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Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a digital communications and social media strategist, professor & thought leader with over 25 years’ experience at the digital intersection of politics, advocacy, media, and education. He is Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy at turner4D, providing world-renowned training and strategic counsel to organizations seeking to use social and digital media more effectively. Together with Suzanne Turner, Alan founded the Internet Advocacy Roundtable in 2005—a monthly event focused on digital and social advocacy, politics and media. In 1995, he co-taught the world’s first university course on digital politics at George Mason University with Robert Dudley, Ph.D. and he’s been teaching it ever since. Alan co-founded Take Action News, creating a new genre of news that facilitates action without taking a position. Dr. Rosenblatt is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, American and George Washington Universities, and occasionally at Georgetown and Gonzaga Universities, where he teaches courses on digital and social media politics. He was Associate Director for Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress/CAP Action Fund from 2007-2013, where he created and managed the Center’s social media program. Alan regularly blogs at SocialMediaToday.com, CQ-Roll Call’s Connectivity.com and DrDigipol.Tumblr.com. He previously blogged at BigThink.com, HuffingtonPost.com and TechPresident.com. Find him on Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook and across the web at @DrDigipol.

Alan is also a founding team member of Media Bureau Networks (MBN), a pioneer in streaming media services; a contributing editor to Politics Online; serves on the editorial review boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the internet, politics, and government; is a member of the Board of Directors for E-Democracy.org, and a member of Roll Call/Congress.org’s Online Advocacy Advisory Board. He was a Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet in 2008. He taught Political Science at George Mason University for nine years, where, in 1995, he launched the first-ever internet politics course. With MBN, he webcasted live coverage of the 2000 Presidential Conventions. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Vice President for Online Advocacy Services division at Stateside Associates. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director of Training Programs at e-advocates (now called 720 Strategies). Alan Rosenblatt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston College, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.