Nicco Mele will be the Visiting Lecturer in the Murrow Chair. He will teach a Kennedy School course on the Internet as a mechanism for communication, with a special emphasis on its use in politics. He is the founder and president of EchoDitto, a leading Internet strategy consulting company. Mele has broad experience working with emerging technologies and is a considered a pioneer in the social media and Web 2.0 field. As the Internet operations director of Governor Howard Dean’s presidential primary campaign in 2003, Mele managed all technical, functional and design aspects of Gov. Dean’s national web presence. Following the Dean campaign, one of EchoDitto’s first clients was a then little-known state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama, who was running for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Mele is a co-founder of GeniusRocket.com, a crowd-sourced creative ad agency, and he is a co-founder of ProxyDemocracy.com, an online resource for proxy voting and shareholder resolutions. In fall 2008 Mele was a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
Nicco Mele
- Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer on the Practice of the Press and Public Policy
