Bob Boiko is a teacher, consultant, writer, programmer, and
itinerant businessman. Bob is currently President of Metatorial
Services, Inc. (www. metatorial. com) and Associate Chair of the
Masters of Science in Information Management (MSIM) program in the
iSchool at the University of Washington
(www. ischool. washington. edu). Bob teaches information systems
design, organizational management, and content management. He also
conducts seminars and lectures around the world as part of his
business. He has consulted on content management to a number of the
world's top technology and publishing firms, including
Microsoft, Boeing, Motorola, Honeywell, and Reed Elsevier. In
addition to this book, Bob has written more white papers, articles,
and reports than he cares to remember. Bob is helping to found and
is serving as the first president of CM Professionals
(www. cmprofessionals. org), a content management community of
practice.
Bob began programming in 1977 and has practiced it since (it was
always a great way to make money when he was broke). He entered the
modern computer age, however, not as a programmer but as a writer.
After earning undergraduate degrees in physics and oceanography and
a Master's degree in human communication, Bob got his start
in electronic information as a technical writer on contract at
Microsoft. Among other projects, he wrote more than half of the MS
DOS 5. 0 User's Guide and one of Microsoft's first
all-electronic User's Guides. From there, he began to develop
electronic information systems on local networks, floppy disks,
CD-ROMS, and when it was invented, the Web. In pursuit of
electronic information and then of content management, he has
created scores of applications and three businesses.
