Ed Bott

Ed Bott is an award-winning author and technology journalist who has been researching and writing about Windows and PC technology, in print and on the Internet, for more than two decades. He has written more than 30 books, all on Windows and Microsoft Office, which in turn have been translated into dozens of languages and read worldwide. You can catch up with Ed’s latest opinions and get hands-on advice at The Ed Bott Report on ZDNet (zdnet.com/blog/bott). You can also follow his lively and occasionally irreverent Twitter feed (@edbott). Ed and his wife, Judy, live in northern New Mexico with two English springer spaniels, Mackie and Lucy, who were adopted with the help of English Springer Rescue America (springerrescue.org).

Ed Bott

Ed Bott is an award-winning technology journalist and author who has been writing about Microsoft technologies for more than two decades. He is the author of more than 25 books on Microsoft Windows and Office and writes regularly about technology for The Ed Bott Report at ZDNet.

David Karlins

Bruck K. Hopkins has been a professional illustrator for a decade, creating everything from fine art to technical drawings. His clients range from Joe Boxer to technology firms. His cutting edge Space series breaks new ground in using Adobe Illustrator for fine art. David Karlins is the author of several vector illustration books and videos including How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS, Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom (book and video), and Adobe Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild. He is a freelance graphic and interactive design consulting, and teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program.

David Karlins

David Karlins is a veteran Web designer and digital graphics consultant. He is the author of more than 20 books on digital graphic and interactive design, including Build Your Own Web Site, The Complete Idiot's Guides to Dreamweaver and Flash, Dreamweaver CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, and Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques. David's clients have ranged from Hewlett Packard to the Himalayan Fair. His articles and reviews appear in online and print publications, including CreativePro and Macworld magazine. David has taught at the University of California Extension School of Graphic and Interactive Design and for the San Francisco State University Digital Video Intensive program. He currently teaches Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Dreamweaver for the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program. Visit David at www.davidkarlins.com.

Woody Leonhard

Woody Leonhard has written the current Office Annoyances series, (3 books) with as well as The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows, and many others. He's a contributing Editor at PC Computing (circulation 1,000,000+) and Senior Editor at Office Computing (Circulation 400,000). His work appears in almost every issue of both publications. Woody's software company makes WOPR, Woody's Office POWER Pack, "The #1 Enhancement to Microsoft Office." Woody was recently awarded the Neal Award by the American Business Press for his Windows Superguide in the Oct. 1997 issue of PC Computing. This award is described as the "Pulitzer Prize for Business Writers."

Woody Leonhard

A noted authority on Microsoft Windows, Woody Leonhard is a contributing editor at PC Computing and publisher of the infamous electronic newsletter Woody's Office Watch. Woody has written or co-written more than a dozen books on Windows and Microsoft Office, including The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows, PC MOM: The Mother of All PC Books, and The Mother of All Windows 95 Books.

Brady Merkel

Eric S. Schlesinger has spent his entire professional life helping people in the job search process. He has been the director of recruiting for a major information systems consulting firm, and for 14 years he was the director of career services at Georgetown University, as well as the director of career services at The Catholic University of America. Schlesinger has a doctorate in education and is a highly sought-after speaker at best-practice conferences on using the Internet in Human Resources.

Brady Merkel

Ed Bott is an award-winning computer journalist and one of the most widely recognized voices in the computing world, with nearly two decades of experience as a writer and editor at leading magazines like PC World and PC Computing. Currently, he is Senior Contributing Editor for Smart Business (formerly PC Computing), a 1999 National Magazine Award winner with a monthly circulation of more than 1 million. On the Web, Ed is the Guide to Windows on About.com, one of the Internet's leading resources for news, information, and entertainment; he also writes a weekly column for TechRepublic.com. He is the author of a long list of Que books covering Microsoft Windows and Office; in all, Ed has reached more than 650,000 Windows and Office users through his unique combination of expert knowledge and friendly, down-to-earth style. Woody Leonhard describes himself as "a Microsoft Office victim." A contributing editor at PC Computing Magazine, Woody is known for his offbeat writing style and dead-on accurate technical content. He has earned an unprecedented six Computer Press Association awards and, with Ed Bott, two American Business Press awards. Woody is the author of Woody Leonhard Teaches Microsoft Office 2000 and Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000 which includes "Woody's Office POWER Pack," the award-winning Office add-on created by Woody1s software company. With 15 (or is it 16?) computer books under his belt, Woody is now the author "Woody's Office Watch" - a free (!) weekly electronic newsletter that holds Microsoft's feet to the fire. Woody is also a Tibetan human rights advocate and cofounder of the Tibetan Children's Fund. He lives on top of a mountain in Colorado.