David Weinberger |
"ORGware's ability to let conversations spawn new conversations in a fractal way is a very promising approach to the traditional stumbling block to building a movement of engaged equals. Without a tool like ORGware, conversations don't scale."
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 and within two years counted among his clients a wide variety of companies, including RR Donnelley, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 and CSC Index.
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.
Dr. Weinberger currently writes too much, including 3 weblogs, articles for Wired, Salon, USAToday, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, and many more. He is working on another book that he doesn't want to talk about yet.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean campaign, consulting on Internet policy.
In 2004 he was made a Fellow at Harvard's prestigious Berkman Institute for Internet & Society.
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, and SocialText and Open Resource Group.
In 2004 he was made a Fellow at Harvard's prestigious Berkman Institute for Internet & Society.