Jon Lebkowsky is an author, social and cultural commentator, and a business strategist focused on the social web and collaborative technologies. He has written about culture, technology, media, sustainability and other topics for various publications, has been blogging regularly since blogs first appeared, and has been involved in various aspects of the Internet and the World Wide Web since 1990. He was part of the early 2000s social technology conversations that led to the concept of “web 2.0.”
He is cofounder and CEO of Plutopia Productions, a future-focused events and entertainment company. Before that, he was cofounder of Social Web Strategies, a company that does strategic web consulting and coordinates social media planning and web development. Prior to Social Web Strategies, he was cofounder and CEO of Polycot Consulting.
In 1991 he cofounded the pioneering online company FringeWare, Inc., the first company to attempt e-commerce. The company published the influential magazine FringeWare Review, which had an international distribution. he was involved in online community and e-commerce projects throughout the 1990s, and worked with bOING bOING (as associate editor for the original paper zine), HotWired, The Whole Earth Catalog, Electric Minds, and many other web and cyberculture projects and endeavors during the World Wide Web’s first decade. In the late 90s, he was actively involved in the creation of e-commerce and online community initiatives for Whole Foods Market. After leaving Whole Foods, he formed Polycot Consulting, one of Austin’s lead web consulting and development companies through the 2000s. He was involved in the emergence of social technology in the early 2000s, and has been a leader in the use of social technology for political activism. With Mitch Ratcliffe, he co-edited the book Extreme Democracy
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