Hi. I'm Gail Williams.



Gail Ann Williams to be specific.

Williams is an exceptionally generic name in my county, and I share my first name with some remarkable Williams women in other fields.

So let's call this disambiguation: I'm the one from the San Francisco Bay Area, first known for theatre, then involved in online community management. (Managing social networks is sometimes nearly an oxymoron, so obviously work has been very interesting at times!) You may know me as gail on The WELL, as gailwilliams on my current blog project, or as fotogail on Flickr and Vimeo.

Like so many people, I now have bits of information scattered all over the Web. This is a page I don't update too often, but it can serve as an anchor point with links to some of my very different projects.

Becoming gail @ The WELL, my original home page at The WELL, was my first HTML playspace. The WELL's been a beloved home since 1990. I've been part of WELL management now, and the community is part of Salon.com. The old home page is not much different than when I first started it, however.

is where I blog and comment on social networking and community issues once in a while.

is a San Francisco craft beer by mass transit reference site and blog I do with my husband. We also write for The Celebrator Beer News together.

At some, and at for the resume and recommendations bit.

Here are some things others say about me, or interviews of me, elsewhere:

Wikipedia:

GirlGeeks: Women Who Inspire Us - Gail Ann Williams interviewed

Utne Reader:

POP Interactive:

are another place where I post words as well as images, play with social networking tools and collaborate visually.

some of my stuff at flickr.com

and a little bit of playing around this videosharing site.

Here's more about that blast from the past, The Plutonium Players. Long before Stephen Colbert, we were spoof.

Psst...looking for the "proverbs"? This is my tip sheet for moderators and community builders.






Copyright Gail Ann Williams. (That means ask me if you want to use anything. I almost always will say yes, but I do want to know what you have in mind.