About
Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. His dissertation explores how transitional populations leverage social technologies for social support. Fred’s work is supported by a Teaching Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Fred is frequently cited by local and national media, and he is a popular guest lecturer, presenting to organizations including Google and Yahoo.
In addition to his academic work, Fred is the co-founder of ClaimID.com, a project that empowers individuals to manage their online identity through open, decentralized identity tools. Prior to entering graduate school, Fred worked as technical director of Ibiblio.org, 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 for The Motley Fool and Nortel Networks.
Fred provides consulting and advisory services to a number of projects and organizations, including media and software companies, non-profits and political campaigns. Clients include the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Wesley Clark and John Edwards. Fred maintains the blog Unit Structures (http://fstutzman.com) and during the 2008 election cycle he was a contributing author to techPresident (http://techPresident.com), a group blog examining how presidential candidates use web technology. In 2007 he authored of a series of articles examining Web 2.0 technology, published by O’Reilly. He is currently writing a book on online social networks to be published by Morgan-Claypool.