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Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams

Founder & CEO

Lisa Williams is the Director of Digital Engagement for the Investigative News Network. She is also CEO and founder of Placeblogger.com, the world's largest searchable index of local weblogs. Placeblogger was a winner of the Knight 21st Century News Challenge, which gives out $5 million dollars annually to innovators with projects that aim to define the future of journalism. Lisa is also a fellow at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Future Civic Media, which is one of the most well-known university-based technology and innovation centers in the world. The newly formed Center for Future Civic Media focuses on meeting the information needs of humanity over the next 100 years. Prior to founding Placeblogger, Lisa founded H2Otown, an online community and news site by and for the residents of her hometown of Watertown, Mass. H2Otown became a nationally recognized model for citizen journalism. Lisa has also worked with the Boston Globe, the Center for Citizen Media, and countless startups and media organizations. She graduated from Emerson College in 1992. [email protected]

Lisa Williams's Blogs and Trainings

[Archived Virtual Class, January 2013] A Deeper Dive Into Data

Want to get your hands dirty with data and start producing your own data visualizations Read More

You've got data -- Now what? School Facts Jax tames the tangle of school data

What do people really want from your data?  These days, data -- data visualization, data journalism, and data-driven civic apps Read More

NJ News Commons Helps Residents Vote, Track Results In Wake Of Hurricane Sandy

New Jersey News Commons, a new project to pump up the amount of civic news and information for New Jersey Read More