Erin Jansen is considered a Web pioneer. As founder of NetLingo.com since 1995, one of the most popular 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, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, 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 Erin published NetLingo.com in print, "NetLingo The Internet Dictionary" and continues to publish digital versions of NetLingo.com, including "NetLingo The Largest List of Text & Chat Acronyms". She offers free Acronym of the Day and Jargon of the Day emails to keep parents and professionals up-to-date about the ever evolving terminology. Her mission is to educate, entertain, and inform people worldwide about the language of the Internet.

Recognized as a Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch at an AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Silicon Valley, Ms. Jansen has worked in the Internet industry since 1994 providing an array of services for online companies in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City, as well as 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 an evangelist, Erin has a history of advocating new business models and products on the Web.

She is a published writer, public speaker and collaborator. Online at erinjansen.com and sistergoldenhair.com Erin is one of the original Webgrrls and has participated in a number of media broadcasts about cyberspace, including the film Wild @ Start. She has appeared on an infomercial, held weekly Cyber-Cafˇ roundtable salon discussions and participated as a panelist at industry conferences. She has appeared on TV news and talk show programs including The Martha Stewart Show, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC and the BBC, interviewed on several radio programs, and referenced in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.

Erin has worked with venture capital funded start-ups based in Silicon Valley, at a think tank in New York City and as the advertising agency team lead for the Microsoft account in Seattle. Prior to becoming a consultant for five years, Erin specialized in Content Management Systems in San Francisco and was one of the first online crusaders at CNET and served on the International Committee of the Internet Advertising Bureau.

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. She loves to travel and has been to 50 states and 34 countries; she wrote a blog about her trek across Spain while doing the Camino.

Erin Jansen has a Masters degree in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics in England, and a Bachelor degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.