How to introduce David

How to introduce David

Rather than reading the stilted self-puffery we would produce, please weave something together in your own words that you think will make your audience comfortable with David's credibility and background.

Here are some facts - little nuggets of stilted self-puffery - that you might find useful:

Co-author of the best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto, which InformationWeek called the most important business book since Tom Peter's In Search of Excellence. The author of the critically-acclaimed Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web. The author of Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

He has a fellowship at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society

Has been published in a wide variety of journals, including Wired and Harvard Business Review many times, as well as in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, Salon, USA Today, the Boston Globe, The Guardian...even TV Guide.

Was Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean campaign and was an Internet policy advisor to the John Edwards 2008 campaign

Called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal

Is a strategic marketing consultant to big name companies, as well as to small, innovative ones.

Wrote gags for Woody Allen's comic strip for seven years

Has a Ph.D. in philosophy (from the Univ. of Toronto) and taught philosophy in college for 6 years

Has been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered

Writes a column for Knowledge Management World and Il Sole 24 ore

Is a well-known blogger (that is, writes a weblog)

Has been a dot-com entrepreneur and serves on the advisory boards of some well-known and some not-yet-known tech companies

Is frequently cited by national and international news media

Lives in Boston