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Today, Douglas Miller, Global Privacy Leader of AOL Inc., was announced as Board Chair for The Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) 2013-2015 Board of Directors and new Executive Committee. Douglas Miller will serve a two-year term on the Executive Committee to drive the NAI's continued evolution in self-regulation.

The entire NAI Board of Directors is comprised of 12 member-elected privacy and digital media veterans. This group will work closely with Marc Groman, Executive Director and General Counsel, along with the entire staff to work towards the organization's mission of drafting, creating and overseeing the self-regulation of the third-party online ad industry through enforceable standards and ongoing compliance efforts.

The NAI board members on the Executive Committee include:

• Board Chair: Douglas Miller, Vice President and Global Policy Leader, AOL Inc.
• Vice Chair: Alan Chapell, Outside Counsel, Privacy Officer, BlueKai
• Treasurer: Shane Wiley, Vice President, Privacy and Data Governance, Yahoo!
• Secretary: Noga Rosenthal, Senior VP and General Counsel, 24/7 Media and Media Innovation Group

Additional returning and newly appointed NAI board members include:

• Chief Executive Officer: Michael Benedek, Datonics
• Chief Privacy Officer: Jason Bier, ValueClick
• Policy Counsel: Will DeVries, Google
• Chief Privacy Officer: Brooks Dobbs, KBM Group and I-Behavior
• General Counsel: Matthew Haies, AppNexus
• General Counsel: Alan Koslow, AudienceScience
• Chief Operating Officer: Andrew Pancer, Media6Degrees
• Legal Director: Estelle Werth, Criteo

To learn more about NAI's Board of Directors, click here.

Following its acquisition by AOL in February, gdgt has combined forces with Engadget and rebranded gdgt Live, its successful consumer event series. The new event series will be called Engadget+gdgt Live, a much-needed platform for technology brands to meet face-to-face with hard-to-reach tech enthusiasts, show off their latest products and services, and get key feedback from this influential, but hard-to-reach community.

Each gdgt Live event is a unique opportunity for companies to build relationships with today's technology tastemakers. Since the first event in 2009, gdgt Live has become an integral element in the consumer marketing strategy of some of the world's biggest technology companies. In just the last year industry leaders like Belkin, HP, HTC, Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, Motorola, NETGEAR, Olympus, Sony, Speck, T-Mobile, TiVo, Western Digital and many others have participated in multiple events. gdgt Live has held 21 events seven across cities.

The events have been attended by over 20,000 consumers as well journalists from virtually all the leading technology publications, including ARS Technica, CNET, CNN, Engadget, Gizmodo, Mashable, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, TechMeme, The New York Times, TWiT, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Wired, and lots more. gdgt Live has also played host to some of the country's hottest consumer tech startups including Aviary, Backupify, Boxee, Bug Labs, Connected Data, Gazelle.com, Kobo, MakerBot, Sifteo, Simple TV, Sphero, and many more.

Engadget will be promoting the events on the site and through social media channels, and the Engadget editors are creating a new conference program for the next event in New York in June. From there, Engadget+gdgt Live events will visit San Diego, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco. The 2014 schedule will kick off with the first-ever Engadget+gdgt Live event at CES in January.

For more information on the 2013 Engadget+gdgt Live tour visit events.gdgt.com.

I'm excited to announce that Abigail Hart Gray is joining the AOL Services team as our new Head of Design. Reporting to me and working closely with leadership across the AOL family, she will lead the alignment of an evolving vision for our products with cutting edge designs and emerging technologies.

She is joining us from Fluid, a digital design agency, where she led the experience design group and was a member of the company's management team. Her background also includes interactive design tenures with leading agencies HUGE, R/GA and Digitas.

Abigail has distinct abilities to translate data and insights into functional design, in addition to her exceptional leadership skills. We will look to Abigail to be a driving force in helping AOL Services rethink the way our audiences rapidly embrace new forms of information, interact with content, their communities and their social graph.

To learn more about AOL's products and services, click here.

This activation will be featured on the newly redesigned Cambio site that includes many innovative features such as responsive design, continuous scroll, extra large multi-platform video display and a simplified approach to content delivery, making the site user friendly on all devices.

The "blue" carpet will be live streamed on Cambio and AOL at 6:30pm ET and the backstage live stream kicks off at 8:00pm ET. Don't miss any of the action, click here for Cambio's coverage of the Billboard Music Awards.

Monster Help Day is back! Today, AOL is embarking on its fourth Monster Help Day whereby over 2,000 employees will be supporting 54 volunteer projects across 21 offices worldwide. Monster Help Day, which started in honor of AOL's 25^th birthday, (we are now 28!) enables employees to step away from their busy working lives and give back to the communities around them.

Employees will engage in a variety of different service activities including Hurricane Sandy Disaster response cleanup, painting wall-sized canvases for hospitals and even reading to elementary school children in underserved schools to promote early literacy. The day of service AOLers are doing will total roughly 10,000 hours of community service.

One of our core values at AOL is that we are in the business of helping people, period. And although AOL employees demonstrate this value each and every day, they take it one step further on Monster Help Day.

The charities are in the communities in which our offices are located, as well as near and dear to our employees' hearts. Visit the Monster Help Day website to learn more about AOL's Monster Help Day and the charities we are working with.

AOL celebrates our 28th birthday with the fourth #MonsterHelpDay aol.it/12y0Vss

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) May 16, 2013