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Ryck Lent is a Senior Strategist at Leader Networks, a research and consulting firm that helps companies use digital and social technologies to gain competitive advantage. Ryck is a digital strategy veteran with more than 35 years of digital content and community product development and implementation experience. Ryck has worked with a wide range of organizations including: AARP, the AFL-CIO, the Democratic National Committee, portal services firm iBelong/Verlytics, Mainspring Communications, Monster.com. Ziff-Davis’ ZiffNet and ZDNet.

Among other accomplishments, Ryck pioneered downloadable software demos, weekly tech news interviews and a distance learning initiative at ZDNet; introduced social networking for early Web experts at Mainspring; created social networking affinity groups at iBelong/Verilytics and rebuilt Monster.com’s job seeker online community. Prior to his work with online communities, Ryck was a successful newspaper and magazine publishing entrepreneur.

He earned a BA from Antioch College and a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale University’s School of Management.