Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Roe Fulkerson
Born Orange, CA, United States
Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Occupation Chief Executive Officer

Aaron Roe Fulkerson is an information technology businessman and founder of MindTouch, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core business model,[1] collaborative networks, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software.[2]

Fulkerson is currently Founder and CEO at MindTouch,[3] a supplier of open source and collaborative network software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch with Steve Bjorg, Aaron was a member of Microsoft’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research. Previously he owned and operated a successful software and Information Technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP. He won a Jack Kent Cooke scholarship in 2002.[4] Aaron advises Microsoft on open source practices and is a founding advisory member of the OuterCurve Foundation (formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation).[5] He is also the technical editor to MCGraw Hill's "Implementing Enterprise 2.0." Aaron is a contributing blogger and writer for Forbes,[6] GigaOm OSTATIC,[7] TechWeb Internet Evolution,[8] Fortune Magazine, CNNMoney.com,[9] CMSWire[10] and ReadWriteWeb.[11] In 2008 Aaron was cited one of seven "Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists" by ReadWriteWeb.[12] Aaron is also a frequent speaker on the topics of enterprise software, Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM (SCRM), open source, education, and entrepreneurship,[13][14][15][16]

In March 2010, he was named on the Mindtouch website as the forty-sixth in the list of "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".[17]

References

  1. ↑ Asay, Matt (July 10, 2009). "Trent Reznor: 'So you want to make money on the Web'". News.cnet.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ Erickson, Jonathan (May 7, 2008). "Web Oriented Architectures | Dr Dobb's". Ddj.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  3. ↑ "MindTouch News & Events | Social Knowledge Base System – MindTouch, Inc". Mindtouch.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Jack Kent Cooke Foundation – Aaron Fulkerson". Jkcf.org. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ "The Outercurve Foundation > About > Board of Directors". Outercurve.org. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ Fulkerson, Aaron (2010-08-09). "The Evolution Of User Manuals". Forbes.
  7. ↑ "The Future of Collaborative Networks". Ostatic.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Aaron Roe Fulkerson – How, and Why, End Users Circumvent IT". Internet Evolution. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Headphone serenity". CNN.
  10. ↑ Aaron Roe Fulkerson (@roebot) (August 25, 2010). "The Importance of Context: Why Enterprise 2.0 Still Fails to Deliver Value". Cmswire.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ Author, Guest (September 30, 2010). "What Do Online Documentation and Museums Have in Common?". Readwriteweb.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  12. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Marshall (April 11, 2008). "The New Robert Scobles: Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists Today". Readwriteweb.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Jack Kent Cooke Foundation – 2010 Conference resources". Jkcf.org. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2012 – Conference Overview". E2conf.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  15. ↑ Events (October 16, 2008). "Who are the best speakers on content technology? (cont. from San Francisco) – Gilbane Group Press Releases and Announcements". Gilbane.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Speaker: Aaron Fulkerson: OSCON 2009 – O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 – 24, 2009, San Jose, CA". Oscon.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  17. ↑ "MindTouch.com". Archived from the original on 22 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-21.

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