About Gail, sorta formal. OK, not.

Hi! Please call me Gail. I often use my middle name, mainly for disambiguation, as they call it at Wikipedia, since there are other impressively talented and active women named Gail Williams. I’m the one interested in online community, photography, craft beer, political satire and video, and the one from San Francisco. This stuff below is adapted from a semi-stuffy bio I’ve used for speaking engagements and the like. Not very conversational, but this might be interesting to somebody, sometime:

Gail is an online community and social media pioneer who served as Executive Director at the early online community, The WELL, prior to Salon’s acquisition of that acclaimed site in 1999, and then as Director of Communities at Salon.com. When Salon decided to sell The WELL to community members in 2012, she stayed on for a couple more years to help make the transition.

Prior to her work at The WELL, Williams was involved in a satirical theater company, in both creative and management roles. She was was a core member of the award-winning political comedy collective, the Plutonium Players, and a writer, performer and co-director of their long-touring hit show spoofing right-wing extremists, “Ladies Against Women.” Her years in theater were marked by her dual focus on irreverent satire and on intense collaborative audience interactions, including improvisation.

Her current passions include wilderness, baseball, geology, craft beers and digital photography. With her husband Steve, she maintains BeerByBART.com and other projects.

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OK, enough with the third-person. This old blog has had infrequent and perhaps overly long posts. It exists for spare ideas that are too convoluted to go into conversational posts or photo captions. Thanks for reading.