Lisa Williams runs H2otown, a community and news site for Watertown, MA. In addition to running H2otown, she's been active in collecting examples of and writing about what she likes to call "placeblogs," blog-based sites about geographical communities.

Her current project is Placeblogger.com, an aggregator and searchable directory of independent local blogs. Since launching on January 1, 2007, the site has ammassed the largest available directory of local weblogs. Placeblogger was one of the winners of the Knight 21st Century News Challenge, and is currently funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

In addition to her role as a project leader at the Center for Citizen Media, Lisa is also a 2007 Peter Jennings Fellow at the National Center for the Constitution.

Lisa's been blogging since 2000 on her personal site and is a member of the Berkman Blog Group hosted by the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. She was an active member of the iPodder team, doing outreach and documentation including the web movie Four Minutes About Podcasting. She's been working with the Center for Citizen Media since June of 2006.

Lisa has spoken at many newspaper associations, AEJMC's annual conference, Bloggercon II and IV, BlogHer I and II, Media Giraffe's Democracy and Independence conference, South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) and Citizen Journalism Unconference at Wikimania. In her previous career as a technology analyst, she spoke at many tech conferences. She's been a consultant to national and local publications on the subject of blogging and community engagement online. She lives in Watertown, MA, with her husband and two children.