Fulkerson is founder and board member at MindTouch,[2] a supplier of open source and collaborative network software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch with Steve Bjorg, Aaron was a member of Microsoft’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division, and worked on distributed systems research. Previously, he owned and operated a successful software and Information Technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP. He won a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship in 2002.[3]
Aaron advises Microsoft on open source practices, and is a founding advisory member of the OuterCurve Foundation (formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation).[4] He is also the technical editor to MCGraw Hill's "Implementing Enterprise 2.0." Aaron is a contributing blogger and writer for Forbes,[5] GigaOm OSTATIC,[6] TechWeb Internet Evolution,[7]Fortune Magazine, CNNMoney.com,[8] CMSWire[9] and ReadWriteWeb.[10]
In 2008, Aaron was cited one of seven "Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists" by ReadWriteWeb.[11] Aaron is also a frequent speaker on the topics of enterprise software, Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM (SCRM), open source, education, and entrepreneurship,[12][13][14][15]
In March 2010, he was named on the Mindtouch website as the forty-sixth in the list of "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".[16]
