About Moi

Hi, I'm Jeff Tidwell. I'm an online community pioneer with 20 years of experience connecting regular people with compelling digital experiences across a variety of communities. I think these experiences will get much more visual and physically engaging.

I am currently the Creative Director of Chirp Interactive, Inc. and a consultant working recently with Navigenics.com, The David Allen Company and other savvy entrepreneurs.

Just prior I was the Director of Panel and Community Products for MarketTools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Previously I served as Director, User Experience for WebMD in New York and Atlanta where I helped launched Blogs and did lots of usability work for the health portal.

I dropped out in 2001 and went beachside on Kauai for 3 years where I operated the Aloha Dude Vacation Rental and Internet Hut and recovered from the first boom-bust.

In 2000 I developed the online community Cancer Buddies and email communications programs for Oncology.com as Director of Community.

I was a Senior Product Manager for E*TRADE tasked with producing the online community for the online financial hub and brokerage. The community exceeded 800,000 very active members.

I produced the prototype Kids Online Community NvolveKids sold to Nickelodeon Online, and developed the website and beta marketing communications programs for software maker Actioneer. In 1996 I was the recipient of a grant from the San Francisco Examiner for an arts and politics site, Foundry, which he created in collaboration with the San Francisco Digital Media Center. In the old BBS days, I developed an online campus for the Electronic University Network, the first online service to offer distance learning in a collaborative hypertext bulletin board environment.

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