Marc Solomon has been a knowledge architect, search manager, and competitive intelligence director in the acronym-laced world of strategic consulting (PwC, PRTM, FSG, and FIND/SVP) as well as tech services (BellSouth, Avid Technology, and Hyperion Solutions).He currently works in the office of the CTO at The Hartford insurance company. He’s presented on search, metadata, taxonomy, and Knowledge-ABLED practices through the Boston KM Forum, Enterprise Search Summit, Gilbane, SIKM (Systems Integrators KM Leaders), and KMA Associates.
From 2005 to 2010 he was an adjunct professor in Boston University’s Professional Investigation Program where he trained budding PIs on using the web to crack criminal cases, including instruction in digital media research and information literacy.
Mr. Solomon is a contributing columnist to several trade magazines on enterprise knowledge tools, practices and business cases including Searcher, Baseline, and KM World where he contributed a year-long “reality series” of SharePoint case deployment profiles. Solomon has addressed the realities of day-to-day content management as an expert blogger in the AIIM SharePoint Community.
Most recently he launched an Open Source Intelligence (“OSINT”) program at the Montague Book Mill for mid-career professionals as founder of the Society for Useful Information, whose mission is to improve the quality of digital literacy and research practices throughout Western New England.
Solomon holds a BA in the History of Technology from Hampshire College and a Masters in Professional Studies from the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. He lives with his wife Patty, Jaspurr the cat, and occasionally their three grown children in a home with no smart speakers and where no one searches in silence.
