Self Starter. Early Adopter. Go Getter. The first thing to learn about online communities is: you don't build them, you grow them. Foster the right mix of participation, culture, and technology. Communication, collaboration, and content are grown from these ingredients. And context is king. Ryan is passionate about driving adoption, creativity, design, systems thinking, and products. He is experienced in building brands, software, and communities. He focuses on software ecosystems, internet of things, community building, developer relations, good engineering, product development, digital transformation, and problem solving. He is known for user centered innovation with social media, community management, integrated marketing, event marketing, software development, b2b marketing, corporate branding, podcasting, UX, CX, user interaction design, personal branding, video streaming, live streaming, programming, Agile, Scrum.