Dawne Tortorella

Dawne Tortorella is owner and founder of BellCow, Inc, a technology consulting firm. BellCow, Inc. provides technology support for a wide range of organizations, including libraries, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. She is an adjunct faculty member at Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science and has recently developed workshops for their Continuing Professional Education program on “Trends in Social Media and their Impact on Library Communications.” Prior to founding BellCow fifteen years ago, Dawne served as Director of Academic Computing and Administrative Computing at DePaul University for 12 years and served as the IT Director for the National Alzheimer’s Association for two years.

Dawne has developed over 100 different seminar topics in technology applications and usage for libraries, conducted numerous planning session and focus groups, and served as project manager and team member on technology projects including web-based membership application development, digital imaging, and network/physical plant development. Recent research includes study of social network analysis in organizational development and the impact of social media tools in professional development.