Bonnie is digital native, and an expert at making meaningful connection between people, place and technology. As a Director of BYO consulting, she approaches the social web from a fresh perspective with a background in urban design and local community building, and online organizing and strategic technology engagement.
Bonnie has over 9 years of international professional experience in design, strategy, and project management in local grounded and global online projects. In 2006 she was a founder of the global photographic treasure hunt and community engagement game: Snap-Shot-City.com - a ground breaking integrated technology event played around the world. Prior to founding BYO, Bonnie was employed with leading web thinkers EchoDitto.
Bonnie has degrees in Landscape Architecture, Planning and Design, and a Masters in Urban Design. She started her career designing cities and building civic engagement in disadvantaged communities in Australia and around the UK. She is passionate about serious play, and strives to inject lively creative collaboration processes to drive rigorous and implementable results. Bonnie regularly blogs at the intersection of people, place and technology, she was a guest researcher at MIT’s Senseable Cities Lab in 2008, and regularly presents on technology and online/offline community engagement, serious gaming, and digital storytelling at conferences around the world.
