Joan Blades is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to finding and promoting common-ground solutions to public policy issues. Although only launched September 22 of this year, MoveOn.org has garnered 300,000 petition signers, 3000 active volunteers, and generated more than 1 million communications to Congress. Going beyond "virtual" action, moveon.org organized events in 219 congressional offices in 44 states on October 29th, and a get-out-the-vote drive that reached 4 million people on the day before the election.
Ms. Blades is a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems is best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. She is also the co-founder of Cavort Learning Systems, an Internet education startup.
Prior to her work in consumer software, Ms. Blades taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, wrote a book on Divorce Mediation published by Prentice Hall, and practiced mediation. She is a non-active member of the California and Alaska bar associations. Ms. Blades is also an artist, with works published on greeting cards and software packaging.
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Wes Boyd is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to finding and promoting common-ground solutions to public policy issues. Although only launched September 22 of this year, MoveOn.org has garnered 300,000 petition signers, 3000 active volunteers, and generated more than 1 million communications to Congress. Going beyond "virtual" action, moveon.org organized events in 219 congressional offices in 44 states on October 29th, and a get-out-the-vote drive that reached 4 million people on the day before the election
Mr. Boyd is a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems is best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. He is also the co-founder of Cavort Learning Systems, an Internet education startup.
In the 1980s, prior to his work in consumer software, Mr. Boyd authored software for blind and visually impaired users allowing full access to Macintosh computers, for which he received the ComputerWorld-Smithsonian award for technical innovation. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Boyd served at the University of California as a senior staff programmer on research projects.