Josh Clark

Current

• Developer, Designer and Chief Scientist at Global Moxie (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Editor & publisher of The Next Big Thing at Monitor Group
• Founder, Developer, Designer at Kicksports.com (Sole Proprietorship)
• Associate Producer at WGBH

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Education

• Harvard University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Manifesto

Josh Clark’s Summary

I make stuff for the web. Specifically, I make stuff that enables *you* to make stuff for the web. I dig helping creative people get clear of technical cruft so that they can share their interests, ideas and enterprises with the world.

I started building sites in 1994, interactive web apps in 1997, and since 2003, I've focused my efforts on Big Medium, a system that lets mere mortals edit websites without technical know-how.

Big Medium powers over 1000 websites. My customers have included big organizations like Gannett Company, the United Nations, the European Commission, Cornell Medical School, etc., and that's been terrific. But I'm especially delighted that the vast majority of people using Big Medium are little guys: small businesses, boutique design agencies, nonprofits, community newspapers, church groups and individuals with something to say.

What I did before all this: I was born in 1971, grew up in Minnesota (too cold) and North Carolina (that's better), and graduated in 1991 from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I started out in TV, working on a slew of national PBS programs at Boston's WGBH. I shared my three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, talked torture with Attica prisoners and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. After 'GBH, I covered the (first) dot-com boom as editor of The Next Big Thing, an online magazine published by The Monitor Group.

Along the way, I created several sites, including a bunch of minisites for PBS. In 1996, I created a popular website for runners called "Kick!" at kicksports.com, which eventually merged with Cool Running. You can still find my training articles there, including the wildly popular "Couch to 5K" program for new runners. I still run, and I still love it, but alas, I'm pretty lousy at it these days. Too much time in front of the keyboard?

Josh Clark’s Specialties:

Perl, content management, cms, Web design, design, blogging, information architecture, ia, usability, accessibility, social media, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Prototype.js, Docbook, XML

Josh Clark’s Experience

• Developer, Designer and Chief Scientist

  Global Moxie (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  January 2002 — Present (8 years )

  I'm the developer of Big Medium, the content management system aimed squarely at web designers. I make humane, friendly software to help creative people do their thing.

• Editor & publisher of The Next Big Thing

  Monitor Group

  (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  May 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 8 months)

  Conceived and created a new online magazine covering online business and strategy, managed a staff of 30 writers, editors, and illustrators. Folded up the operation with the collapse of the (first) dot-com bubble and more than a little trouble with our content-management vendor. I became convinced that web content management should be *much* easier, and a new mission was born.

• Founder, Developer, Designer

  Kicksports.com (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  1996 — 2001 (5 years )

  Created a comprehensive website and community for runners at Kick! (kicksports.com). The whole fandango was acquired by Cool Running, now part of the Active.com network.

• Associate Producer

  WGBH

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Media Production industry)

  1992 — 1999 (7 years )

  Created historical and business documentaries for The American Experience and national Public Television. Along the way, for one fun and all-too-brief summer of nonstop trivia questions, I was head writer for a prime-time game show on PBS.

Josh Clark’s Education

• Harvard University

  B.A. , Government , 1988 — 1991

  I was executive news editor of the Harvard Independent. Alas, education is wasted on the young. I liked Harvard but wish I had taken more time to get as much out of it as I could have. I was incredibly impatient to get out of school to get to work and start *making* things, and I hustled through Harvard in three years.

  Activities and Societies:

  Harvard Independent

Additional Information

Josh Clark’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Manifesto

Josh Clark’s Interests:

Content management, social media, web development, design, cooking, running, travel

Josh Clark’s Groups:

•    Harvard Independent Alumni

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