Alan Levine is Vice President, NMC Community and Chief Technology Officer for the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies..

Alan is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web going back to 1993. An early proponent of blogs and RSS for information sharing, he shares his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog (cogdogblog.com).  More recently, he has been interested in new forms of web 2.0 storytelling, such as his 50 Web2.0 Ways To Tell a Story, as well as the ever expanding range of social/professional networking tools for connecting and sharing what we do online.