Alora C. Chistiakoff first got online as a journalism student in 1993; she got her first tech industry job in 1996. Since then, she has spent her career as a change agent, implementing technical and BPI initiatives for both external and internal clients. Between the Bay Area and New York, Alora’s worked in ecommerce, advertising and the travel industries where she specialized in implementing Web 2.0 solutions. Though she has worked in different types of environments, her real passion is small companies and technology startups that allow her the opportunity to ‘wear many different hats.’ A project manager by discipline, Alora’s strength is in bridging the gap between business and technology to right-size solutions to the needs of an organization.
As Principal and Co-Founder of The Indigo Heron Group, Inc., Alora works with small businesses to help them leverage technology in support of organizational objectives, particularly in the areas of collaboration, transparency, operational efficiency and customer service.
Alora currently serves as the Sr. Managing Editor for Social Computing Magazine; she blogs regularly at The Pragmatic Contextualist about project management, organizational behavior and the social, economic and political implications of living in an Information Age. You can reach Alora by email or Twitter.
