Sunlight Foundation Team Member
Clay Johnson
Clay is the Director of Sunlight Labs. Prior to joining Sunlight, Clay was one of the founders of Blue State Digital, the premier technology and online strategy firm responsible for the creation of My.BarackObama.com. Under his tenure as the organization's lead salesperson and business development manager the organization went from zero to eight million dollars a year in revenue, earning the company the Inc 5,000 award in 2008. In 2004, Johnson was the lead programmer for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, helping to reinvent politics online. Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a technologist at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) where he helped to develop the company's Web syndication product. Johnson was one of Fast Company's Fast 50 in 2006, Google and O'Reilly's Open Source Community Builder of the Year for 2009, and one of 2010's Federal Computer Week's Fed 100.
Recent blog contributions from Clay Johnson
- Our next contest: Design for America March 17, 2010
- Introducing POIA March 16, 2010
- Lobbyists and White House Visitors March 9, 2010
- Every Non-Profit is an Open Government Non-Profit February 19, 2010
- What if we Google Buzzed Government? February 18, 2010
- Are the American People short on ideas? February 16, 2010
- What if Government had a Google Buzz Moment? February 12, 2010
- Free yourself from the Shackles of "High Value Data" February 11, 2010
- How to Request Datasets from Government Right Now February 11, 2010
- The Coming Government Data Flood February 10, 2010
- DC Gov Builds Amazing Open Gov Dashboard February 8, 2010
- Citability Codeathon January 21, 2010
- How to Manage Large Volunteer Hackathons January 19, 2010
- Evaluating /Open pages January 19, 2010
- CrisisCamp DC Wrapup January 19, 2010
- Sunlight Labs + CrisisCamp DC: Haiti January 14, 2010
- Watch Congress in Real Time on your iPhone January 13, 2010
- GovPulse wins Apps for innovation January 11, 2010
- Federal Agencies: How to Score an Easy Transparency Win by Monday. January 8, 2010
- Help Build Neighborhoods by Building Neighborly January 4, 2010
- What do you think of USA.gov? January 4, 2010
- What's The Plan for 2010? December 29, 2009
- Year 1 in Review December 23, 2009
- Great American Hackathon Wrap-up December 22, 2009
- Watching the Open Government Initiative December 14, 2009