We have a new contributor - Bill French. Bill is the co-founder of MyST Technology Partners and has had a long career in Information Technology (IT). As you have already seen, IT is becoming increasingly important in Marcom/Public Relations.
He’s actually already been posting. 
Check out “Information wants to be free …” and “Collaborative Editing.”
Bill French founded Global Technologies Corporation in 1981, a consulting, database applications, and software product development firm. With a strong background in finance and accounting, Bill’s success in small business systems integration was perfect timing for the PC revolution. Building systems based on business requirements provided the background necessary to launch Global Technologies as an intellectual product development firm.
Bill’s work at Global Technologies focused on increased productivity for PC database developers, leading to the creation of dBRIEF, an Emacs editing environment that produced 25 to 50% greater programming productivity. dBRIEF became the industry leader for PC database programming, garnering more than 80% market share before being acquired by Borland International in 1992. While on a quest for better PC-to-PC communications, Bill co-created LapLink, a desktop-to-laptop communications utility. With more than 11 million customers, LapLink has become a staple for mobile computing professionals, and has won awards in its category for the last 14 years. In 1994 Bill created the popular QuickSite web authoring system - the first small business content management system to employ database technology for managing and generating web content. QuickSite won more than seven industry awards in its first year of existence as more than 2 million non-technical business users chose it to launch their first web site initiatives.
As co-founder of MyST Technology Partners, Bill is building a new generation of personal publishing and knowledge management tools based on Web services and XML standards. The first product, MySmartChannels, was released by MyST Technology Partners in March 2003.
You may read his complete bio here in MarcomBlog’s Wiki.
By the way, for those who may be wondering - Bill is not my brother. Yes, I do have a brother - and his name is Bill French - just not ‘this‘ Bill French. 
My brother is also in IT. Kinda cool, huh. 
So, Welcome Bill! Thank you for volunteering and contributing. Bill will add a new perspective to the CMS/Tech aspect of Marcom/PR complementing our other contributors.
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