Name: Jessamyn West on Bridging the Digital Divide
Uploaded: 2008-11-03T07:04:15-05:00
Duration: 4 min 43 s
Description: Jessamyn West talks about traveling the country helping users utilize the full potential of Web 2.0. This series brought to you by Dell and digitalnomads.com

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Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West is a community technology librarian and a moderator of the massive group blog MetaFilter.com. She lives in a rural area of Central Vermont where she teaches basic computer[…]

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Jessamyn West talks about traveling the country helping users utilize the full potential of Web 2.0.

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