Art: CreatureComforts Our Maven Expert for Art, CreatureComforts has a knack for spotting great design with a creative flourish. In her spare time, she'll fight for an end to world poverty and discrimination, offer help to those battling depression and mental illness, and provide assistance to women and children living in oppression.

Baby: thenewstayathomemom Babies need food, love, and a stylish set of strollers, cribs, toys, and clothing. We look to thenewstayathomemom for guidance on just where to find this stuff. She's an Oklahoman, a mother of one, a brain tumor survivor, a web 2.0 enthusiast, and a financial educator, all the while trying to be more sustainable

Beauty: palacinka Simone Dilinger shares her beauty expertise not only on her own site Palacinka.com but with the ThisNext community as well. With hundreds of beauty recommendations Palacinka "helps take the guesswork out of buying your next beauty product!"

Design: elmanco His name is Stefano and he's a designer and cool hunter from Cesena, Italy. We follow his amazing taste every day on ThisNext, and we think you should too. To find out even more about stuff he likes, read his opinions at his blog.

Eco-Friendly: figandsage Stancie Wilson is one half of two real life sisters who dig the more natural things in life. That's why she's our Eco-Friendly Maven Expert. She was green long before it became the trendy thing to do. And when the fad is over, she'll still be green. She'll be leading our Eco-Friendly community, too.

Fashion: StilettoJungle StillettoJungle is on the prowl in the online shopping jungle. When not leading ThisNext's fashion community, StilettoJungle is publishing the Stiletto Jungle, a shopping blog for fun, fashionable women long on style and short on free time. There you'll find tips, trends, online deals, and more with helpful links you can use to shop right now from your computer.

Gourmet: erin1231 Erin1231 is our Maven Expert for Gourmet. She's into spicy food, wine, travel, museums, foreign films, old timey things of any nature, Victorian, art deco, art nouveau, flea markets, old fabrics, history, graphic design, interior design, Europe, class, cigarette holders, eyeliner, lip gloss, and more.

Home Decor: shirleytemple Our Expert Maven in Home Decor, ShirleyTemple is a designer of jewelry, accessories, and superfluous-but-mandatory things. She seems to only be happy when either making or discovering things, taking them apart, mixing them up and putting them back together, and then doing it again just because.

Mens: Carametis Longtime Maven Carametis is our Maven Expert for all things Mens. A fan of designer jewelry, Italian fashion, bags, design, gifts, and watches, Carametis can tell you exactly what's going on in the mind of the ThisNext male. When not leading community on this site, he can be found managing his site Mekchoud.

Shoes: wellheeled One of our original Mavens wellheeled has now graduated to expert status with her fabulous shoe recommendations. By recommending peep toes, stilettos, boots, and maybe even some flats on ThisNext, wellheeled is just trying to fit her size 7 mediums into a narrow-minded world.