About The Author

In 2004 Clay Johnson worked as a programer on Howard Dean's Presidential campaign. Johnson and three other members of Howard Dean's campaign staff started the company Blue Stage Digital. The technological company works with companies and individuals using media strategies to fundraise, network, and advocate for them. Clay Johnson and Blue Stage Digital worked with Barack Obama in 2008 to construct and manage his online presidency campaign. Other clients of Blue Stage Digital include Ted Kennedy and AT&T.

After a few years at Blue Stage Digital, Johnson left the company to become the director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation. Sunlight Labs, a non-partisan and non-profit group, attempts to increase the transparency of the government by making more government data open to the public. Clay Johnson gathered two thousand developers and designers to help achieve Sunlight Labs' goal of making government data accessible. While at Sunlight Labs, Johnson was awarded Google/O'Reilly Open Source Organizer of the year in 2009.

Along with the Google/O'Reilly Open Source Organizer of the year award, Johnson has be awarded multiple other times for his work throughout his professional career. He was on the Federal Computing Week’s Fed 100 in 2010 and won the CampaignTech Innovator award in 2011.

Clay Johnson released his first and only book, The Information Society, with publisher O'Reilly Media as an eBook in December of 2011. The print version of The Information Society was released in January of 2012. 

Even with all of Clay Johnson's experience in politics, as a developer, and in other fields, he credits his two year job as a waiter at the Waffle House in Atlanta, Georgia as where he learned all he needs to know.