Speakers: Stephanie Booth

Session

Going Solo: My Story and What I Learned

This is my story. The ups and downs of freelancing, and organising a conference on the subject, Going Solo.

I've been a freelancer since early 2005 (full-time since mid-2006), and since then, I've seen good times and bad times, made mistakes, and learned quite a bit.

In this session, I'll tell you my story, and the most important things I've learned. I could also title it "on being human: never listening to what others tell you".

Bio

Stephanie Booth studied philosophy, Indian religions and French language and literature at University of Lausanne, where she lives. She has been blogging in French and English since she came back from a year in India in 2000. Her blog Climb to the Stars was one of the first French language blogs, and is today amongst the most popular blogs in Switzerland.

After a few years working as a project manager and then a schoolteacher, Stephanie Booth is now a professional new media consultant and speaker. Over the last three years, she has consulted and given talks on blogging and social media to a wide range of clients, including schools, businesses large and small (Intel, Romandie Formation), media companies (Femina, Vibrations Magazine), and various non-profits (ciao.ch, FMEL). She combines direct experience online with solid theoretical knowledge of the internet to explain its complexities, both technical and cultural.