ABOUT HELEN

Helen Gallagher launched Computer Clarity, a software consulting and training business, in 1996, after a 30-year corporate career. At a time when people most needed a little help getting started with computers and the Internet, she offered personal, customized training and workshops to bridge the gap between people and technology. 

Although Chicago-based, her work has taken her throughout the Midwest and the West Coast. Today, her thriving consulting practice is augmented by her writing on business and technology, with over 100 articles in major business and trade publications.

Just for fun, to celebrate ten years in business, Helen wrote her first book: Computer Ease, selected by Forbes.com Book Club, and winner of a non-fiction award from the Illinois Women's Press Association (IWPA) in 2006.

Helen is a contributor to Lonely Planet's Travelers Tales book, The World is a Kitchen. Her essay won the IWPA award in 2007.

Her 2007 book Release Your Writing: Book Publishing Your Way helps writers find the path to their dream of getting published. Release Your Writing is a USA Book News Award finalist. Helen's newest book Blog Power & Social Media Handbook hits store shelves in August 2010.

Conference & Workshop Venues:

• ASJA, Grand Hyatt, New York
• Barrington Writers Workshop
• Chicago-area Mensa Society
• In-home workshops, U.S, and Vancouver
• Loyola University Summer Writer's Workshop
• Manzanita Writers Group
• Midwest Writers Association, Chicago
• National Science Writers, Spokane
• Off-Campus Writers Workshop - oldest writing group in the U.S.
• Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Women's Exchange