Dave Atkins

Technical Leader, Internet Engineer, blogger: DaveWrites, WestwoodBlog
Owner, Dave Atkins Media!

Dave Atkins is a Technology Director who has worked with start up companies in Silicon Valley and Boston for the past 13 years. His blog, DaveWrites is about how he blends work, community involvement and technology to create a meaningful life. WestwoodBlog manifests part of those efforts.

Dave Atkins Media! provides strategies for small to medium-sized businesses for using social media (e.g. blogging, twitter, facebook) in their communication and engagement with customers, clients, and constituents.

Dave's LinkedIn profile describes his professional work in startup companies in Silicon Valley and Boston as an Engineering/Technical Operations leader. He has undergraduate degrees in management and political science from MIT.

Dave uses his technical and social media perspective to write about and participate in the evolution of media and citizen involvement in community and government. Fundamentally a problem-solver, he seeks out innovative ideas and ways to engage problem-solving through better communication.

Dave lives with his wife and 3 children in Westwood, approximately 13 miles southwest of Boston. An avid cyclist, Dave bike commutes into Boston whenever possible on his fixed gear bike. When it is too cold, wet, or dark to ride, Dave runs, and has completed two marathons.

Recent Press

• WBUR Morning Edition: Dave discusses using social media in work search
• Christian Science Monitor: Blogs: An Effective Job Hunting Tool?
• ABC News: Interview with Tory Johnson about Salty Legs Job Club
• Q&A with the Daily News Transcript (Norwood)
• Selectmen Back Call for Safety - Atkins proposal for town commission
• The Street/MainStreet.com profiles Dave and his use of social media in his search for work.
• Westwood Magazine profiles WestwoodBlog
• A Blog for Westwood Residents - Daily News Transcript

Featured Blog Posts

• It's BlitzTime to Meet People
• Blogging for Economic Development
• My Social Media Strategy
• Social Media as a Tool for Personal and Professional Empowerment
• Using a Wiki to Improve Town Governance
• Using Facebook to Build Community
• Develop a bias for action and change the world
• hunger for empathy
• Global will become local

Book Reviews

• Suburban Transformations, by Paul Lukez - proposing a new design process to integrate history into suburban development as a means of creating more memorable and sustainable places.
• Wikinomics, by Paul Tapscott and Anthony Williams - how ideas of mass collaboration in the corporate world may also affect cities and community.
• The Missing Class, by Katherine S. Newman - how the "near poor" in America should be both a political concern and an urban planning concern.
• The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore - strikes a resonant chord will all those who perceive a death of discourse in public life.
• The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki - perhaps diversity can work to help us make better decisions.

Connect with Dave

• Email: dave@daveatkinsmedia.com
• Twitter: @daveatkins
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• phone: 781-929-5850

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