Amy Vernon

Amy spent nearly 20 years as a daily newspaper reporter and editor, until the Great Newspaper Culling of 2008. In the first day of her post-newspaper life, she had her first contract offer as a consultant. She hasn’t looked back since. The top female user of all time on Digg.com, Amy has established a strong presence on a variety of social networks, particularly Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon. She is a sought-after freelance writer, editor and digital strategist, and covers open source for the enterprise for Network World’s Open Source Subnet. Amy is also known widely as the Bacon Queen and maintains the only bacon news aggregator on the Internet, BaconQueen.com – think of it as the Drudge Report, but for bacon. Amy lives in New Jersey with her (some might say long-suffering) husband and two boisterous boys.