Michael Turk is president of Opinion Mover Strategies, a communications consulting firm in Washington, DC.
In his professional career, Turk has lived at the intersection of politics, public policy and technology – crossing from the political, to the commercial and into government. He has managed the Internet operations for three Presidential campaigns and the Republican National Committee; managed e-Government projects at the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Energy; and worked with Grassroots Enterprise – an Internet focused public affairs firm – as a technology and activism consultant.
Most recently, Turk served as Vice President of Industry Grassroots for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association before leaving to launch his own company. Turk is passionate about telecom policy and technology developments. While at NCTA, Turk launched CableTechTalk.com – the cable industry’s blog.
Turk also writes (and rants) on his own blog at KungFuQuip. He is married and has two mostly wonderful children.
[ 2006] As Vice President of Industry Grassroots for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Michael Turk is working to build a robust grassroots activist base for the cable industry. Using experience gained in more than 12 years of campaign politics and Internet activism, Turk is employing traditional grassroots organizing and sophisticated web based tools to carry the cable industry’s message to Congress and state legislatures.Before joining NCTA, Turk served as the eCampaign Director at the Republican National Committee overseeing the Internet operations and online activism for the GOP. The eCampaign combined the party’s communications, activism, and financial support initiatives and delivered them online – providing an online component to every offline activity.
Prior to that, Turk was the eCampaign Director for Bush-Cheney 04 and oversaw the most sophisticated online campaign in history, marshalling the resources of 7.5 million Internet activists to communicate the President’s message and turn out the largest vote for President in generations.
Turk has lived at the intersection of politics and technology – crossing from the political, to the commercial and into government. Beginning in 1994 with the creation of one of the first state party websites on the Internet, he has served as the e-Government Portfolio Manager for Government-to-Citizen projects at the Office of Management and Budget; redeployed the Department of Energy’s internet presence at energy.gov; and worked with Grassroots Enterprise – an Internet focused public affairs firm – as a technology and activism consultant.
