‘Miss Rogue’ defines herself as a customer first, marketer second. In 2005, Tara became the marketing director at Riya, where her community marketing theories resulted in huge gains, such as national news mentions before launch and over one million photos uploaded within 24 hours of launch. She doesn’t believe in PR, only in the power of building relationships with a community. She co-founded Citizen Agency in 2006 with the mission of teaching her clients how to work more effectively with the communities they serve. Tara has over seven years experience in non-traditional marketing planning. She maintains a successful blog over at HorsePigCow.

Speaking of community, Tara is a community-based movement evangelist, spending all of her free time on Barcamp, Coworking, Pinko Marketing and Winecamp. She is also a supporter of the Open Source movement, the EFF, Creative Commons, Microformats, OpenID and is an avid customer advocate.

Former Speaking Engagements:

Blog Business Summit, Panelist, Seattle, WA, 2006

Bay CHI, Presenter, Palo Alto, CA, 2006

Attention Trust Meetup, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, 2006

Gnomedex, Presenter, Seattle, WA, 2006

SuperNova, Workshop Moderator, San Francisco, CA, 2006

Mesh Conference, Keynote Speaker, Toronto, ON, 2006

Alliance of Women in Technology, Panelist, Menlo Park, CA, 2006

Net2 Conference, Panelist & Immoderator, Mountain View, CA, 2006

Net Tuesday, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, 2006

SXSW, Panelist, Austin, TX, 2006

Several BarCamps, Presenter or Discussion Leader, All over the world, 2006

Future Speaking Engagements:

CommunityNext, Palo Alto, CA, February 9-10, 2007

Future of Web Apps, London, UK, February 20-22, 2007

SXSW, Austin, TX, March 10, 2007

Community 2.0, Las Vegas, NV, March 12-14, 2007

ETech, San Diego, CA, March 26-29, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2007

Plexus 2007, Toronto, ON, May 1-2, 2007