Anne Collier's NetFamilyNews.org is the digital "community newspaper" of the tech-parenting and online-safety community - the only news service of its kind on the Web. Its "kid-tech news for parents" is designed to empower and educate grownups with the latest information on children's tech interests and practices, as well as their online safety. Net Family News is delivered daily and weekly in a variety of formats: an email newsletter, an RSS feed, a blog, a podcast, and on the Web site.

Anne is also co-director of BlogSafety.com and co-author of MySpace Unraveled: What It is and How to Use it Safely.

Collier is a mom, analyst, children's advocate, and journalist who has worked in media since 1980, in print and radio and on TV and the Web. She began her career in international news as a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor in Southeast Asia. She later served as Asia editor, associate producer for MonitorRadio, and Tokyo correspondent and award-winning Boston-based national correspondent for World Monitor, a nightly TV news program that aired nationwide on The Discovery Channel. In 1995 and 1996, she helped launch the Monitor's Web site, CSMonitor.com, heading its editorial staff. In January 1999 she launched Tech Parenting Group, the nonprofit public service that publishes Net Family News.

Anne has been a contributor to Children's Technology Revue magazine and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's NetSmartz.org and writes a weekly news column for Staysafe.org. She serves on the Advisory Board of Washington-based GetNetWise.org, and works in close association with sister organizations SafeKids.com, Netmom.com, and London-based Childnet International.

Anne Collier will appear on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2 pm, in the Salt Lake City Main Library, Conference Room A/B.