Editors & Peer Reviewers

Michael Gilbert is an internationally known consultant to foundations and nonprofits, an innovator and researcher in the field of nonprofit communication, and a social entrepreneur.

He is the author and editor to several publications, including: Communication Centered Technology Planning and The Guide to Nonprofit Email, and he also authored The Campaign Cookbook. He is the Publisher and Editor of Nonprofit Online News, which he started in 1997 as a means to keep himself and his colleagues informed and which has since become a premier newsletter of the field. He is often credited with helping ignite a revolution in nonprofit communication with his Email Manifesto and he is well known for his provocative and incise commentary.

Mr. Gilbert was the Founding President of the Nonprofit Technology Network, which has grown into a successful professional association. He was the CEO of Social Ecology, a bleeding edge nonprofit software company.

Mr. Gilbert has served as Executive Director of three organizations, as a board member or officer of more than thirty, and as a communication and management consultant to over 1000 organizations in more than 20 countries over the last 22 years. (More information)
 

Katrin Verclas is the Executive Director of NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. NTEN is the membership organization of the nonprofit IT sector. NTEN supports the diverse people and organizations who help nonprofits employ technology effectively.

She previously co-directed Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World, a nonprofit organization focused on providing software-related services and resources to other nonprofit organizations. Her background is in IT and project management in various nonprofit organizations; communications, community organizing, community engagement, political advocacy, and relationship management. She has spent considerable time in her professional life as a program officer for a number of advocacy grantmaking and philanthropic initiatives. Katrin has written and spoken widely on topics such as open source software development, mobile technology for social change movements, online organizing, and online communities and marketplaces in industry publications and national and international conferences. (More information)
 

Here are the people involved in the peer review process for our Journals. You can also read about the guidelines for peer review.
 

Kirsten Anderberg is a prolific writer. She has been published in a wide variety of publications, from Alternet.org (“Clowning Around for Peace”), to the Cincinnati Herald (“American Genocide in New Orleans”), to the Nonprofit Online News Journal (“How to Include the Poor in Community Events”), to the Slingshot Zine (“Whirl-Mart!”, “Get Ready For the Draft”, “Torture: As American As Apple Pie”, and several more), to Wikipedia.org (“Ageism”, “Midwifery”, “Street Medic”, and several more), and several dozen publications in between. (More information)
 

Jennifer Bagnell Stuart has ten yearsÌ experience in software quality assurance and web project management in the nonprofit and commercial sectors, and over eight yearsÌ experience in program planning, management and evaluation as well as issue research and advocacy at a number of NGOs. Jennifer directs the development of Innovation NetworkÌs Point K online tools for nonprofit program planning and evaluation, and oversees their integration with the consulting practice. In her work at Innovation Network, Jennifer helps nonprofit organizations and foundations use evaluation as a tool for articulating outcomes and learning how to improve program effectiveness. Prior to joining Innovation Network, at the National Urban Technology Center Jennifer managed program planning, implementation and evaluation of a web based youth development program operating in partnerships with schools and CBOs. (More information)
 

Michael Blanding is freelance magazine writer who covers politics, travel, culture, and urban issues. He has also written for publications including The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, In These Times, Conde’ Nast Traveler, and Boston Magazine, where he is a contributing editor. (More information)
 

David Coleman is the Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies LLC (CS) and the editor of “Inside Collaboration”. CS is the leading analyst firm covering collaboration technologies and its use. Serving both vendors and end-users of these technologies, CS provides a variety of publications and services that help these populations in being more successful in selling or using collaboration technologies. (More information)
 

Phil Cubeta serves as Chief of Staff and “Charitable Cheerleader” for a division of a financial services firm, located in Dallas. Prior to coming to Dallas he headed up his company’s Charitable Giving Network out of their Home Office in New York City. And he has a great blog called GiftHub: Blogging Philanthropy. (More information)
 

Lori Dorfman is director of the Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG), a project of the Public Health Institute. BMSG conducts research on how the media portray topics related to human health, such as early childhood development, youth and violence, and family violence. Lori is part of an interdisciplinary team that conducts workshops on violence reporting for newspapers and local TV news stations. She teaches a course for masters students on mass communication and public health at the School of Public Health at the UC, Berkeley. She has published articles on public health and mass communication issues, and consults for government agencies and community programs across the U.S. and internationally on a variety of public health issues. (More information)
 

Isaac Garcia is co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop, Isaac oversees business strategy and sales for the company. Isaac has a proven record in both early- stage technology companies and enterprise sales & marketing. He started his technology career in 1996 as the first sales rep at Quote Desk Software, which was later acquired by CNET Networks, Inc. in 2000. As a founding partner at Upgradebase, Isaac served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing where he oversaw all business development and sales for the company. During his 3 year tenure at CNET, Isaac served as a Director of North America Enterprise Sales for CNET Channel. (More information)
 

Nick Gleason is co-founder and President of CitySoft. His career has spanned private, public and non-profit sectors. Before starting CitySoft, he started a successful consulting business, Gleason Associates, which focused on urban development and technology. Before starting Gleason Associates, Nick participated in a year-long Fellowship in leadership development at the Coro Foundation in San Francisco where he worked with and consulted to business, labor, government and non-profit organizations. (More information)
 

Dahna Goldstein is the Founder of PhilanTech, LLC. She has worked for venture philanthropies, including Ashoka and Blue Ridge Foundation New York, and has developed web-based applications for the nonprofit sector. She has also produced interactive eLearning programs, including the award-winning ÏWhat Is a Leader?Ó program, while working for Harvard Business School Publishing and Global Education Network. Dahna holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Williams College, a Master of Education degree, with a concentration in technology, from Harvard University, and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. (More information)
 

Garth Graham is a consultant and activist, with extensive Canadian and international experience in enabling communities and governments to apply Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in community development and to plan national strategies for ICT use. In a career that spans work in Yukon Territory, East Africa and Vietnam, he has been dedicated to ensuring that decision-making about the development choices which communities face occurs at the community level. He says, “Creating situations where people can define their own choices about what they want to be or do motivates me.” He now lives and works in Victoria, BC, Canada. (Contact Garth Graham)
 

Dr. John M. Grohol, Psy.D. is an expert in online psychology and behavior, developer, researcher, and author. Kicking around the Internet since 1992, he is the author of The Insider’s Guide to Mental Health Resources Online (Guilford, 2003), a published researcher, and he sits on the editorial boards for the Journal of Medical Internet Research and CyberPsychology & Behavior. Dr. Grohol is currently an Associate Director at D.C.-based Revolution Health. (More information)
 

Kim Henderson is the Knowledge and Information Manager for the Bureau for Development Policy of the UNDP. In this capacity, she oversees four of UNDP’s five practice networks and works in collaboration with other units to co-ordinate their knowledge and practice networks. Previous to this, she was the Knowledge Network Facilitator for the Democratic Governance Practice Network. Before joining UNDP, she worked on a range of development issues for the Australian Agency for International Development, with a particular focus on democratic governance and the Asia-Pacific region, most recently serving in Indonesia. She was also seconded to the Australian Parliament as Development Co-operation Adviser to the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999. Kim holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. (More information)
 

Molly E. Holzschlag is an author, instructor, and Web designer. She has authored over 30 books related to Web design and development. She’s been coined “one of the greatest digerati” and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. There is little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, Molly is one of the most fun and vibrant Web characters around. (More information)
 

Jenny Hyatt is the founder and director of The Development School (tds). Since 1982 she has worked in social research, organisational development, programme evaluation and development education for a wide variety of public agencies, donors and NGOs in over twenty countries. She has written on many subjects including sustainability; the development of the third sectors in Central and Eastern Europe; working with change; and social development practice. (More information)
 

Carleen Maitland is Assistant Professor of IST at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her doctorate from Delft University of Technology in 2001 where her research focused on the role of institutions in creating the potential for electronic commerce in developing countries. Dr. MaitlandÌs current research is generally concerned with inter-organizational relations and market structures in the provision of advanced Internet services, both fixed and mobile. To read more about her teaching, research and service activities follow the links. (More information)
 

Ross Mayfield CEO and co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise Social Software that dramatically increases group productivity and develops a group memory. In other words, we adapt wikis (group-editable websites) and weblogs for enterprise use. Most recently, I was VP of Marketing and Business Development at a Fujitsu spinout developing telecom software. I also founded an ISP and a web design company; and served as marketing director for the largest privately held telecom group in Eastern Europe. (More information)
 

Samantha Moscheck has spent the past eight years working to build the technology capacity of social justice organizations, and has worked closely with more than fifty organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest in the past four years. She focuses on strategic technology planning, staff and leader development, and web/database planning and development. She is a technologist, a historian, and an activist raised in the southern US and currently living in Seattle. (More information)
 

Jerold Pearson In addition to his work at Stanford, Jerold is a partner in eAdvancement, a consortium of independent consultants that provides strategic guidance in alumni and constituent relations, communications, and fundraising. As a consultant, he has conducted surveys and focus groups for a wide range of institutions including Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, UC-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins (and many more). His international clients include University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, McGill, Queen’s, Simon Fraser, and Ryerson universities (all in Canada), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), and the American University of Beirut (Lebanon). (More information)
 

Jonathan Peizer has over two decades of extensive experience in strategic planning, development, management, and successful execution of projects employing a broad variety of technologies. His forte involves identifying needs and applying the appropriate strategy and implementation solutions to meet them. He has significant experience working in international, cross-cultural environments in over 75 countries. (More information)
 

Ismael Pena-Lopez Lecturer in Public Policies for Development and ICT4D. Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [Open University of Catalonia], Barcelona, Spain. Degree in Economics by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Master in Ecoaudit and Corporate Planning of the Environment by the Instituto de Investigaciones Ecologicas. Postgraduate in Knowledge Management by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. M.Phil. in Political Science by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His interests and research fields are the impact of the Information Society in development (ICT4D), with special focus on the digital divide, e-inclusion and the relationship between human development and e-readiness. He has been the founder and director, for five years, of the cooperation for development programme at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, whose main goal is e-learning for development by means of online volunteers. He is editor of the ICTlogy review about the Knowledge Society, the Digital Divide and ICT4D. (More information)
 

Laura Quinn is the founder of Alder Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in internet solutions for nonprofits. She specializes in helping clients – including many who have very little technology experience – turn a vague concept into a strategy or website that exceeds their goals while staying within their budget. Laura frequently speaks and publishes on nonprofit internet topics. She will be conducting a N-TEN webinar that will explore the subject of branding through websites further. (More information)
 

Jon Ramer lives in the Pacific Northwest. He is one of the co-founders of the Interra Project. Because they believe cooperation is critical to the success of their project, they are hosting local study and practice groups to help local partners better understand and apply what theyʼre learning about cooperation. (More information)
 

Howard Rheingold fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged his computer into the telephone and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, his interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity (1984), written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech (1982) and The Cognitive Connections (1986) with Howard Levine, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It (1988). (More information)
 

Thomas B. Riley has been involved in public policy and information issues for over 30 years, starting his career as an advocate for information and privacy laws in the early 1970′s, and he is the author of three books on this subject. He has specialized in these issues internationally and has researched and written on a whole range of issues in relation to public sector reform and the impacts of information technology for the past fifteen years. Thomas Riley has also been in demand as a public speaker around the world on the role of governments in our changing technological environments. (More information)
 

Alan Rosenblatt is a long-time veteran of cyberpolitics. He is the Executive Director of the Internet Advocacy Center. He is a frequent lecturer and has published many articles on the impact of digital technologies on politics. He taught one of the very first university courses on Internet politics, and he was among the first online journalists to get credentials for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 2000. (More information)
 

Nitin Sawhney completed his doctoral dissertation from MIT in January 2003. He often works in challenging interdisciplinary areas at the intersection of computation, design and social sciences. Nitin’s doctoral thesis was titled “Cooperative Innovation in the Commons”, which focused on design platforms, pedagogical approaches and understanding intellectual property mechanisms that support distributed collaboration and innovation in sustainable technology. As part of this research, Nitin co-founded the ThinkCycle initiative, developed the online collaboration platform and co-taught the Design that Matters studio courses at MIT that tackle real-world problems in underserved communities. (More information)
 

Michael Soper is the President of TeamSoper.Com and the Development & Marketing Management Corporation. Formerly, he was the Senior Vice President of Development at PBS and WETA. At PBS, Soper managed all fundraising support services supplied to member stations, including the development of the “TV Worth Watching … TV Worth Paying For” and “Funded by the Annual Financial Support of Viewers Like You” themes / campaigns. Formal station evaluations rated Soper’s services and teams as providing outstanding customer service, and focused on those areas of greatest importance to the financial success of the stations. (More information)
 

Michael Stein is a nationally renowned technology writer and new media strategist who empowers nonprofits in areas of communications, fundraising and advocacy. He is the author of three books and numerous articles about nonprofits and technology, including “The eNonprofit: A Guide to ASPs, Internet Services and Online Software” with John Kenyon in 2002. In 1997, he co-authored the groundbreaking book “Fundraising on the Internet: Recruiting and Renewing Donors Online”, with Nick Allen and Mal Warwick. Michael has provided strategic support to numerous organizations on Internet strategy covering tactics related to marketing, fundraising and advocacy. (Read his blog)
 

Robert Weiner is president of Robert L. Weiner Consulting, he is an independent technology consultant based in San Francisco. He specializes in helping nonprofits make informed, strategic decisions about the selection, use, and management of information technology. He has consulted for a wide variety of organizations. (More information)
 

Hilary Yerbury has a longstanding research interest in the ways information and experience contribute to change for an individual and for social change in the community. She has worked as a volunteer for several NGOs, including the Australian Library and Information Association and the Oxfam International Youth Parliament. Reversing the expected academic career, she has been a senior academic in Information Studies at the University of Technology Sydney for a number of years and is now pursuing a doctoral degree in the School of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her supervisor is Professor Jenny Onyx and she is exploring the ways young people create a sense of community online.
 

Ethan Zuckerman is a fellow at the Berkman Center, where his research focuses on media attention, and on the role of the private sector in ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for International Development.) With Rebecca Mackinnon, he directs the Global Voices project, which works to diversify conversations online by featuring bloggers and citizen journalists from around the world. (More information)