Aaron Roe Fulkerson is an American information technology businessman and founder of

MindTouch MindTouch was an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Diego, California that designed, developed, and sold SaaS computer software and online services. MindTouch was founded by Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg in 2005. In J ...

, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core

business model A business model describes how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value,''Business Model Generation'', Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and 470 practitioners from 45 countries, self-published, 2010 in economic, social, ...

collaborative network A collaborative network is a network consisting of a variety of entities (e.g. organizations and people) that are largely autonomous, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous in terms of their operating environment, culture, social capital an ...

s, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software. Fulkerson is founder and board member at

, a supplier of

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

and

software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch with Steve Bjorg, Aaron was a member of

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division, and worked on distributed systems research. Previously, he owned and operated a successful software and Information Technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP. He won a

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the largest scholarship provider in the United States. The private, independent foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. It offers the larg ...

scholarship in 2002. Aaron advises Microsoft on open source practices, and is a founding advisory member of the

OuterCurve Foundation The Outercurve Foundation was an independent 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation founded by Microsoft. Its goal was to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." They ran several software ...

(formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation). He is also the technical editor to

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's "Implementing Enterprise 2.0." Aaron is a contributing blogger and writer for

Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...

, GigaOm OSTATIC, TechWeb Internet Evolution,

Fortune Magazine ''Fortune'' is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City. It is published by Fortune Media Group Holdings, owned by Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon. The publication was founded by Henry Luce in 1929. The ...

CNNMoney.com CNN Business (formerly CNN Money) is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN. The website was originally formed as a joint venture between CNN.com and Time Warner's ''Fortune'' and ''Money'' magazines. Since the spin-off of Time ...

, CMSWire and

ReadWriteWeb ReadWrite (originally ReadWriteWeb or RWW) is a Web technology blog launched in 2003. RW covers Web 2.0 and Web technology in general, and provides industry news, reviews, and analysis. Founded by Richard MacManus, Technorati ranked ReadWriteWe ...

. In 2008, Aaron was cited one of seven "Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists" by ReadWriteWeb. Aaron is also a frequent speaker on the topics of enterprise software, Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM (SCRM), open source, education, and entrepreneurship, In March 2010, he was named on the Mindtouch website as the forty-sixth in the list of "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".

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External links

OSCON Speaker
at Oscon 2009
Google Profile

Fulkerson Personal Blog

WOA Pioneer

WOA Presentation

Floss 89: Interview with Aaron Roe Fulkerson about Mindtouch

Linux Journal video interview with Aaron Fulkerson

podcast about Wiki's

Podcast interview

Read Write Web

Fulkerson Interviews
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