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Keith HopperI make web products as part of the Public Interactive group at National Public Radio (NPR). The community engagement software I've been shepherding for the past two years has been deployed in 20+ U.S. markets and for the nationally syndicated shows NPR's Car Talk and PRI's The World.

I help champion VRM at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where I participate on the Project VRM Steering Committee, led by the infamous Doc Searls.

I am a contributing author for the book Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace following the creation of the Collective Problem Solving Wiki. I have also published articles on innovation and strategy.

I served on the Board of Directors for AIGA Boston and on the Board of Advisors for New England Art Institute and Kaplan University's Design Programs. I've received awards for design strategy and human engineering.

A recent fascination with DIY electronics is difficult to explain, especially to my wife, but I've been playing with mobile, hackable communications platforms while trying to encourage software developers to embrace them as an alternative to the PC or the proprietary cell phone.

I also nurse a few wacky beliefs, like that we create the most value when we're having fun, and the best source of innovation comes from technologies and environments that encourage and inspire and not through linear problem solving.

Surprisingly, this is all related. Some day I'll draw a picture to prove it.

 

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