John Anthony Hartman

President

Feedia

John Anthony Hartman started out as a Theater Arts major at the Collage of Santa Fe back in the 80’s and he studied multimedia design as well as video production at the Art Institute of Seattle. John was very fortunate to have had family that owned a computer store in 1981 and this seeded his technology journey.
 
John has run multiple consulting firms in the past. Inspired by Rheingold and Lanier he had a stint as a Virtual Reality consultant back in the mid 90’s. After performing Y2K consulting services John took an offer from one of his clients becoming the Sr. Network Engineer for an international company with 30 subsidiaries. John has worked with many government agencies and major corporations on a litany of projects in the IT space Including working with Intel early on beta testing some of the very first “web” servers as well he developed some of the first corporate Intranets.
 
In 2004 John started helping to construct the Digital Universe. “The Digital Universe aims to be the definitive repository of human knowledge online.” John ended up as the Technology Evangelist for the Digital Universe Foundation (DUF) where he worked with major scientific organizations and universities to create next generation vetted internet content. Developing Semantic web strategies and helping to evolve the Digital Universe from a customized Mozilla browser to a browser independent platform using Dojo Ajax framework and a customized Media Wiki implementation called the Encyclopedia of Earth, a project headed by one of the Co-Founders of Wikipedia. He also worked on 3D data visualization of information sets from the Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster in 2004. This information was then overlaid onto a globe in web browser and tied into the DU.
 
John is currently the President of Feedia. Feedia is a Social Media consulting firm helping companies develop strategies in new media, leveraging podcasts, blogging, video and animation to create media in the web 2.0 landscape. Feedia helps its clients create compelling shows, buzz and business development opportunities. Distribution and consumption are key factor in this strategy and Feedia feels that RSS can extend the scope of your media as well as create audience growth.