Larry Magid is co-founder and co-director of ConnectSafely.org, the leading interactive resource for parents, teens, educators, advocates and everyone engaged and interested in the impact of the fixed and mobile social Web. The site serves as a public platform to give parents, teens and all stakeholders a voice in the public discussion about social Web safety and youth.

As co-director, Magid is in charge of planning new projects, identifying and working with potential partners and working on policy issues, a task both he and his co-director, Anne Collier, take on together. He also speaks publicly on behalf of ConnectSafely.org and writes for the site.

In addition to his ConnectSafely.org responsibilities, Magid is a technology columnist and broadcaster, a role he’s held for more than two decades. He presently serves as Technology Analyst for CBS News & CNET. His technology reports can be heard several times a week on CBS News and CBS affiliates throughout the U.S., and he has a daily tech segment for KCBS radio in San Francisco. He’s made several appearances on CBS News network TV programs, CNET webcasts and local TV news stations and his columns and podcasts can be found on CBSNews.com and News.CNET.com. He is also a weekly columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and the Palo Alto Daily News and an occasional contributor to the New York Times.

Magid also hosts three popular websites: PCAnswer.com, SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com.

Prior to ConnectSafely.org, Magid authored several Internet safety guides including, Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and he is co-author, along with Anne Collier, of MySpace Unraveled: A parent’s guide to teen social networking (Peachpit Press, 2006).

He’s written for Fortune, Family Circle, PC World, Information Week, ComputerWorld and numerous other publications. He’s been a guest on several national and local broadcast shows throughout the country, including The Larry King Show, CBS’ Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, TechTV and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

He’s a board member of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise.org and the Family Online Safety Institute and served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force in 2008.

Magid has a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He resides in Palo Alto, California, where he helped raise two digital natives.