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John Coate previously worked as Independent Affiliate at Edgeryders Lbg and Executive Director, and GM of KZYX at Mendocino County Public Broadcasting.
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Website: http://johncoate.comWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_CoateAs Marketing Director and Conferencing Manager of the WELL for its first six years (1986-1991), I was instrumental in creating the online community that Wired! magazine called, "the world's most influential." In this role I was the first of what is now called an 'online community manager.'I co-founded and managed SF Gate (sfgate.com) from January 1995 through January 2001. Owned by the San Francisco Chronicle, it was the first big city news website in the world. While there, my crew and I pioneered a number of innovations, many of which are now standard features at most news web sites. We used existing material from the Chronicle, Examiner, KRON TV, AP and other places, and we had our own news and editorial staff creating original material for the web.I was the GM of KZYX radio in Mendocino County and the Executive Director of Mendocino County Public Broadcasting from 2008 until mid-2015. KZYX is listener-supported public radio. It serves a wide geographic area that is quite rural. When I arrived the station was mired in debt. Most of that debt is paid off and the station is better than it ever was with a strong local news team, an iOS app with streaming archives, high quality programs both old and new, and a well-functioning business office. I was on the cover of the May 1997 issue of Wired!. I'm the one on the left. The others are Larry Brilliant, Stewart Brand and Cliff Figallo.This cover story was later published as a book: The WELL: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner.I am prominent in Howard Rheingold's classic, The Virtual Community.I am profiled (with a full page picture of Cliff and me) in Fred Turner's 2006 book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture.Most recently, I am featured prominently in the Cyberspace chapter of The Quiet Before: the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas by Gal Beckerman. In a review of the book in The Economist I was called the "godfather of social media." Also:2002-3: Development Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org).2004-5: I set up the US version of Habbo Hotel - an online virtual world for teens, owned by Sulake, a Finnish Company.
Listed skills include Social Networking, Social Media, Community Sites, Public Relations, and 30 others.
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Mostly Europe
Edgeryders is a social enterprise that employs a network of independent-minded experts who give advice, manage projects and improve larger social problems though collective intelligence dynamics. I work with them in various, still-evolving, ways. I gave the keynote at their LOTE5 (Living on the Edge #5) conference in Brussels, Feb. 2016.
Mendocino County, Ca
KZYX is a listener-supported public radio station owned by its parent NPO, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting. In my seven years at KZYX I paid down most of its debts, rebuilt the local news department, and created on-demand new media products to broaden its range and appeal.
Habbo Hotel is an online virtual 'cartoon world' mostly played by teens.
Helped set up the US HQ, launched the US "Habbo Hotel", managed the in-game operation, then became North American community director.
San Francisco
I was the founder and General Manager of sfgate.com. I started there when it was part of the San Francisco Newspaper Agency. My first work there was as the Content Director. Working with Project Director Allen Weiner, with the help of Sun Microsystems we went public on the world wide web in March 1994. I took a brief hiatus in 1994 to work at a software company. During that time the newspaper unions went on strike. When the strike was settled in late 1994, everyone working with SF Gate left the company. They asked me to come back and restart the project. I returned as GM in January 1995. I hired my staff one by one. By the time I left in 2001, I had a crew of 65 people. In 1997 the Chronicle Publishing Company bought Hearst's interest in SF Gate and combined us with KRON TV's internet projects. Our offices were at the KRON building until Hearst bought the Chronicle and SF Gate. I left about a year later.SF Gate was the first news website to do a number of things that are now standard. We were popular for our witty headlines as well as our easy to navigate user interface. We were the first news site to host public discussion forums and comment spaces.
Sausalito, Ca
I was employee #2 at the WELL and was at the center of its development as what Wired magazine in 1997 called "the world's most influential online community." I was hired as the Marketing Director. I quickly realized that we were in the relationship business and that if I did everything I could to make the WELL experience as meaningful as possible to the people who used it, that they would cause it to grow and prosper. In the process I became the first person to earn a living as what is now called an Online Community Manager. The WELL, and I personally, have been featured in numerous books and articles over the years including The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold, The WELL by Katie Hafner, and From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner.
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John Coate is based in Little River, California, United States.
John Coate has worked for Edgeryders Lbg, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, Techsoup, Sulake Inc - Habbo Hotel, and Sulake.
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John Coate is listed with skills including Social Networking, Social Media, Community Sites, Public Relations, Blogging, Radio, Public Speaking, and Editorial.
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