ShinyDoor Team

Angela Siefer, Founder & Chancellor
Angela envisions a world in which all members of society have the tools and the resources to use the internet for the betterment of themselves and their communities. Angela's MA in Sociology, her geeky interest in technology and her tendency toward overachieving make for one empire building social networking entrepreneur.
Angela is her own success story. She attributes a good deal of her success to having a strong network (both online and offline). Angela's experience lies in education, small business, nonprofits. She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Franklin University. Over the past ten years she has served as the Vice President of Business Development at Lumifi, a software startup offering an online collaborative research portal, the Executive Director of Grassroots.org, a national nonprofit providing capacity building services to small and medium size nonprofits and the Executive Director of the Ohio Community Computing Network, a statewide organization promoting the efforts of community technology programs to bridge the digital divide.
Angela very much believes in the power of community. She serves on multiple voluntary boards including the Public Interest Registry and Alliance for Community Media.  Angela is also the proud bearer of both a Black Belt in TaeKwonDo and a Green Belt in Krav Maga.
Angela's Story

 
Laura Rees, Vice Chancellor 
Laura Rees is a freelance technology writer.  She not only uses social networking but very much enjoys figuring out how to expand her network.  Laura has a background in both HR and marketing communications. She has also spent over ten years working in the IT industry.
All that makes Laura perfect for assisting ShinyDoor's freelance and small business clients. Because she loves exploring new ideas and how to get them, she blogs on idea development.

 
 
 
Linnette Schaffer, Royal Abacus Manager 
Every team needs a scientist (don't they?) and every team needs a bookkeeper. ShinyDoor found an all-in-one scientist bookkeeper.  Linnette is an environmental chemist turned number cruncher.
With an MS in Textile Science, Linnette is as detail oriented as they come. Thank goodness for us!
Her community involvement tends toward the creative side, volunteering with the Otterbein historic costume collection and My Very Own Blanket.