Fred Stutzman, Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science
Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, and co-founder of ClaimID.com, the identity-management site. His research interests include identity, social software and networks, and the management of online relationships. Prior to entering graduate school, Fred worked for Ibiblio.org (formerly SunSITE), the large digital repository of open-source, open-access content. While at Ibiblio, he proposed and managed the development of Lyceum, the open-source blogging platform. He has previously worked in technical and project management roles for The Motley Fool and Nortel Networks.
Fred’s research on social networks and identity has been cited by local, national and international media. He is frequently invited to speak about his research, presenting to Google, Yahoo and the TTI/Vanguard organization. He has organized the Social Software Symposium and BarCampRDU. He is currently a contributing organizer of the upcoming 2008 ASIST Social Software Summit.
In addition to his research, Fred has provided consulting to a number of organizations, including media and software companies, non-profits and the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and Wesley Clark. Currently, he is a social media advisor to the presidential campaign of John Edwards. Fred maintains the research blog Unit Structures and is a contributing author to techPresident, a group blog examining how presidential candidates use technology. Additionally, he is the author of an ongoing series of articles examining Web 2.0 technology, published by O’Reilly.