About Anne

Anne Truitt Zelenka is a web technologist, consultant, and writer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working. She blogs about technology and the social web at Togetherism and writes about family at The Everyday Cafe.

Anne served as Editor at Large for GigaOmniMedia from 2006 to 2008. She wrote and edited articles for Web Worker Daily and GigaOM on career, productivity, business, and technology topics.

Her writing and research explores the gaps and linkages across a mix of topics including social media, next-generation web tools, behavioral economics, career management, personal finance, and virtual teams. Prior to launching this blog in late 2005, she was on hiatus from the workforce for five years. During that break, she dabbled in stay-at-home motherhood, rode the real estate bubble from Palo Alto to McLean to Maui, meditated inconsistently, and produced The Barely Attentive Mother, a now-defunct mommyblog.

Anne’s technology career v1.0 started in 1993 in Silicon Valley, when she convinced defense contractor Delfin Systems to hire her for a Unix programming job even though she didn’t have a computer science degree. She experienced the first Internet boom with box seats, at a small startup that went on to be acquired and later at database behemoth Oracle. Anne holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy and master’s degree in statistics from Stanford University. She learned to program at age 13 on her dad’s home computer and has been a computing enthusiast ever since.

Anne lives in Denver with her husband, three children, and dog. Her hobbies include hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park and painting abstracts with acrylics.

Selected articles

The connected age

How the web changes work

Personal growth, connectedness, mindfulness, and success

Web technology perspectives