User:Ccartter

I have worked on information networking projects for over 20 years. In the mid-1980's I helped set up a news service out of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia during the war and famine there. Later, I worked with IGC networks to establish a human rights news service linking groups in the Philippines and the U.S. Both of these were projects of Grassroots International, an organization I helped found in 1983 with Dan Connell. I joined the staff at Boston University School of Public Health in 1993 where I helped establish a network of community groups working on substance abuse issues, Join Together Online under the leadership of David Rosenbloom. It was at BU that I met Nate Cobb, founder of the quit smoking site QuitNet. We collaborated to further develop both sites, with each winning early honors at the now defunct Global Information Infrastructure Awards. In 2001, I left my job at BU to start QuitNet.com, Inc. Rosenbloom and Cobb were active Board members until QuitNet was acquired by Axia Health Management in 2005. I continue to direct the QuitNet service, now owned by Healthways (Axia was bought by Healthways in December 2006).