David Weinberger

Who is David Weinberger?

David Weinberger is a highly-regarded author, speaker, and consultant on Internet communication, publishing and marketing.

Weinberger is frequently published and quoted in venues such as the

New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Harvard Business Review. He

is currently a columnist for MIT Technology Review, Darwin Online, Intranet Design and KMWorld and is a frequent commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now."

Weinberger's consulting practice, Evident Marketing, has served a

wide range of clients including RR Donnelley, Intuit, Sun Microsystems,

Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 and CSC Index.

Weinberger served as VP of Strategic Marketing at Open Text

Corporation, where he helped Open Text move from one of the first Web

search engine companies (the engine behind Yahoo!) to market- and

thought-leadership in Web-based collaborative software. At OpenText

Weinberger contributed to a successful public offering in 1996.

Prior to Open Text, Weinberger was Vice President of Strategic

Marketing at Interleaf. At Interleaf he helped launch the industry's

first document management system and its first electronic document

publishing system, years ahead of the Web.

Weinberger began his career in the late '70s teaching philosophy at

New Jersey's Stockton State College for five years. During this time he

maintained his steady freelance writing of humor, reviews and

intellectual and academic articles, publishing in places as diverse as

The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Smithsonian, Alfred

Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and TV Guide.

Weinberger earned his doctorate of philosophy in philosophical studies at the University of Toronto.