Stowe Boyd is an internationally recognized authority on social applications and their impact on business, media, and society. He serves at he CEO of Blue Whale Labs. Stowe is the editor of /Message, and has has served as editor and columnist for Cutter Consortium, Darwin, Fawcette, Wiley, and Knowledge Management magazine. He was formerly the president of Corante, the social media group, as well as the managing director of A Working Model. He is a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, the Media 2.0 workgroup, and the Federated Media Publishing blog network. He has appeared in various high-visibility conferences and symposia, including The Collaborative Technologies Conference, Reboot, SHiFT, Lift, Under The Radar, Comdex, Supernova, Braintrust, Instant Messaging Planet, KMWorld, AIIM, and dozens of others. Stowe has a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master's degree in computer science from Boston University.