Manny Hernandez is a nonprofit executive, social media consultant and diabetes advocate committed to connecting people touched by diabetes and raising diabetes awareness. He is the president of the Diabetes Hands Foundation (DHF), a nonprofit that runs two social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes.org (in English, started in March 2007) and EsTuDiabetes.org (in Spanish, started in August 2007). He has had LADA (a form of type 1 diabetes) since 2002 and has used an insulin pump since 2005. He has been a columnist for dLife.com since 2007.

In early 2008, Mr. Hernandez worked briefly for Ning, an online social networking company in Palo Alto. From 2000 to 2008, he worked in web product management, online community management, content management and search engine marketing in a number of companies, including Full Sail University, Quepasa.com, Earth911 and Pets911, and from 1996 to 2000, he worked for Procter & Gamble in Venezuela.

Mr. Hernandez earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. While attending Cornell, the Web bug bit him, and it hasn’t abandoned him since. He wrote "Ning for Dummies," which was published in April 2009 and collaborated on "Twitter For Marketing for Dummies," due to be published in the Fall of 2009. He is a recognized key opinion leader and speaker about diabetes and social media applied to nonprofits and Health 2.0.

You can find him on Twitter (@askmanny) and read his personal blog at www.askmanny.com.