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David
Weinberger Stomach-Churning, Full o' Hype Overview - NOW with Truthy Popups! Hover over text that's underlined in this section to peel back the hype and see the whole story.
The Wall Street Journal called him a "marketing guru." He's the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about. His next book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined has been published to rave reviews hailing it as the first book to put the Internet in its deepest context. His latest book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, which has been called "an instant classic", explains how the new rules for organizing ideas and information are transforming business and culture. He's been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He's written for the "Fortune 500" of business and tech journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Guardian, and Wired. Journalists from The New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, InformationWeek, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and many more turn to him for insight. He is a columnist for Knowledge Management World and il sole 24 ore, and writes an influential business technology newsletter and a well-known daily weblog, Joho the Blog. He was a philosophy professor for six years, a comedy writer for Woody Allen's comic strip for seven years, a humor columnist, a dot-com entrepreneur before most people knew what a home page was, and a strategic marketing consultant to household-name multinationals and the most innovative startups. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is currently a Fellow at the prestigious Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also one of the most entertaining and acclaimed presenters around. Dr. David Weinberger turns this remarkable range of experience and knowledge to the most important question facing every business today: How is technology changing the way my employees, partners and customers are putting themselves together, and how is that changing the basics of my business...and beyond. Dr. Weinberger began his "career" in the late '70s teaching philosophy at New Jersey's Stockton State College for five years. (He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.) During this time he maintained his steady freelance writing of humor, reviews and intellectual and academic articles, publishing in places as diverse as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Smithsonian, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and TV Guide. In 1985, after being denied tenure because the tenure quota was filled, and after an enthusiastic but well-mannered student demonstration in his support, he became a junior marketing guy at Interleaf, an innovative start-up with new ideas on how to create and structure documents. At Interleaf he helped launch the industry's first document management system and its first electronic document publishing system, years ahead of the Web. He left Interleaf after 8 years, as VP of Strategic Marketing. He founded the one-person strategic marketing company, Evident Marketing, in 1994. He has consulted to a wide variety of companies, including RR Donnelley, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Edelman PR, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the Christopher Reeve Foundation. He frequently advises innovative startups. In late 1995, he joined Open Text as VP of Strategic Marketing because he saw an opportunity to help shape the way intranets are used. As part of the senior management team, Dr. Weinberger helped Open Text move from one of the first Web search engine companies (the engine behind Yahoo!) to market- and thought-leadership in Web-based collaborative software. After helping to take Open Text public in 1996, Dr. Weinberger returned to consulting, writing and speaking, helping to found a couple of dot-coms, and serving on industry and company boards. In 2000, Perseus published The Cluetrain Manifesto, of which is is a co-author. It became a national best-seller. In 2002, Perseus published Small Pieces Loosely Joined to enthusiastic reviews. In 2007, Times Books published Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Dr. Weinberger currently writes too much, including weblogs, articles for Wired, Salon, USAToday, Harvard Business Review, and many more. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean campaign, consulting on Internet policy. He was a policy adviser to the John Edwards campaign in 2008. In 2004 he was made a Fellow at Harvard's prestigious Berkman Institute for Internet & Society, where he's very happy. Education Dr. Weinberger earned his doctor of philosophy in philosophical studies at the University of Toronto. His undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, with honors, is from Bucknell University. Speaking Dr. Weinberger speaks around the world on the effect of the Web. He is consistently rated very highly as a speaker. Writing Dr. Weinberger has been writing and publishing in national magazines for over 25 years. He has been a technical columnist for a computer magazine, a humor columnist for Oregon's largest newspaper, and a gag writer for Woody Allen's comic strip for seven years. His online newsletter, JOHO, has an influential following which appreciates its insight and its humor. He is one of the authors of the best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto and is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. He is a columnist for KMWorld and il sole 24 ore, Italy's leading financial paper. He is a frequent commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now." He is working on a book (Times Books, spring 2007) titled Everything is Miscellaneous about how the new ways we organize information now that it's gone digital is changing the shape, authority and business of knowledge. He blogs way too much. Here is a list of recent publications. Honors and Boards Dr. Weinberger has served on the AIIM Emerging Technology Advisory Group, the Seybold Conference Advisory Board, the World Congress of Philosophy Advisory Board, the Virtual Business advisory board, and the Xplor Business Strategies Advisory Board. He has served on product and advisory Boards of well-known organizations such as Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Christopher Reeve Foundation, as well as smaller, innovative companies such as Technorati, Metacarta, The Information Architecture Association, Corante, BlogBridge, The Conversation Network, SocialText, and Global Voices. In 2004 he was made a Fellow at Harvard's prestigious Berkman Institute for Internet & Society. Personal Dr. Weinberger lives in the Boston area with his wife and three children where he is made uncomfortable by writing about himself in the third person. |
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