Brian Kerr

Current

Moving part at Different Chairs

Past

Human-internet duct tape (Sole Proprietorship)
Grad student / dilettante at U-M School of Information
CommunityGrants Administration at Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation

Technology Administrator at NEW
Analyst at Registrar's Office, University of Michigan
Blogger at ArborUpdate.com
Web developer at School of Social Work, University of Michigan

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Education

University of Michigan - School of Information
University of Michigan

Recommended

3 people have recommended Brian

Connections

158 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Brian Kerr’s Summary

Brian Kerr’s Specialties:

aggregation, communication, community facilitation, content management system intervention, different chairs, disintermediation, distributed collective action, Django, immediast, information design, iteration, navigation design, open space tech, Python, social facilitation, social network analysis, universal access, universal design, weblog, wiki

Brian Kerr’s Experience

Moving part

Different Chairs

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

February 2008 — Present (6 months)

Making things. Currently doing a deep dive into Django, the 'web framework for perfectionists with deadlines,' to deliver a few client sites. These folks need web sites and applications that fit their businesses like comfortable gloves in a Michigan winter.
Human-internet duct tape
Sole Proprietorship

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

April 2007 — January 2008 (10 months)

A variety of techno-social-network-media integrations.

Toolkit tag cloud: content management systems, social networks (Facebook platform, advertising ecosystems), and whatever else it took to get the job done.

Client industry tag cloud: internet marketing, nonprofit management support, nonprofit social service, social media + networking, various pithy startups.

A highlight for me was helping organize and facilitate ArbCamp, a one-day open space event held in October 2007. For the 100+ people who participated, I think it gave a taste of what things could be like here if we were just a little better connected and if we had just a little stronger and more readily available infrastructures to build on.
Grad student / dilettante

U-M School of Information

(Educational Institution; Civic & Social Organization industry)

September 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 8 months)
CommunityGrants Administration

Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

July 2006 — January 2007 (7 months)
Technology Administrator

NEW

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)
Analyst

Registrar's Office, University of Michigan

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

June 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 8 months)
Blogger

ArborUpdate.com

(Online Media industry)

November 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Web developer

School of Social Work, University of Michigan

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2000 — April 2001 (8 months)

Brian Kerr’s Education

University of Michigan - School of Information

MSI, human-computer interaction, universal design, 2005 — 2007

Activities and Societies:

Community Information Corps Student Group (for students doing/seeking public interest computing work), Cofounder: Small Things Loosely Connected (student organization supporting free software development)
University of Michigan

BA, English, 1999 — 2001

I was an undergraduate. I figured out what I wanted to not do with my life. I fell in love. And, like a tiny, fragile duckling, I appear to have imprinted on the city of Ann Arbor.