Janine C. Warner

Janine Warner's best-selling books and videos about the Internet have won her an international following and earned her speaking and consulting engagements around the world. Janine’s skills as a “techy translator” helped her land the deal for her first book in 1996. She went on to write or coauthor more than 25 books about the Internet, including Web Sites For Dummies, Social Media Design For Dummies, and every edition of Dreamweaver For Dummies. Janine is the co-founder and Executive Director of SembraMedia, a nonprofit that supports digital media entrepreneurs (SembraMedia.org). She is also a Knight Fellow for the International Center for Journalists. Janine has taught courses at the University of Miami and the University of Southern California. She's also been a guest lecturer at more than 40 other universities in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Janine has taught 3 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Entrepreneurial Journalism in Spanish for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas. From 2001 to 20014, she ran DigitalFamily.com, a boutique interactive design and training agency that offered web design, content strategy, internet marketing, and online learning services. You can learn more about her books at digitalfamily.com. Janine began her career as a reporter in Northern California and recognized early that the Internet would transform traditional media and set out to learn everything she could about this new way of communicating. Her early Internet projects included managing communications with a team of programmers in Siberia, designing a virtual store for Levi Strauss, and building one of the first newspaper websites in the country for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light. In 1998, her experience as a journalist and Internet consultant, combined with her fluency in Spanish, took her to The Miami Herald, as the Online Managing Editor. A year later, she was promoted to Director of New Media. She left that position to serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks. She has been a member of the TV Academy's Interactive Media Peer Group and has served as a judge in the Interactive Emmy Awards, the Knight News Challenge, the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet Awards, and the World Summit Mobile & Content Awards. When she's not traveling, she is based in Southern California where she lives with her husband, David LaFontaine, and occasionally takes a break to run on the beach. Learn more about Janine at http://www.JCWarner.com.