Emily Meyer
Emily Meyer is co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Tea Collection,
a globally-inspired children's apparel company based in San Francisco.
She loves traveling abroad with her dedicated team to discover
inspiration for the next collection.
In her spare time, she immensely
enjoys doing arts & crafts with her two young children, ideating
interior design, and satiates her Pinterest addiction via her iPhone.
Blog/Website: Tea Collection
Topic: Find great innovative content and How to find the right business partner
Luisa Weiss
Luisa
Weiss has been blogging about home cooking, newspaper recipes, and the
intersection of food and life at The Wednesday Chef since 2005.
The Wednesday Chef has been featured in the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, and The Daily Telegraph, among others, and was honored as one of the top 3 food blogs in the world by the Times of London. Luisa spent a decade working in book publishing in New York City before pulling up stakes and moving to Berlin, where she was born and partially raised, three years ago.
Luisa left behind a job as a cookbook editor to become a freelance writer, publishing her first book, My Berlin Kitchen, a memoir with recipes, in the fall of 2012. She lives in Berlin with her husband and son.
The Wednesday Chef has been featured in the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, and The Daily Telegraph, among others, and was honored as one of the top 3 food blogs in the world by the Times of London. Luisa spent a decade working in book publishing in New York City before pulling up stakes and moving to Berlin, where she was born and partially raised, three years ago.
Luisa left behind a job as a cookbook editor to become a freelance writer, publishing her first book, My Berlin Kitchen, a memoir with recipes, in the fall of 2012. She lives in Berlin with her husband and son.
Blog/Website: The Wednesday Chef
Topic: Editorial calender and how to organize your online/offline life
Topic: Editorial calender and how to organize your online/offline life
Kirsten JassiesKirsten Jassies is productmanager bloggers & social at publisher Sanoma Media Netherlands.
She is setting up a bloggersnetwork called Blogtoday.nl and responsible for professionalizing the use of social media for online women brands. Her expertise are blogs, contentstrategy, social media, and visual content.
She blogs on her personal blog Just Kirsten.
The blogging network she is setting up is called Blog today (live in a few weeks)
Blog/Website: Blog Today, Just Kirsten
Topic: Blog Networks
Erin Loecher
In addition to blogging, she dabbles into styling, interior design and copywriting for the creative industry.
Topic: Design for Mankind
Patrick Singer
Patrick Singer trains and consults media and performance agencies on a number of products such as Google AdWords and Google Analytics. Patrick is a frequent speaker at conferences and a guest lecturer at University of Hamburg and Hamburg Media School.
Prior to joining the Google agency team in 2007 he
worked in Google's European Headquarters in Dublin. There he held a
number of roles in operations management and business development and
managed a pan-EMEA training program for agencies. Patrick Singer studied media management and international business in Germany and Finland.
Blog/Website: Google Analytics
Blog/Website: Google Analytics
Topic: Google Analytics
Ailine was born close to Berlin and soon decided to dedicate her life to pretty things. After she spent the first part of her life with painting and drawing, a camera and capturing the world with it was soon to become her main addiction. She then studied at Lette Verein to make photography her profession. In 2009 she was asked by the founders of Freunde Von Freunden to become their main photographer and for them, developed their typical authentic and emotional photo style. Most of her pictures were published in their Berlin book soon after. In April 2012, inspired by a 2 months trip through California, she started Aicuisine, a blog that focuses on her biggest private obsession: food.
She now lives and works in Berlin as a food blogging photographer and travels around the world to find beauty in ordinary things.
Blog/Website: Aicuisine
Workshop: Food Photography
Dietlind Wolf
Dietlind is a visual multi-disciplinary designer, prop stylist and photographer, freelancer and creating artist based in Hamburg, Germany.
With a background of visual communication and haute couture textile design she jumped years ago into prop styling for food and decor. Due to the need of different shapes, sizes and colours of plates for the shootings, she started making porcelain and ceramics.
To follow her ideas and finding inspiration she uses all kinds of creative sources like painting, sewing and papercut. The blog was started as a styling portfolio in 2008 and is now a mix of photography and styling. She spares with words, but lavishes with pictures.
Blog/Website: flow1ltd, Dietlind Wolf
Topic: Styling and photo workshop (emphasis more on styling) 
Lena Sönnichsen has studied cultural sciences in Luneburg with focus on public relations.
After various internships and work expierences in Germany and abroad, she was general manager of her own startup CashBits.
She is now the press offficer for
Airbnb in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia and Israel and is responsible
for the social media activities.
Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world – online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 19,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.
Blog/Website: AirbnbFounded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world – online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 19,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.
Topic: Airbnb
Bastian Scherbeck is managing director of We Are Social
Germany – the largest independent social media agency worldwide – and one of the
leading German social media and digital communications experts. He has
extensive experience in consulting small and large, globally acting companies.
Together with his team of currently 20 employees, he helps brands to listen,
understand and engage in conversations in social media – covering the whole
spectrum from strategic concept, through daily interaction with influencers,
to monitoring-based optimizations.
We Are Social is a new kind of agency that combines an
innate understanding of social media with digital, PR, and marketing skills. We
Are Social is entirely focused on innovative, creative and effective social media
marketing and communications. Since June 2008 the agency has grown to an
international team of almost 300 people across eight offices and won several
industry awards.
Blog/Website: We are social
Topic: Social Media - How to use it and how not to use it!
Blog/Website: We are social
Topic: Social Media - How to use it and how not to use it!
Georg is the Head of SEO at AndroidPIT, Europes largest Android Community. Having previously worked in Publishing, he moved to Berlin in search of something new and exciting and found his niche as a SEO Manager in the Berlin Start Up Scene.
With 2 other Entrepreneurs, he also runs Linquisite - an Amsterdam/Berlin based SEO Consultancy aimed at helping small and mid sized websites maximize their traffic potential. Aside from analyzing traffic stats and keywords, he is a passionate photographer, history enthusiast and blogs about all things Berlin on Digital Cosmonaut.
Blog/Website: Digital Cosmonaut / Linquisite
Workshop: SEO
As early as college, Tiffany knew that entrepreneurship would be a major component of her life and career as long as she was breathing. After starting her first business in 2000, Tiffany has gone on to not only establish several successful companies herself, but also to help others achieve their dreams in business as well.
The blogging bug bit her in 2006, and she has happily been
blogging away at her own blog, No Ordinary Homestead, which portrays her
passions for natural living, good food, working from home, her family, expat
life, balancing all those things together and, most recently, running, as she
trains for the 2013 Berlin Marathon.
NOH has been featured in the NY Times
Global Edition, BlogHer, Delish Mag, Ocala Style Magazine, and Women’s Web and
was chosen as a Top Expat Blog at InterNations and the Germany #1 Blog at Go!
Overseas. Tiffany is also a Small Business Ambassador for Evernote.
Tiffany has been living in Germany since 2001 and currently
lives in Berlin with her husband, 4-year-old daughter, a goofy 55-kilo
Newfoundland dog and two psychotic cats.
Blog/Website: No Ordinary Homestead
Topic: How newsletters can support your blog and/or business
Blog/Website: No Ordinary Homestead
Topic: How newsletters can support your blog and/or business
Adrian is co-founder of the German law blog Telemedicus and works as scientific assistant in the Cologne office of Osborne Clarke. Before and during his studies he also used to work as software developer.
That's why he is a kind of nerd when it comes to legal questions about any kind of media.
However, he hates talking legalish and tries to explain things in the language of normal human beings.
Blog/Website: Telemedicus
Topic: Legal Issues (in English)
Dr. Ina Kaulen
Ina is a lawyer from Hamburg. She runs her own office and
is specialized in Copyright, Media and Internet Law. Ina has
studied law at the Hamburg University and found out soon
about her interest in all legal issues concerning the media.
Later, while working as an employee in a legal office, she
has practiced all kind of different cases which gave her the
knowledge and experience about the practical side of legal
problems. Her personal aim is to understand people and to
find
solutions which they can handle in their every day
(business) life. To be able to offer an even more very personal
counselling and to focus on clients that are creators and users of art
and media without being part of the big media industry, she
decided
to quit her employment and opened her own legal office in Hamburg.
Blog/Website: Kanzlei Kaulen
Topic: Legal issues (in German)
Topic: Legal issues (in German)
A creative nomad and avid collaborator, Kat thoroughly enjoys workingwith different tools and different people. Zero the One is her collection of stories and experiments in art, design and video. Half zen and half crazy, she tries to break her limits while practicing
simple living. She has an immense love for people who live and work passionately.This led her to create Muse, a video portrait series. She also collaborated with an Italian journalist (her husband) and interviewed various Greek artists/professionals for a travel documentary called Project Greece. She has made animations, taught in a multimedia art school in Manila (My Masterpiece Movement), worked as an Arts
Associate for The National Art Gallery in Singapore, conducted video workshops for environmental awareness with Enigmata in Camiguin Island, created and participated in inter-genre art events and groups. She currently lives with her son and husband in Rome, Italy where they continue to work and collaborate with other creatives.
Blog/Website: Zero the One
Workshop: Video Blogging
Janna Krupinski
Janna is a graphic
designer based in Hamburg with an obsession for all things fun and colorful.
Some years ago she discovered the beautiful world of lifestyle and craft blogs.
Being always a crafty person herself she finally started her blog Tabula Rosi
in February 2012 as a playground for her creative endeavors.
She has worked in
advertising agencies as creative director for several years and is now working
as a freelancer.
Though lacking the technical skills she is a passionate photographer,
loves sewing, decorating and DIY experiments.
Blog/Website: Tabula Rosi
Topic: Pretty up your blog posts
Deborah Beau
Passionate about
art, design, interiors and beautiful things ever since she can remember,
Deborah Beau decided to leave the world of technical translation to become a
professional blogger in June 2009.
Both prolific and
original, she loves sharing her finds online, via her own blog Kickcan &
Conkers, her kids' web shop and her guest posts. She is very active on
pinterest, facebook and twitter, as well as working freelance for kids' design
magazines and being a regular contributor to Poppytalk.
Deborah Beau lives with
her French husband and their three children in a small village in the South of
France.
Blog/Website:
Kickcan & Conkers
Topic: Grow your community
Sibylle Roessler
Sibylle is a
freelance designer and blogger. Living dangerously close to the biggest flea
market in Europe, she happily combines work with play and is a self-confessed
flea-market addict. In less than a year
the popularity of her blog ‘Funkytime’ grew quickly, acknowledged by Apartment
Therapy & Design Sponge for her “funky style” . It was also recently
featured in the blogger’s bible Artful Blogging and in many magazines and
books. BRIGITTE, Germany’s most popular women’s magazine declared Funkytime to
one of the 12 most creative blogs on the internet.
Sibylle loves to
combine vintage and contemporary for her fresh style – she shares her DIY
projects and decorating ideas and ways to achieve a beautiful home without
spending a fortune. She is also
publishing Funkytime Magazine, which is a seasonal home and lifestyle magazine
featuring articles on food, design, fashion & DIY projects.
Blog/Website:
Funkytime
Workshop: Photoshop
Katja Henschel
Katja Hentschel is a
photographer and blogger who in 2007 launched travelettes.net, an
online-magazine written by and targeted at young women from around the world
who love traveling.
Travelettes is now among the world's most successful travel
blogs who have collaborated with brands such as Blurb, Mercedes-Benz and Kodak.
As a photo journalist she has worked for media such as Glamour, Grazia or Petra
for which she also occasionally writes articles. In June 2012 she
published the book "In High Heels um die Welt", a selection of 33
non-fiction travel short stories written by 20 different female authors.
Blog/Website:
Travelettes
Topic: Travelblogging
Eleanor Mayrhofer
Eleanor Mayrhofer is
the 'e.m.' behind e.m.papers, her printable paper goods company. She maintains
three blogs; one for e.m.papers, Steal This Process, where she helps small
creative businesses understand productivity and project management, and
Wahlmünchnerin, where she writes about life in Munich. She was recently
featured in the Etsy 'Quit Your Day Job' series and her work has been
highlighted in blogs and magazines like Martha Stewart Weddings, Oh So
Beautiful Paper and Apartment Therapy. Eleanor has enjoyed contributing to
several blogs including Design*Sponge, Designing an MBA and Scoutie Girl.
Blogs/Websites:
Steal this Process, Wahlmünchnerin, e.m. papers
Topic: Blogging for your business
Kai Petermann
His love with the
internet started in 1996. At the same time he started working in various
advertising agencies as a graphic designer. While the years passed by he dug
deeper and deeper into digital communication and brand building, so his work
became a nice mix of brand strategies, creative conception and some editorial
stuff. Sometimes he still works for cool advertising agencies and their even
cooler clients as a freelancer.
Various digital
projects always kept him from having too much spare time. After spending some
years on other web based projects he started Stilsucht in 2009. The main
objective of this site is providing a stage for (mostly) young designers and
their products. The concept is supported by various smaller projects, which
bring Stilsucht from a pure digital state to something touchable.
Blogs/Website:
Stilsucht
Topic: Turn your blog into a brand
Marlous Snijder
Marlous Snijder,
editor and publisher of Oh Marie! magazine, a bilingual (Dutch/English) digital
magazine about the love of treasure hunting (in the widest sense of the term).
Blogger and Etsy webshop owner.
Once a full-time secretary with a need for a
creative outlet, now a full-time creative business owner.
She blogs about thriftfinds, her home, life in general
and everything that makes her smile.
Blog/website: Planet Fur/ Oh Marie!
Topic: E-Mags
Sophie-Charlotte
Chapman
A mother of three,
living a franco-english family life somewhere in Normandy. She also teaches
English for business to students and fell in love with blogging two years ago.
Her blog features anglo saxon DIY projects that are translated into French.
Having a degree in entrepreneurship, she wanted to combine crafts and business skills. So the idea of
teaching craftsellers how to market their products was born. With an online
friend, using social media, they built a community of craftsellers who needed
advice and training to enhance their blog and eshop. They set up e-classes
using a blog as a classroom and since then all our online session are full!
Feedback is great and the waiting list is expanding day by day.
Blog/website: Ma petite valisette
Topic: Online classes and teaching with a blog
The Hauptstadtmuttis
Meet Isa and
Claudia, two Hauptstadtmuttis from Berlin. They have been working in the online
and media business for many years now. When they became mothers (Claudia: a
three-year-old; Isa: a three-year-old and a baby), they saw how many mothers,
are having less time for themselves and managed to look great at the same time.
Eventually they
grabbed their cameras to prove the following: Moms, who must stop being a
women, are nothing but a myth.
Blog/Website:
Hauptstadtmutti
Topic: Create a kick ass media kit
Desiree
Desiree is the
founder and author of interior and lifestyle blog Vosgesparis. A consistently
fresh source for ideas on decorating with minimal colour and maximum style.
What began five years ago as a blog about the design of her own home, has
gradually transformed into an online journal covering contemporary interior
design, staying close to her own taste and style, priding herself on finding
beauty in imperfection. Though living in the city of Amsterdam, Desiree can
often be found in Paris, sometimes jumping on the train, other times through
her imagination, wandering through the city and coming home with endless
inspiration.
Turning this
inspiration into blog posts, she hopes to inspire her readers on how to trust
their own feelings, find their own style and bring this creativity in to their
homes to make it a reflection of who they are.
Blog/Website:
Vosgesparis
Topic: The business of blogging
Jenni Fuchs
Jenni Fuchs is a
thirty-something museologist currently living in Berlin where she works for the
National Museums managing their social media. Previously, she lived in Edinburgh
for over half her life, where she worked for National Museums Scotland in
audience research, among other things. Jenni also runs Museum140, an
independent initiative bringing together museums and museum lovers through
social media projects. Her most successful project to date is Adopt-a-Museum, a
crowdsourced blog that aims to put some of the unsung heroes of the museum
world in to the spotlight. In her free time, Jenni writes her popular blog
Museum Diary, which she describes as "a personal journey around the
museums of the world", and she has also contributed articles to sisterMAG.
Her mission in life is to dispel the myth that museums are the dusty, boring
places many people still perceive them to be. She has blogged about museums on
everything from perfume and parasites, to phalluses and fire engines. As Jenni
puts it: "If you love museums, you'll love Museum Diary. If you don't, you
will after reading my blog!
Blog/Website: Museum Diary
Topic: Blogs for a special niche and audience
Tina Fussell
Tina Fussell is an
American wife, mom of three, and a restless traveler. As a writer, photographer, and all around creative type, she
loves to share her travels and creative endeavors through her blog, Flying
House by Traveling Mama. Her work
has been published in several printed magazines, including PaperCrafts Magazine
and Artful Blogging to online magazines such as Gatherings and Styled. Since
beginning her journey as a blogger in 2007, she has lived in Morocco for three
years and Denmark for another two and a half, and even lived in Spain for two
years. She believes that travel
provides the greatest creative inspiration and that the world is like our
backyard, just waiting to be explored, discovered, and photographed.
Blog/Website: Flying House by Traveling Mama
Topic: Blogging for the fun of it