About
Brian and Mohini I am a social entrepreneur living in Seattle, specializing in science related, nonprofit, and small business web sites and social media, and married to Mohini Patel Glanz AKA Mango Power Girl. I am the acting executive director of the Open Science Foundation, a nonprofit venture to improve science outreach and communications. There are at least a half dozen men named Brian Glanz but no women, I think :) I started this site in the '90s when everyone I knew was using AltaVista to look people up. There was no Google, but search had arrived. BrianGlanz.net was and still is to help tell me apart from other Brians Glanz. I haven't actually met another Brian Glanz. I'm a little worried they resent the way I grab usernames and URLs like brian.glanz for Skype, Slashdot, Gmail and Google, or .../brianglanz at MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr. They might be less annoyed by my offbeat profiles, like at the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, LibraryThing, or the International High IQ Society. I have been online since before browsers and I have worked in web-based software for over ten years, so I have a leg up. People looking for the other Brians often find me first; I try to patch them through. Sorry, other Brians. I am in no position to write an autobiography, but in what I do online and off, I often think of Gandhi's autobiography, The Story of My Experiments With Truth. He wrote: "I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth ... as my life consists of nothing but those experiments." My guiding principles are best represented in the scientific method. I document some of my experiments here, thus the icon next to my name. To start 2009, I published a daily blog about compassion, CompassionRise, seeking the ethical heart of a scientific and civil society. This site is more of a personal hub, though as most of my writing is wherever it belongs on the web. You may find me in the comments section and occasionally as the primary author at general sites like BBC, MSNBC, Newsvine, et al., or at more specific sites like Slashdot or The Huffington Post. I am tempted to summary words, but for the whole About Me bit, I don't have one answer. If questions are truth, then I find my share.
b, this is slick. nice site.
Thanks Nick. Sorry I didn’t see this comment sooner to thank you, and sorry for London and Arsenal that Seattle Sounders FC signed Freddie Ljungberg.
Second thought — about us signing Freddie — no I’m not ;)
Hey Chief, where is your portfolio of software work? I want to refer you.
Terry, first of all — thanks.
For compliance with NDAs, I manage access to portfolios and even present custom versions. I am exceedingly careful to not share competition-sensitive information between former and current or potential employers.
I can reach out to them directly, or tell me who they are and I will give you their authentication, or give them my contact information.
In any case, you can always point people to my contact page.
I could make a public version, but the good stuff is under NDA. I share what I can sans risk and don’t want to misrepresent capabilities. Still, I will add a public portfolio to my queue, it smacks as a good idea.
Ive come across your site a few different times. First time to look at your About me page. Im Bryan Glanz…Spelled in a different way. I own my vanity urls and names as well. And there are a few Bryans’ too.
First Come First Serve.
Have a good one sir! If I ever make it to Seattle, Ill look you up and we can potentially check of meeting someone with the same name off our list.!