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Kithbridge, Inc. was launched as an evolution of one of the blogosphere's original and most successful blog-tracking sites, The Truth Laid Bear. While The Truth Laid Bear provides a portal and blog search engine for individual bloggers and blog-readers, Kithbridge provides customized technology, services, and strategies for businesses, political campaigns, nonprofits, and other organizations which seek to fully engage with the growing and dynamic world of the blogosphere and new media. 
Kithbridge's founder and president is Rob Neppell, known online by the pseudonym "N.Z. Bear". In 2002, Rob created the first and still-definitive blog tracking system, The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, and over the past five years has earned a reputation as one of the key innovators in the new world of weblogs and citizens' media. For his efforts online, Rob was awarded the first-ever “Blogger of the Year” award in March 2007 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and is a member of The Heritage Foundation's New Media Advisory Board. In September 2007, in recognition of his work as founder of The Victory Caucus, Rob was honored to be invited to the White House to spend an hour with President Bush discussing the war in Iraq and the role of online media in the information war. Rob is co-founder with Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds of Porkbusters, and spearheaded the "Secret Hold" effort which resulted in the passage of the historic Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. Resurrecting a key government transparency bill from oblivion, the Secret Hold campaign was one of the most successful and effective online activism efforts ever, and provides an example of the kind of campaigns and creative solutions that Kithbridge can deliver for clients. In 2008, Rob co-founded Top Conservatives on Twitter with Michael Patrick Leahy, a non-profit activist group which has provided conservatives a rallying point in the new world of microblogging. And in January of this year, Rob and Kithbridge created ReadTheStimulus.org, an innovative site which has received over 1.3 million pageviews as citizens flocked to the site to view a searchable, commentable version of the 2009 economic stimulus legislation. Rob's dual passions for technology and media were on display even in his early years, when he earned a degree in Computer Science from Cornell University while at the same time working as a reporter and Assistant Managing Editor for the Cornell Daily Sun. Prior to founding Kithbridge, Rob had a successful career in traditional consulting, with thirteen years experience delivering technology solutions for clients with Andersen Consulting (later renamed Accenture) and Unisys Corporation. Kithbridge is a privately held California corporation, and has completed a first round of private investment financing. Definitions of "kith" and "bridge" from Merriam Webster Online |
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