Aldon has been using media socially since he shared his coloring books in kindergarten and fought over sections of the Sunday New York Times at the beach house in the Summer.

He’s been online since the 1970s on various bulletin boards, posted on Usenet since the early 1980s, built web sites and participated in virtual environments since the early 1990s.

In 2003, Mr. Hynes helped with DeanSpace a project to build software and websites for Gov. Dean’s 2004 Presidential bid and written chapters for a couple books about the experience.

Since then, he has helped politicians, non-profits, corporations and others use online social media tell their story online.

Mr. Hynes has been credentialed to cover many conferences and events from the 2004 Democratic National Convention to Online Marketing Conferences and Group Psychotherapy conferences. He has blogged about these experiences and many other topics on his blog, Orient Lodge.