User:Niccoa

My name is Nicco Mele, and I live outside of Boston, Massachusetts. I started actively editing on Wikipedia as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative, a project aimed at finding better ways to recruit experts and students to help improve Wikipedia content. I am adjunct faculty at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy where I teach a class on digital literacy.

My career spans politics and technology. From April 2003 to March 2004, I was the webmaster for Governor Howard Dean's 2004 presidential race. In March of 2004, I co-founded EchoDitto, a service consulting company devoted to online community and open-source web development. In the Fall of 2008, I was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. In the Spring of 2009, I was named the Spring 2009 Visiting Edward R. Murrow Distinguished Lecturer at the Harvard Shorenstein Center for the study of Press, Politics and Public Policy. I am also the co-founder of GeniusRocket.com, an online crowd-sourcing service for creative projects as well as the non-profit ProxyDemocracy.com, an online resource for proxy voting and shareholder resolutions.

I can be found on:  Nicco.org EchoDitto.com Flickr Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Wordpress Tumblr</li> </ul>