Honorary Senior Fellows
July 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Dan Farber is vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor in chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet’s worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused sites. Prior to joining ZDNet, Dan served as vice president and editor-in-chief at Ziff-Davis’ flagship computing news publications, PC Week and MacWeek. He was also a founding editor at MacWorld and part of the editorial staffs of PC World and PC Magazine.
Charles Grantham is a co-founder of the Work Design Collaborative and the Future of Work program. Charlie has spent more than twenty years studying and writing about the future of work. He is also the founder and chief scientist of the Institute for the Study of Distributed Work, based in Prescott, Arizona, where he manages an extensive applied research program focused on the emergence of the electronic workplace. He is recognized as an international expert on the design of information and organizational systems that support these new forms of work. Charlie received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland. He also holds degrees in Psychology and Urban Economics from the University of Maryland. He has published five books and more than a dozen technical articles in fields ranging from computer science to psychiatry. His latest book is Consumer Evolution, released in late 2002. He is also the author of The Future of Work, published in 1999.
Shel Israel writes and speaks about blogging, communications, marketing and innovation. He also consults start ups as a senior strategy and communications advisor. He is co-author of Naked Conversations, How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers , (Wiley 24.95 USD) with Microsoft’s Robert Scoble. He is working on a second book regarding start ups and serves as editor-in-chief of Conferenza Premium Reports, the leading newsletter covering technology industry executive conferences. A self-proclaimed recovering publicist, Israel spent more than 20 years as a public relations executive specializing in technology start ups. Among more than 100 companies he worked with in early phases are the development organizations for Sun Microsystems, SoundBlaster, PowerPoint, Filemaker, MapInfo, Virtual Vineyards and very briefly, Napster. Visit his personal blog and website.
Steve King is a partner of Emergent Research, and Senior Advisor to the Institute for the Future (IFTF). His current research is focused on understanding how the Internet, new media and social networks are impacting marketing and communications. Steve has more than 25 years of industry and consulting experience. He has held a number of corporate executive, general management, and marketing positions including vice president of corporate marketing for Macromedia, vice president and general manager Asia-Pacific for Lotus Development Corporation, and vice president of marketing for Isys Corporation. Steve has served on the fiduciary or advisory boards of more than a dozen companies, and has served as interim CEO for five early stage technology firms. Steve King holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business and a BS from the University of Richmond.
J.D. Lasica is one of the world’s leading authorities on citizens media and the personal media revolution. A writer, blogger and consultant, he is the co-founder and executive director of Ourmedia.org. His book about the personal media revolution is Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation (Wiley & Sons, May 2005). Author Lawrence Lessig said of “Darknet”: “There are few who see the future clearly, and even fewer who can explain what they see. This brilliant, beautifully written book sees, and explains.” J.D. was an editor at the Sacramento Bee for 11 years, has written articles about technology and culture for major publications, and headed up editorial teams at three startups. His articles are online here. He blogs at New Media Musings, Darknet and Social Media. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and media conferences.
James Ware is a cofounder of the Work Design Collaborative and the Future of Work program. He has more than 30 years experience in research, executive education, consulting and management, including five years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. A recognized expert in fostering collaborative inquiry that produces both learning and action, he has led more than a dozen sponsored research projects on topics such as electronic commerce channel strategies, web-enabling business processes, IT executive leadership and staff development, and building business performance scorecards. He was the lead author of The Search for Digital Excellence, (McGraw-Hill, 1998), an early compendium of ebusiness case studies demonstrating the impact of the Internet on business and society. Jim holds Ph.D., M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. He is currently chairman of the board of trustees of Heald College.
Jim Ylisela is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor. He spent ten years as consulting editor for The Chicago Reporter, an investigative monthly. His freelance work has appeared in Chicago magazine, Illinois Issues, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. Jim taught fulltime at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism for 13 years, and continues to teach there as an adjunct professor. As editorial director and publisher of the employee communications group at Lawrence Ragan Communications, Jim Ylisela nowe oversees conferences, workshops and teleseminars that educate communciations professionals. He also oversees the reporting and editing of seven Ragan publications, including The Ragan Report, Corporate Writer & Editor and Media Relations Report, and teaches workshops on communications.
Michael Wiley has been a leader in creating corporate strategy and fostering change through the innovative use of grassroots communication, leading-edge technology and new media applications for more than 15 years. His experience includes agency, association and global assignments as well as involvement with various Internet startups in the mid-nineties. Michael was recruited by GM in 1997 to help guide their burgeoning Internet/intranet efforts and was behind the development of one of the first personalized employee portals which was honored by CIO Magazine in 1999. In addition, he has developed new media and web-based programs to help GM improve both internal and external communications globally, including GMability.com, the GM Media Online, GMTV, and the GM FastLane Blog. He has been the recipient of various industry honors and awards and has been frequently quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, National Public Radio and others. Michael works at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.
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