In 2000 I became International Communities Producer at Yahoo!. This was a great opportunity for me because not only did I love working with online communities, but I also had a deep passion for understanding different cultures. In this position I worked to deploy and maintain Yahoo!s community services across Yahoo!'s 23 markets during a time of extremely rapid market growth both domesticaly and internationally.

At the time our services included:

• Yahoo! Clubs
• Yahoo! Photos and Briefcase
• Yahoo! Member Directory and Profiles

Learning about the user needs within each of our global markets and balancing our priorities across 23 different countries during the infancy of the internet was an experience I will never forget.