Meet Krista Thomas

Beth Laing

15 years ago

Vice President, Marketing and Communications for OpenCalais
Participant: We Media Miami ’10

Krista Thomas

Krista is the vice president of Marketing and Communications for Thomson Reuters OpenCalais Initiative at OpenCalais.com. OpenCalais is a free Semantic Web service and open API that makes it easy to automate content operations, enhance content with open data assets, and increase reader engagement. Krista was formerly senior director of Communications for AOL, director of Communications for Shopping.com, and director of Communications for CMGI + AltaVista.

Beth Laing

Beth Laing is the project manager for iFOCOS, which organizes the We Media conferences, awards and community. Prior to working with We Media she worked in a variety of new media roles with Knight Ridder, Infonautics and Access Atlanta. She is currently on the board of the Atlanta Women’s Alliance (AWA), Community Advisory Board for Junior League Dekalb and a Leadership Dekalb 2010 class member.