User:Davidwhittle

Greetings - getting to the point, I'm an author, speaker, technologist, consultant, entrepreneur, and seventh-generation Latter-day Saint (Mormon).

I'm the author of, which was used by Duke and other universities as a textbook. I'm the co-author of

, and was invited to be a contributing writer in, along with others such as Jack Anderson (Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter), Jake Garn, Bob Bennett, and Orrin Hatch (Senators), Hyrum W. Smith (founder of FranklinQuest), Michael Leavitt (Governor of Utah and Secretary of Health & Human Services), Kieth Merrill (Academy Award-Winning Director), Richard L. Bushman (a leading Mormon historian at Columbia), and Truman G. Madsen (Mormon philosopher). I have also been a contributing writer to Smart Computing Magazine, Executive Excellence, the IBM PC Technical Journal, and the IBM Systems Selection Guide.

I've been featured or quoted in numerous national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, USA Today, PC Week, PC Magazine, OS/2 Professional, CompuServe, Working Woman Magazine, and the Deseret News.

Working Woman quoted me alongside Google's Eric Schmidt as "one of America's most original technological thinkers."

I've been a guest lecturer at Duke University and a guest speaker at over 800 venues on four continents and in forty states, including keynotes or featured addresses at Fenasoft in Sao Paulo in 1993, the International Trade Forum in Moscow in 1993, Comdex in Atlanta in 1994, and the Association of PC Users Groups in Cleveland in 2011.

I'm an expert on technology, particularly the Internet, and its impact on culture, business, government, and society. I specialize in business model strategy, viral growth, and the mechanisms of online influence.

I have also studied Mormonism and a wide variety of anti-Mormon literature extensively since my youth, and would like to help Wikipedia improve its accuracy and balance in this extraordinarily controversial arena as Mormons gain more and more attention on the U.S. and international stage.