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Your Location:
Boston
Occupation:
Internet technology, social media, web 2.0
Company:
Digitas
Website:
http://digitas.com
About Me:
Web 2.0 & social media expert - President at Garfield Group Interactive - Founder of MITX Exchange - MITX Board Member - New Dad - Terrible Golfer...
Check out my blog: deanwhitney.com
Favorite flavor of ice cream?
Napoleon Dynomite
Are you currently a MITX member?
yes

About Dean Whitney

An early pioneer in interactive media, Dean Whitney is a executive and Web 2.0 technology evangelist at Publicis Groupe's Digitas. Prior to Digitas Dean has headed technology with two successful start-ups and interactive groups at CSC and HP. He has worked some of the world’s most recognized Brands including Cisco, Fidelity, General Motors, Microsoft, Pfizer and collaborated with top agencies such as Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom.

Active at MIT with Tim-Burners Lee’s web semantics group, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, sit on some boards including Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) and a regular speaker to audiences that know little or nothing about the subject of Web 2.0. Enjoys writing biographies in the 3rd person.

You can read his blog at www.deanwhitney.com.


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2008 What's Next Forum and Technology Awards Ceremony - Photos

This years Tech Awards were amazing. Even a mid ceremony fire alarm and evacuation couldn't spool the amazing energy of the evening. The tech forum brought together some brilliant folks to discuss the future of advertising including one of my favorite people Baba Shetty, Chief Media Officer, Hill Holliday. This guy is the M. Night Shyamalan of digital advertising. I've repeated his phrase "these are tumultuous times..." and "Keep out, seek out" repeatedly since the show. Most inspiring was the… Continue

Posted on June 18th, 2008 at 7:49pm — 1 Comment (Add)

5 great crowdsourcing solutions

The Web 2.0 technology brings together people from around the world to do more than just socialize. Crowdsourcing is a way to put them to work and innovative companies are creating great ways digital professionals can harness the power of diverse talent and resources. Here are 5 ideas to get you started.…

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Posted on June 11th, 2008 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Omnisio lets you synch slides and video

I've know of plenty of slide show sites, social video sites but how do I publish my video and slide show in synch? Omnisio launched last week and allows you to combine video from social sharing sites like YouTube and either upload a PDF of your PPT or point to a SlideShare and synch up your show. It took me about 30 minutes start to finish to upload a video to Blip.tv, set up my Omnisio project, upload my PP…

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Posted on May 19th, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Visible Measures offers powerful solution to measure video engagement

The market for Internet video is exploding. Research firm eMarketer projects that by 2011 more than 85% of the U.S. Internet population will consume Internet video, up from roughly 63% in 2006. The last time this kind of viewership g…

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Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 12:20am — No Comments (Add)

Handy Google agency product guide

This two-pager is a great cheat sheet of Google products and services.

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Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 8:37am — No Comments (Add)

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At 3:36pm on July 1st, 2008, Ed Lyons said…
Dean - we have to get together someplace where there's booze and wifi and remix this site to make it more useful and less intimidating. This thing is going to die on the vine if we don't get a plan together.

Let me know what your schedule is.
At 7:35pm on June 11th, 2008, Ed Lyons said…
Dean! We got to get together and talk about re-factoring this site. Let me know when you want to meet and chat about it. (I suppose we could do it here)
At 7:16am on May 18th, 2008, Jeff Parks said…
Hi Dean,

Thanks for the invite. I'm glad you're enjoying the podcasts!

If you're interested, I'm also producing shows for Boxes and Arrows http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/763-iaconsultants

Starting an IA group is an interesting idea. If you know of other IA / UX professionals who you think would be interested in starting such a group with me on the network, drop me a note with their names and we'll see if we can start forming the community.

Cheers,
Jeff
At 1:45pm on May 5th, 2008, David Laubner said…
Thank you - looks like a great resource for the area.
At 12:00pm on April 28th, 2008, Josh Gray said…
NP. I like the idea! You should also start a Linkedin group to get your network more exposure.
At 11:43am on April 28th, 2008, Mark Annese said…
No worries Dean, you are doing some great things here. Also congrats on your promotion.
At 3:40pm on April 20th, 2008, Ed Lyons said…
Thanks for the comment, Dean. I remember your wife as well from Keane. I like the idea of this site and the Web 2.0 innovators group. I really hope they succeed. I do a lot with Web 2.0 outside of Keane, but I am uncomfortable talking a lot about it publicly - not for reasons of NDA - but I don't want to look like I am being unfaithful to my day job - which I care about. I will think about that this evening.
At 1:37pm on April 19th, 2008, Dean Whitney said…
This Facebook Widget from Trip Advisor lets you post on your blog or other networks and it updates instantly. Very cool

At 5:39pm on April 10th, 2008, Sandy Kalik said…
Hi Dean--Thanks for thinking of me!
At 7:16am on April 9th, 2008, Myles said…
Hey Dean,

Thanks for the note. Hope you're well!

Myles
 
 

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