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Michael Jon Jensen |
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![[Michael Jon Jensen, 2006]](mj_headshot_2_2007.jpg "[Michael Jon Jensen, 2006]") |
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Michael Jensen in 2006 courtesy jay mallin photos |
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Michael Jensen in 2022 courtesy of time. |
In August of 2022, Michael Jensen "retired," and has been able to work exclusively on the public interest projects that have been bubbling like a rich stew for sometimes decades. He is CEO/Founder of mwmwm, inc., the umbrella corporate entity for these projects. First among them is the "Commons Communities" project, designed to be hyperlocal infrastructure to address some of the unique challenges of rural communities. This online platform enables rural folks to self-organize microregionally, to save $$$ and energy, while providing the platform for Want Ads, Business Listings, shared Events Calendars, Groups, and discussion Topics.
A wonderful example of the spirit and
practice of a Commons can be seen in a under three-minute Youtube video that
the Managers created for the Ferdinand, Indiana Commons. Take a look! We currently have three installations at various stages of engagement, and have worked out most of the
issues of providing a platform for community self-organizing.
If you're interested in starting another in your small community, contact Michael.
A fun choose-your-own-persona Demo is available
at CommonsTown.com.
He also recently resurrected his 2006 "WordXS Puzzles" in an interactive form, to much delight: WordaXity! Give it a try!From late 2015 until August 2022, Michael Jensen was Director of Technology at Westchester Publishing Services, the premier US-based, employee-owned provider of composition, editorial, and other services to book publishers. He led the development of a company-wide digital production system that provides clients an unprecendented view into schedules and processes, provides staff in three continents with highly effective production management tools, and provides managers with detailed reports on production matters.
From 1998 - 2007, Michael Jensen was the Director of Publishing Technologies for the National Academies Press, leading their groundbreaking online publishing program which made more than 4,000 reports of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free (www.nap.edu). The NAP site received more than 1.5 million visitors per month on average, and boasted of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher's site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen, and many of which remain in use today. The National Academies Press, to Michael's delight, has continued to grow access to the reports of the National Academies, and open access is considered a natural part of nonprofit publishing business models. In 2001, he received the National Academies' "President's Award," its highest staff honor.
In 2007 Michael Jensen was appointed Director of Strategic Web Communications for the Office of Communications of the National Academies as well as the National Academies Press.
In 2012 he left the Academies to start a sustainable organic farm in Nova Scotia with his wife, while still consulting in the field, teaching courses in digital publishing for the Master's in Publishing program at George Washington University, as well as leading occasional multi-day seminars internationally.
Previously, Michael Jensen was Electronic Publisher at the Johns Hopkins University Press, and Electronic Media Manager at the University of Nebraska Press. He has been involved in publishing on the Internet since 1989 and is a frequent speaker and consultant on electronic publishing issues. He has directed or guided such projects as the first searchable online publisher's catalog, a dozen major CD-ROM products, the Gallery of the Open Frontier, the online publication of several large reference works for Johns Hopkins University Press, The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (winner of the Association of American Publisher's 1997 "Best Electronic Product – Internet – Social Sciences/Humanities" award), and Walker's Mammals of the World Online, as well as the pioneering online journals project of the Johns Hopkins University Press, Project Muse, which made more than 5,000 articles from 42 journals available for institutional online subscription in HTML format. To Michael's continuing delight, Project Muse continues to grow, and is now among the most important scholarly resources in the world.
Mr. Jensen invented content-clustering "find more like this" systems via semantic extraction and valuation tools, invented and published PalindromXS, and was coeditor of the comedy doomsday site ApocaDocs from 2009 to 2016. It still limps on, providing a summary of "this day in ecocide" from that period, back when it was obvious there were problems, we could have fixed things lots easier, but hardly anybody wanted to hear, or listen, much less act.
Some of Michael Jon Jensen's Publications and Presentations:
