social computing

More about me at my website, tommandel.com. Here’s an overview:

Tom Mandel is an experienced entrepreneur and strategist. He founded Screenporch.com (later Caucus, Inc.), the first venture-funded social software company in 1996. Customers included IBM, Hewlett Packard, Warner-Lambert (now merged with Pfizer), Merck and many others.

Tom also founded Mighty Acorn and Suplion and has helped launch several successful technology start-ups, including seedwiki and Connectbeam. He has also been the president of an online golf equipment company.

Tom Mandel’s consulting clients have included Harvard Business School Publishing, the Center for Public Integrity, Criterion Ventures, the United Methodist Church, Ventera and many others.

In addition to Social Computing, Tom blogs at Fast Forward, the Conversation Hub, and Social Media Today.

Previous History

Tom’s business career began in publishing. He was an acquisitions editor for the Macmillan Company as well as their European representative in Paris, where he also did research and wrote for UNESCO.

After a stint as Director of Advertising for Supercuts, he entered the computer industry in the 1980s, working as a marketing executive and founding Cadex and Spiegelmann Mandel Interactive, the first electronic graphic design company. He became active in the Internet industry in 1993 as part of the founding team for one of the first Internet-based video-conferencing solutions.

Other information

Tom Mandel is a skilled thinker and communicator with a life-long focus on innovation across many fields. He has taught at three universities and been the Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. He is the author of twelve books of poetry and has published in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including a Norton Anthology and the now classic In The American Tree.