Erin Jansen is considered a Web pioneer. As co-creator of NetLingo.com, one of the Top 3 Internet Dictionaries on the Web, Ms. Jansen manages and markets the award-winning publication. Ranked #676 in Google's Top 1000 Web Sites and voted two years in a row by PC Magazine as a "Top 100 Web Site," NetLingo has been reviewed in The New York Times, Fortune magazine, Reader's Digest, USA Today, People magazine, and many others. Erin has grown NetLingo to cult status and is credited with creating an industry standard targeted to new users and Internet professionals. Based on popular demand, she published NetLingo.com in print, "NetLingo The Internet Dictionary". More than 7000 copies of the book were sold at more than 950 Barnes and Noble Bookstores worldwide. Digital versions of NetLingo.com are available as an e-book or PDF, and a print on demand version is available online. Erin's mission is "to educate, entertain, and inform people worldwide about the language of the Internet."

Ms. Jansen has worked in the Internet industry since 1994 providing an array of skills and services for online initiatives. In addition to being President of a publishing company, she is a consultant for a select group of companies in California. For the past 14 years, Erin has worked in the Internet industry with numerous businesses in New York City, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and she has consulted on Internet projects in England, France and Germany.

Erin is both technical and creative when it comes to the Internet. Her experience is broad; from building Web sites to working as a Crusader, Erin has a history of advocating new business models and products on the Web. She specializes in: Web Site Architecture and User Interface Design, Content Development and Management, Internet Business Models and Industry Trends, Online Advertising Campaigns and Affiliate Marketing Programs, Web Traffic Reporting and Analysis, Community Building, E-commerce Solutions, and Online Search.

She is a published writer, public speaker and collaborator. Online at "sistergoldenhair.com" and "erinjansen.com" Erin is one of the original Webgrrls and has participated in a number of media broadcasts about cyberspace, including the film "Wild @ Start". Earlier she appeared on an infomercial, held weekly salons at the Cyber-Café, and participated as a panelist at industry conferences. Recently she has appeared on television news programs including FOX, CNN, MSNBC and the BBC, interviewed on numerous radio programs, and quoted in numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

Prior to becoming a consultant for 5 years, Erin was the Content Manager at OfficeDepot.com where she developed an online magazine for the USA's largest office products retailer. Her work involved content acquisition and management, navigational layout, graphic design, and online marketing for the start-up division.

During 1997 she was an Online Crusader at CNET: The Computer Network. As one of three corporate consultants for CNET's clients, she became an expert in online advertising. Traveling across the nation to meet with marketing and advertising executives, Erin helped define the standards used today for online advertising goals, creative, placement and strategy. In doing so, she provided sales support for some of the Web's most popular sites, including CNET.com, News.com, Shareware.com, and Download.com. She served on the International Committee of the IAB and spoke at the Builder.com Conference.

Erin moved to Silicon Valley in 1995 to develop content and steer online marketing for CareerMosaic.com, a leading employment-search site. In 1994, she founded Non-Stop Internet Inc., a Web design agency in New York City that produced 20+ Web sites, including SoHoNYC.com, one of the Web's first community sites. Prior to that she was in sales and championed online marketing programs at Virtual Yellow Pages, one of the first indexed directories (early competitors of Yahoo!).

Prior to her Internet career, Erin worked in Direct Mail Marketing for Rock The Vote; she also provided cross-cultural workshops for American women living in foreign countries. She is from a successful, entrepreneurial family and grew up in the retail industry.

Erin Jansen has an Masters degree in Industrial Psychology from the London School of Economics in England, and a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She currently lives in Santa Monica, California.