Meetup.com Advisory Board
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Jim Cashel
- Chairman, Forum One Communications
Jim Cashel is Chairman of Forum One Communications, a DC-based web strategy firm. Jim has particular expertise in the design and use of online communities. Prior to Forum One Jim worked in technology, international relations and medicine.
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Steven Johnson
- Author
Steven has written four books about the intersection of technology, science, and popular culture, including Emergence and Mind Wide Open. He writes the "Emerging Technology" column for Discover Magazine.
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Kenneth Lerer
- Kenneth Lerer Associates
Mr. Lerer runs Kenneth Lerer Associates and is Chairman of the Board of the Public Theater in New York. He is formerly the Executive Vice President of AOL Time Warner and a founder of Robinson Lerer and Montgomery.
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Robert Putnam
- Harvard University
Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. He has written a dozen books, including the bestseller, Bowling Alone,a study of trends in social connectedness. He is working on strategies for building community in an increasingly diverse America.
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Ira Rosen
- CBS News
Ira Rosen is a producer for CBS News 60 Minutes. Before that he was senior producer of Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer. He has won 20 National Emmys, four Dupont Awards, two RFK Awards and a Peabody. He lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY with his wife and three children.
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Douglas Rushkoff
- NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
Rushkoff is the author of ten best-selling books in media, technology, and culture, translated to over 25 languages. They include Media Virus, Coercion, Cyberia, and Get Back in the Box. He also made the Frontline documentaries, Merchants of Cool and The Persuaders.
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Andrew Shapiro
- GreenOrder Inc.
Andrew L. Shapiro has a diverse background as a consultant, journalist, lecturer, and attorney. His company GreenOrder advises Fortune 500 companies on sustainability strategy. He is the author of The Control Revolution, about technology's impact on society, and has held positions at Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Yale, Markle Foundation, Aspen Institute, and The Century Foundation.
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Clay Shirky
- Writer/Consultant
Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
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Brian Sroub
- Sroub Consulting Group
Brian is the Principal of the Sroub Consulting Group. SCG provides strategy, marketing, innovation and organization services to consumer businesses. Sroub has participated in all stages of entrepreneurial growth from raw start-up to post-IPO - yet has also flourished in formal business environments with Procter & Gamble, Sony, Hearst and Stanford Business School. He is a web-pioneer applying creativity to product development (holds many patents), marketing (launched scores of successful advertising, promotion and marketing campaigns) and organizational architecture.
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Jeffery Stewart
- Geometric Group LLC
Jeff likes to Snowboard and start companies. Founded Mimeo.com, Square Earth, Monitor110, SiteSiren and the Geometric Group.




