Mr. Kamensky is a senior fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government where he is passionate about creating a government that is results-oriented, performance-based, customer-driven, and collaborative in nature. He sees recent advances in technology as playing a major role in making this happen in coming years, and blogs on the management challenges facing the next President at: www.transition2008.wordpress.com.

Prior to joining the IBM Center, he had a significant role in helping pioneer the federal government's performance and results orientation. He served for eight years as deputy director of Vice President Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. Before that, he worked at the Government Accountability Office where he played a key role in the development and passage of the Government Performance and Results Act.

Mr. Kamensky received a Masters in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at: john.kamensky@us.ibm.com.

Cyrus Krohn is director of the Republican National Committee's eCampaign Division. He joined the RNC following two years at Yahoo! as director of content production and election strategy. Prior to Yahoo!, Krohn spent 10 years at Microsoft. He was Slate.com’s first employee and then publisher while the webzine was owned by Microsoft. Krohn also managed the political advertising efforts for MSN.com, the Microsoft Network, and was executive producer at MSN Video. Krohn worked in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau producing Larry King Live and Crossfire and served as an intern for Vice President Dan Quayle.

Dr. Daniel Laughlin received his Ph.D. in Education from American University in 2001. His area of focus was information technology in education and he did research in cognitive science experimenting with methods to explicitly teach critical and scientific thinking skills. Before joining the Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center in 2002, Dr. Laughlin taught for fourteen years at a number of institutions including American, Loyola and Villanova Universities. From 1997 to 2002, he taught pre-service and in-service teachers to use computers and the Internet in their own classroom.

Dr. Laughlin is currently the NASA Learning Technologies Project manager at Goddard Space Flight Center. NLT supports the research and development of cutting-edge educational tools that combine NASA mission content with innovative technology and best teaching practices. The office has sponsored the development of tools that have been featured on the covers of science and technology magazines and receive international recognition for their contributions to learning. NLT is primarily focused on the research and development of educational immersive synthetic environments and leads the games research effort for NASA's Education Office. Dr. Laughlin's research interests include information technology management, cognitive science, educational technologies and the use of computer and video games as educational tools. He is co-author of the NASA eEducation Roadmap: Research Challenges in the Design of Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments for Education & Training (2007).

Geoff has worked as a marketing strategist in the Washington, DC region for 14 years. Dubbed a "local blogging guru" by the Washington Post, Geoff's Buzz Bin blog is nationally recognized, and is the top ranked marketing blog in the Washington, DC region. He successfully launched FortiusOne's GeoCommons using an aggressive social media strategy, and marketed Godsmack lead singer Sully Erna's bio using a diversified My Space and blogosphere campaign. Geoff's book on new media "Now is Gone" will be released on October 1 by Bartleby Press.

He creates marketing strategy, media relations, branding and Internet marketing campaigns for public and private organizations. Some of his experiences include work for AT&T, the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bartleby Books, BEA Systems, Hughes Network Systems, ManTech, the Washington Nationals, Intelsat, Verizon Wireless and many others.

Cited as a “Master of Next” by Small Business Technology magazine, Mike is the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, as well as a founder of Toronto’s mesh conference. FreshBooks’ is a painless billing service for professionals. It delights over 230,000 people who use it to track their time and mange their invoices over the web. FreshBooks believes it is a service, not a technology. It is made for people, by people. Accordingly the company is proud to offer outstanding attentive - yet casual - support by telephone, forums and email. We’ve been doing it day in and day out since May 2004.

FreshBooks is based in Toronto Canada, and Mike would rather be outdoors that indoors.

Janice R. Nall, Director of the Division of eHealth Marketing at the National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/HHS, is responsible for leading CDC's communication technology efforts. Janice joined CDC/NCHM in 2005 and manages www.cdc.gov and CDC’s other e-health and new media initiatives.

Formerly Manager of the Usability Solutions Group at the General Services Administration's (GSA) Office of Electronic Government and Technology, Janice was responsible for increasing the usability of U. S. Government websites and other communication technologies by providing policy, guidance, tools, resources, and training to federal Web developers and communicators. Janice joined GSA in 2003 and led the development of a cross-Agency usability program that included the Usability University program (now known as Web Manager University), the U-Group E-newsletter, and various usability tools, resources, and publications.

In March 2003, Janice was honored as one of Federal Computer Week's Federal 100 – the top executives from government, industry, and academia who had the greatest impact on the government information systems community in 2002. In 2001, Janice received the NIH Director’s Merit Award for "extraordinary leadership in the field of communication technologies."

Prior to working with GSA, Janice served as Chief of the Communication Technologies Branch (CTB) for the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was responsible for usability, accessibility, emerging technologies, graphic design, and other user interface issues for NCI's communication technology products and services. During her 8 years at NCI, Janice led the development of several new usability initiatives including the Usability.gov Web site, the Research-based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, the Communication Technologies Research Center (CTRC), the Usability Seminar Series and Training Program, and various other tools, resources, and publications.

Dr. Brand Niemann is a Senior Enterprise Architect in the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency. His work on EPA and Interagency data architecture to facilitate electronic information sharing was recognized by Federal Computer Week in its 2006 Power Player Series Special Report and recently at the Gartner Spring Enterprise Architecture Summit Conference. In his 27 year government career he has been asked by senior government leadership to: (1) Chair the CIO Council's Web Services Working Group; (2) Serve on the Federal Enterprise Architecture/OMB Solution Architects Working Group and the Data Reference Model (DRM) 1.0 Team; (3) Co-Chair the CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP); (4) Lead the Federal Enterprise Architecture/OMB DRM 2.0 Implementation Through Testing and Iteration Team; (5) Co-Chair the Federal SOA CoP; and (6) Serve as the Secretariat of the CIO Council's Best Practices Committee. He was recently recognized for "exemplary work as Secretariat of the Best Practices Committee," by CIO Council Director Karen Evans, Director, and Vice Chair David Wennergren. Brand is a recognized leader in the use of communities of practice (CoP) supported by Wiki technology to develop service systems and serves as Co-Chair of both the Federal Service-Oriented Architecture CoP and the Federal Semantic Interoperability CoP. He has received special recognitions and awards from the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the US Geological Survey, LOTUS Best Application, ComputerWorld-Smithsonian Innovation Competition, Vice President Gore's Hammer Award, OMB and the Quad Council, the Council for Excellence in Government, the Architecture & Infrastructure Committee, the Best Practices Committee, and the American Council for Technology and Its Industry Advisory Council.

Steve Orrin is Director of Security Solutions, for SSG's SPI group at Intel, Corp. and is responsible for Security Platforms Architecture and Security strategy and product direction. Steve joined Intel as part of the acquisition of Sarvega, Inc. where he was their CSO. Steve was formerly Vice President of Security Solutions for Watchfire, Inc. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software, and came to Watchfire through an acquisition of Sanctum. Prior to joining Sanctum, Steve was CTO and co-founder of LockStar, Inc. LockStar provided enterprises with the means to secure and XML/WebService enable legacy mainframe and enterprise applications for e-business. Orrin joined LockStar from SynData Technologies, Inc. where he was CTO and chief architect of their desktop e-mail and file security product.

Steve was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and is a recognized expert and frequent lecturer on enterprise security. He has spoken at RSA, ISACA conferences, N+I, TEPR, Vanguard, IDF, AFEI and SANS conferences. He has also developed several patent-pending technologies covering user authentication, secure data access and steganography and one issued patent in steganography. Steve has helped implement security processes and procedures and implemented risk mitigation, monitoring and remediation solutions for banking/brokerage firms, healthcare and clinical trials institutions, insurance, manufacturing, entertainment and high-tech companies and both federal and state government.

Steve holds an honors degree in research biology from Kean University and is published in several scientific and medical journals. Orrin is a member of the Network and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA), the Computer Security Institute (CSI), SEI (Software Engineering Institute), and is a co-Founder of WASC (Web Application Security Consortium) and a Co-Founder of the SafeSOA Taskforce. He participates in several OASIS, IETF and AFEI working groups.

Reed Overfelt is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Mural Ventures a specialized venture firm that focuses exclusively on software as a service (SaaS) strategy and execution.

Prior to joining Mural, Reed was the general manager of Microsoft Corporation's Mid-Atlantic Region. His organization is responsible for marketing and sales to small- and medium-sized companies located in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic states with annual revenues of $235 million. Reed created numerous innovative new businesses for Microsoft including the company's $1 billon worldwide hosting business.

A published writer, he has authored articles covering enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management. He is also a frequent commentator in radio, television and print interviews.

Prior to Microsoft, Overfelt served on Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review staff, co-leading the project that funded the development of the first Internet Web browser.

He grew up in central Montana where his father is a prominent attorney and mother is a retired Catholic schoolteacher. His late grandmother sailed with her Norwegian-born parents across the Atlantic in 1909 to homestead in the wide-open spaces of Montana. In 1992 she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.

Overfelt graduated from the University of Montana with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Master's of Public Administration. He currently serves on the University of Montana's College of Arts and Sciences Board of Advisors.

He is a self-proclaimed Gadget Geek.

Joe has over 10 years experience leading projects focused on communications strategy, organizational effectiveness, knowledge management, environmental health, and performance based management. He has consulted for a wide range of clients including public utilities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, industry associations, and the private sector and has work experience in 10 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. His current work focuses on helping clients design and implement intranets, extranets, web conferencing, and other online tools and services that support team collaboration. He holds a BS in Chemistry from Washington and Lee University and an MS from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina.

Mr. Chris Rasmussen is a knowledge manager and trainer within the US Intelligence Community (IC). Mr. Rasmussen believes that lightweight and inexpensive "social software" tools such as Intellipedia (wiki), blogs, tag connect (social bookmarking service), mashups, etc. provide a transparent and effective way to exchange knowledge over the IC enterprise. These tools, in agency-neutral space, have considerable advantages over exceedingly complex databases and applications often with opaque data access layers isolated within agency footprints. In addition to social software, Mr. Rasmussen argues for the increased use of podcasts/vodcasts and videogame-based learning for knowledge transfer across the IC enterprise. Mr. Rasmussen is also an evangelist for the increased use of "open source intelligence" - that gleaned from public documents, databases, blogs, videos, radio broadcasts, newspapers and discussion boards - with in the IC.

David K. Rathbun spent twelve years as a systems analyst and user interface designer. He has designed software, collaborative technologies, and websites for Federal government agencies, nonprofits, and mortgage underwriter Fannie Mae. Mr. Rathbun is an expert in user analysis and stakeholder engagement. Most recently, Mr. Rathbun spent two years working for Dare Mighty Things, Inc. (DMT), a management consulting firm that specializes in building the capacity of nonprofit organizations. Working closely with DMT's program director, stakeholders, and IT contractors, Mr. Rathbun designed and developed collaborative technologies that streamline business processes, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among DMT staff, Federal clients, 400 nonprofit recipients of Federal grants, and thousands of partner organizations in three Federal programs.

As the chief security technologist for Enterprise Security Solutions, Mr. Rossman is responsible for information security technologies strategy and vision for the SAIC Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Apart from his various customer support and strategic planning activities, he is also leading two significant internal research and development projects centering on security related to service-oriented architectures and Web 2.0 collaboration tools.

Mr. Rossman is a co-founder of the SafeSOA initiative as well as a founding member of the Corporate Executive Programme within FIRST. He was recently honored as a finalist for the 2007 Information Security Executive of the Year (Mid Atlantic) award. A regular speaker at leading industry events internationally including FIRST, RSA, Mashup Camp, and TNNI where he shares his knowledge and insight on information assurance, emerging technologies, and social computing trends.

Jason Siegel is an accomplished web strategy and interface design expert. As a managing director and head of the Qorvis creative services group, Siegel manages and directs development of a wide range of interactive services for Qorvis clients. He has an exceptional record for great client service with expertise in Information Architecture, Branding, Interface Design, Flash, Technology, Web Strategy, Content Management, Email marketing and Interactive Advertising . Prior to joining Qorvis, Siegel founded his own interactive agency, Internet Gravity, in 1998 grew the company’s clientele exponentially. He has produced, designed and built more than 300 websites for a variety of businesses and was selected by Yahoo as the nation’s best college web designer.

John R. Signorello has served as Chairman of the Board and CEO since March 2000. From 1991 until September 1997, Mr. Signorello served as the Chief Executive Officer of STMS -"Solutions That Make Sense" - a private technology company he founded that specialized in computer networks, systems integration and information technology.

In 1996, STMS was ranked the 17th fastest growing technology company in America by The National Technology Council The Fast Five Hundred. In September 1997, the company was acquired by Steelcloud (Nasdaq:SCLD), and Mr. Signorello remained as Vice President of Sales and Marketing until November 1998.

From 1998 through 2000, Mr. Signorello served as a Director for a publicly traded Internet Venture Fund. Mr. Signorello is an accomplished musician, and serves as a principal in New York City Lights Entertainment. Mr. Signorello received a B.B.A. in Marketing from Radford University in 1989.

Michael is president and founder of TeraTech, a 18-year-old Rockville, Maryland based consulting company that specializes in ColdFusion web application development for large socially conscious organizations. TeraTech is an Adobe Consulting Partner and winner of the CFDJ award for best consulting company five years in a row. Michael has been programming for over 25 years and has been coding in ColdFusion since version 1.5. He leads the Fusebox open source project that is used by over 10,000 developers worldwide. He writes for the ColdFusion Developer Journal and runs the CF Bug Hunt and CF Conf websites for the programming community.

Michael runs the MDCFUG (Maryland ColdFusion User Group) and has spoken at more than thirty national and international programming conferences and events. He also runs the largest national ColdFusion conference, CFUNITED with over 900 attendees last year. He has an MA and BA from Cambridge University, England and graduated in the top 10 of his year. Michael volunteers at ByteBack, a non profit organization which provides computer training for unemployed and under-employed inner city residents. He has taught programming and methodologies at USDA, VOA, AOC and FDA.

Pete is the Founder and CEO of New Media Strategies, the industry pioneer and market leader in Online Intelligence and Word of Mouth marketing, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Drawing on his background as a nationally-known pollster and a media consultant, Pete founded New Media Strategies in 1999, and in doing so created an entirely new industry segment in market research, online marketing and communications. For the past three years in a row, New Media Strategies was named to the “Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America,” by Inc. Magazine. Proving that a company can focus on fast growth, profitability, and a winning corporate culture, both Washingtonian Magazine and Washington Business Journal twice named New Media Strategies as one of the area’s “Best Places to Work." Additionally, Pete was recently honored by Fortune Small Business for his innovative management-style when they named him “2006 Best Boss.”

Over the past seven years, Pete has guided New Media Strategies as CEO, building a blue-chip client base that features some of the best known brands and corporations in the world, including among others: ABC, AOL Time Warner, Atari, Boston Beer Company, Burger King Corporation, Coca-Cola, CBS, Disney, Dodge, EA, Ford Motor Company, HBO, Jeep, Levi’s, McDonald’s, Northwest Airlines, Paramount Pictures, PepsiCo, RCA Records, Red Bull, Reebok, Revlon, Sci-Fi Channel, Sony, USA Network, and Wyeth. NMS’ record of real results for our clients speaks for itself, for in 2006 NMS helped market twenty two feature films that hit the top spot at the box office.

National media have taken notice. Ad Age, Ad Week, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Variety, Brandweek,The Hollywood Reporter, Businessweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Daily News, The New York Times , The South China Post, The Syd- ney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, The Wash- ington Post, and Washington Business Journal have covered Pete and New Media Strategies. Additionally, Pete was named as one of the “Quotes of the Year” by ESPN’s Sports Guy, Bill Simmons.

A former political media consultant and a pollster to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Pete regularly appears as a commentator on the Fox News Channel and has served as a marketing and political expert on CNBC, The News with Brian Williams, the CBS Evening News, Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, Hannity and Colmes and Fox and Friends.

Mr. Sparrow joined the Newseum in 1999 as the executive producer and was responsible for overseeing all media content created for the Newseum. This includes interactive kiosks, exhibit videos, online exhibits for the Web site, the video archives and all multi-media development for the new Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue. In addition he was the executive producer on several broadcast documentaries created by the Newseum, including Holocaust: The Untold Story which was nominated for a national Emmy award in the historical documentary category. He was also the executive producer for World@Large, a ten part series hosted by David Gergen for public television. Recent Newseum video productions have been honored with many awards, including two Grand Prizes at the New York Film and Video Festival, three Golden Muse awards from the American Association of Museums, and five CINE Golden Eagles. The Newseum’s Web site has also earned national recognition for its online exhibits, and was twice nominated for a Webby Award. In September of 2006 he became vice president and now oversees the programs and education departments as well as all media production.

Paul began his career in 1980 as a documentary film maker in San Francisco, producing films on the elephant seal, and on human dolphin communication. Both films aired on public television. Mr. Sparrow then joined the staff at KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, where he worked as an editor and producer on a number of award winning documentaries and local programs. In 1988 he moved to Washington D.C. and was senior producer for USA TODAY ON TV, a daily syndicated news show based on the newspaper. Mr. Sparrow then became the Co-Executive Producer for America’s Most Wanted for six years. He championed the search for missing children, and was awarded the U. S. Marshals Service Director’s Award for his work there. In 1996 he moved to Los Angeles and became the executive producer for The Learning Channel’s prime time series How’d They Do That? In 1998 he returned to the Washington area to produce the Discovery Channel’s Eco-Challenge: Morocco miniseries. While on location he supervised a production staff of 110 people and captured the experiences of adventure racers as they traversed 300 miles of wilderness. This program won a national Emmy for special achievement. During his long career Mr. Sparrow has produced more than 300 hours of prime time programming for broadcast and cable networks, and several hundred hours of syndicated news and information programs.

Born and raised in New York, Mr. Sparrow earned a BA in music composition from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a MFA from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. He is married with a young daughter, and currently lives in Bethesda, MD.

Stephenson is a leading homeland security, e-government, and crisis management strategist and theorist. In addition to work for his own firm, he is a "subject matter expert" for the Homeland Security Institute, and an on-call expert for James Lee Witt Associates, a leading disaster management firm.

He created the "Pandemic Flu Survival Guide" as well as the "Terrorist Survival" suite of programs, which put all the information necessary to prepare for and/or respond to a terrorist attack in easy-to-use data bases for handheld devices.

Stephenson particularly concentrates on how to use Web 2.0 devices and applications, especially those that foster neighborhood-based and online social networks to transform the public's role in government services as well as terrorism and disaster preparation and response from passive recipients to full partners and valuable information sources.

Stephenson was speechwriter and press secretary to former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and had an award-winning career in crisis management prior to entering the homeland security field.

Dave runs the National Physical Laboratory's Virtual Worlds business, and is a founder of the SciLands, a Second Life continent for Science and technology. He has managed many social media projects including 'Second Health', a virtual hospital to engage clinician and patient communities. Dave also works with an informal cross-Department group examining the use of 'Serious Games' and virtual worlds by UK Government.

Prior to joining NPL Dave was Vice President of Global Web for a leading multinational. He previously managed Letraset's European Software business and worked with Adobe Systems, Pixar and Apple Computer after developing an award-winning graphics software product.

Dave has a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Psychology. In Second Life he is known as Davee Commerce and his blog can be found at http://www.nanodave.com

With more than 15 years of marketing, product management, and business development experience, Mr. Tejada joined Akamai in March 2007 as part of the Netli acquisition. At Akamai, he is responsible for the Application Performance Solutions product line targeted at optimizing the delivery of enterprise applications over the Internet. A seasoned executive, Mr. Tejada has held various senior management positions in both start-up and large enterprise companies including Novell Inc., the pioneer in local area networking. At Novell he led marketing, product management, developer and strategic relations organizations. An accomplished communicator and presenter, Mr. Tejada is an inventor listed on US Patent 6,078,924 and also the author of Facilitating Competitive Intelligence: The Next Step in Internet-Based Research published in CRC Press's "Best Practices Series" in Internet Management.

Joe Trippi, heralded on the cover of The New Republic as the man who "reinvented campaigning," was born in California and began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1980. His work in presidential politics continued with the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean.

As a campaign manager, Trippi has run presidential, Senate, gubernatorial and mayoral campaigns. He was selected by former Vice President Walter Mondale to manage Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses in 1984 and later went on to run several key states for the Mondale for President campaign. In 1988, Trippi was the Deputy National Campaign Manager for Richard Gephardt's presidential campaign.

Gary Vaynerchuk, the star of Wine Library TV, is Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ. Gary's love affair with wine began at a young age when he started reading Robert Parker and Wine Advocate and blossomed over the years as he traveled around the world to various wine-producing regions (his wife remains blissfully unaware of this affair). But it troubled Gary to observe the stuffiness of the industry-conceited sommeliers, snobby shopkeepers unwilling (or unable) to educate their consumers, and seemingly mystical conventions all combine to make wine seem intimidating to the uninitiated. Wine Library TV seeks to change all that. Aimed at anyone interested in truly learning about wine, from beginners to experts, young (above 21 of course) to old, Gary and the WLTV community embrace the notion that wine can be enjoyed by all.

Raju is an evangelist for Zoho and has been revered by the media as one of the key players in the Office 2.0 revolution. He has worked for Zoho from its inception, and wears multiple hats stemming from manager of customer/community relations to technology visionary. Raju is one of the key people responsible for developing the strategic direction of the Zoho Office Suite. He is an avid blogger (see: blogs.zoho.com), and users of Zoho are encouraged to contact him directly.

Raju’s motto is, “The customer is at the core of every activity that we do at Zoho. It’s more than a saying, it’s put into action at Zoho.”

Prior to joining AdventNet, Raju co-founded an Internet services company serving the educational market. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Kate Walser is Director of SRA’s Knowledge and Collaboration Management Program, which works with organizations to foster interaction, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among stakeholders, both internal and external, whether employees, partners, or customers. Most recently, she’s been looking at how Web 2.0 technologies – blogs, wikis, podcasting, and social networks – as well as networked virtual environments including Second Life can promote enhanced user experiences and facilitate knowledge sharing goals.

Kate’s passion is a User Experience Designer as well, with ten years of experience working with federal, state, and commercial organizations to improve the overall user experience for all users. She established and leads the SRA Usability Center of Excellence, providing design and usability support across SRA for internal and external customers. Her experience includes emerging technology research to evaluate the impact of new technologies on the user’s experience, software and Web site design, and usability and accessibility testing.

Prior to SRA, Ms. Walser led the Usability Program in the AMS Center for Advanced Technologies. Ms. Walser has a Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering degree and an MBA with concentrations in Strategy and International Business.

David C. Wyld is the Robert Maurin Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he directs the College of Business' Strategic e-Commerce/e-Government Initiative. He is a noted speaker/consultant/writer, being a frequent contributor to both academic and industry publications. He is an expert on the use of Web 2.0 tools by executives and organizations for creating new communications forums. He is also the author of the recent research report, The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0. He is also a contributing editor to both Global Identification and RFID News. In 2006, he was named a Rising Star in Government Information Technology by Federal Computer Week.