Social Media Week - New York

Joyce Bettencourt (SL: Rhiannon Chatnoir) is President and Director of Operations & Logistics for AvaCon, Inc. She left the corporate design world in 2007 to co-found the company The Vesuvius Group, LLC (http://thevesuviusgroup.com) and work full-time doing virtual world marketing, creative direction and development within Second Life and other online virtual spaces. Her prior professional experience includes working as a new media designer and interactive specialist for the Online Leadership Program at the educational non-profit Global Kids, Inc. as well as developer and editor of their widely read youth digital media focused blog http://olpglobalkids.org. Joyce is an artist, interactive designer and digital media producer whose focus is where creativity, community, social good and the future converge online!