
Expertise in KM & Collaboration, Online Community Services, Background in Marketing & General Management
San Francisco Bay Area

Expertise in KM & Collaboration, Online Community Services, Background in Marketing & General Management
San Francisco Bay Area
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I am a Web Applications Specialist
My professional passion is helping teams and organizations use networks (internet, intranet, social or knowledge networks) to connect, collaborate and become more productive.
I have been 'online' since 1980 using collaboration, social networking and virtual community services. I've been creating interactive services - public and private - since 1984.
I bring a practical business perspective to planning and creating web services - they are enabled by cool technology, but, they are more fundamentally about the goals of the organization hosting them and the value target audiences get from them.
Applying interactive technology to business needs
Virtual communities, customer and partner communities
Team collaboration, collaborative tools, document management,
Communities of practice (CoPs), knowledge management, collaborative environments, managing unstructured data
Tools include: blogs, Google Apps, instant messaging, open source collaborative platforms, Sharepoint, Webex - web conferencing, wikis,
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1998 — Present (10 years 9 months)
Web 2.0 Strategist
I plan and manage Web 2.0 solutions - communities, collaboratiion facilities or knowledge systems - that compliment and catalyze business models. I will ...
- Plan Web 2.0 strategy that supports business goals
- Lead development of technical and process requirements
- Integrate Web 2.0 plans with business timelines
- Coach project manager or executives through implementation or
- Manage selection, configuration, deployment of system
My approach includes ...
- focus on the relationships to which interactive technology is being applied versus the technology's functionality.
- Interactive functionality must be tightly coupled with content and support resources to create interactive _Services_ that achieve the business' goals.
- Inconspicuous factors that undermine online services must be highlighted and managed. Ask me about what these factors are.
Major projects and clients are listed below.
MBA , 1979 — 1981
BA , Chemistry
(Columbia College)