Biography John Coate [USA]
has been in the online networking business for more than eleven years. He is now the General Manager of the SF Gate [www.sfgate.com], the most popular regional news website in America. For six years he was Conferencing Manager for The WELL where he helped establish the concept of the "virtual community," as depicted in the May 1997 cover story of WIRED Magazine. He is the suthor of the seminal essay Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community and has lectured at Stanford, MIT and at numerous events relating to multimedia and the Internet.