo! Kids. During his Web and marketing career, he has worked with some of the world's most fun brands, including Mattel, Disney, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream and Sunkist. Dave has also worked as a corporate trainer, instructional designer and hand model—and looks amazingly like his Yahoo! avatar.
Larry is known as both a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid contributes to CBS News, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and other media outlets. He served for 18 years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, CNN.COM and numerous other newspapers and websites throughout the world.
President and editor of NetFamilyNews, Anne is a writer and journalist who has worked in the news media since 1980. With SafeKids.com's Larry Magid, she is co-director of ConnectSafely.org, a Web-based interactive forum and information site for teens, parents, educators, and everybody interested in the impact of "Web 2.0" on kids, its most avid users. She and Larry are also co-authors of MySpace Unraveled: A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking.
Anne founded the nonprofit NetFamilyNews.org in 1999, with the idea that information is empowering for parents in this time when tech literacy has become an essential part of parenting. Anne worked on print, radio, TV, and Web versions of the Christian Science Monitor, served as an editor in consumer magazines, and writes a weekly kid-tech news column for Staysafe.org. She serves on the Advisory Council of the London- and Washington-based Family Online Safety Institute and the Advisory Board of GetNetWise.org in Washington
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Adam writes about kids' technology, entertainment and culture for Yahoo! Kids. He holds a degree in broadcasting from Syracuse University and an MFA in dramatic writing from California State University Long Beach. He claims to spend his days staring off into space, dreaming of ways to make his young nephew laugh. He also blogs at http://adpock.blogspot.com/.
