About Sarah Stokely

Hi there. My name is Sarah Stokely. I’m an online media specialist working at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation in Adelaide, Australia. I’m also the vice-chair of Electronics Frontiers Australia. In my spare time, I also organise #4good, a community for changemakers.

I also created 100 dates, a crowdsourced online dating project which was reported in media from Australia to New Zealand to Italy.

I’m an active speaker and participant in a number of media and technology conferences. Here’s a list of my appearances.

Here’s some stuff about me…

I used to teach at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communications. I taught Writing and Editing for Digital Media and Advanced Editing for Digital Media, which are the two subjects which make up the web publishing component of the Uni’s postgraduate publishing degree.

I also worked as the Community Manager for Nuffnang Australia, a blog advertising network.

I was the web editor for the launch of Australia’s first independent politics and current affairs blog network, for Crikey. I also helped steer them towards a complete change of publishing platform, onto the free & open source WordPress platform.

I was the launch editor of Lifehacker Australia, and built it into a Top 20 Australian blog within 6 months. In fact, we made it to #11!

In January 2008, I launched The Open Source Report, a news and blog site about Open Source technology and the Open Source community in Australia and around the world. It is now archived on this blog, Fox Force Five.

In 2004 I won the inaugural Best General Technology Journalist award at Australia’s annual IT Journalism Awards.

I worked as a tech journalist and editor in Australia and the UK from 2000 until 2009.

Find me online:

I’m most active on Twitter: @stokely
Email me: sarah @ foxforcefive.com.