Stewart Mader

Stewart Mader is an experienced content strategist and project manager, dynamic speaker to corporate audiences and conferences, author of two books, and editor of Future Changes, a widely-read weblog on information design, content strategy, wikis, and collaboration that has been cited by The New Yorker, The Guardian (UK), CIO Magazine, Fast Company, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and The New York Times.

Content Strategy and Enterprise Wiki Project Management

He has helped organizations around the world develop content strategies and build products that increase information value, collaboration, and employee & customer engagement. He has been hired by companies including Booz Allen Hamilton, Brown University, Family Health International, MARS Information Services, and The Seed Company to guide projects at every stage, from planning and pilot testing to deployment and training for thousands of employees.

Atlassian Software hired Stewart to advise customers of its flagship knowledge management product, Confluence. He worked with a diverse group of companies, including Adobe, Apple, Fidelity Investments Center for Applied Technology, Johns Hopkins University, LeapFrog Enterprises, MBF Group, Pixar, PwC Australia, Records Management Association of Australasia, and Thales Group.

Wikipatterns.com

Stewart led the creation of Wikipatterns.com, a knowledge base for collaboration and content management best practices sponsored by Atlassian Software. He managed development, user testing, product launch, publicity, and customer outreach to build a vibrant community. The growth and success of the site led to a book publishing contract with John Wiley & Sons for Wikipatterns, which he wrote and published in 2008. Wikipatterns has received rave reviews and is one of the Top 100 Social Media Books. Mader is also author of Using Wiki in Education (2006), a collection of case studies from educators around the world that explores the impact of collaboration tools on education.

Brown University: iTunes U

At Brown University, he led the Division of Biology and Alpert Medical School’s pilot of iTunes U. Brown was one of the first six schools chosen by Apple to be involved in the development of iTunes U, and Stewart helped test and refine functional prototypes for batch upload, metadata, audio, video, and image organization, and analytics. He also helped develop, test, and refine a workflow for automated recording, metadata capture, and uploading of lecture audio and video files that was designed so that any instructor could capture their own lectures with as little effort and external assistance as possible.

Chemistry Language Project

He also led the selection, integration, and deployment of Brown’s campus-wide enterprise wiki, and co-developed the Chemistry Language Project, a tool designed to help Brown University graduate students from non-english speaking countries strengthen their understanding, pronunciation, and use of scientific terms. His team developed a reusable content structure that provided definitions, images associated with the term, information about its syllable structure and stress pattern, and text and audio examples of use in a scientific and non-scientific context. His work on this project is detailed in Chapter 20 of the recently published book Authenticity in the Adult Language Classroom and Beyond (TESOL Press, 2009).

The Science of Spectroscopy

Stewart co-founded The Science of Spectroscopy, a NASA Space Grant funded project to enable teachers to build and distribute educational content online. He led this project from concept to product, including content scoping and development, UX design, and deployment of a web content management system. He also wrote, directed, and managed the production team for two companion documentary films that have aired on PBS stations: Seeing the Scientific Light (2002) and Skysight (2005). The Science of Spectroscopy has been featured in the journals Science and Chemistry International, and is a member of multiple curriculum libraries, including the National Science Digital Library, Royal Society of Chemistry LearnNet and the Discovery Channel Guide for Educators.

Emerson College

He also advised the Emerson College Online Learning Communities, a project funded by the Davis Educational Foundation, on design, information architecture, and adoption. Prior to that, he served as interim Director of the Faculty Center for Learning Development at University of Hartford.

Speaking

Mader has been a speaker at the American Chemical Society, Columbia University, Drexel University, Fidelity Investments, IBM, MIT, NASA, Sacred Heart University, Stanford University, and Traction Software as well as many industry conferences in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He regularly writes for the business and technology press, including Science Magazine, ZDNet, Software Development Forum (PDF), and The Content Wrangler.

He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from University of Hartford, and an M.S. in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology from University at Albany.