As Mequoda Group's Executive Director, Don works directly with member organizations to help them each build and operate their own unique Mequoda Content Marketing System. He leads more than 50 educational programs each year, writes dozens of Mequoda Daily posts, and works tirelessly with other publishing service organizations to help the industry make the transition from print to digital publishing.

Don began his media career as a writer and producer for AFRTS in 1976. Over the next 30 plus years, he has worked in every major communications medium with hundreds of media brands. Don has founded six successful media service companies, three magazines, and more than 50 newsletters. He has guided the launch and development of hundreds of successful media properties. In 2000, Don founded Blue Dolphin Magazines to help more than 1,400 magazine, newsletter and newspaper publishers sell print subscriptions online. In 2004, Don and his partners founded Mequoda Group to help all publishers master the Internet and its power to revolutionize the communications industry. Today, Mequoda Group's 18-person team services more than 21,000 members in more than 130 countries.

Mequoda Systems Consultant

Don serves as the lead consultant for 20 Mequoda Group member organizations including Aspire Media, Business & Legal Resources, Capitol Information Group, Vida y Salud, Harvard University, Group Publishing, Guideposts, Meredith, Time Inc, and TSI Network. He works alongside clients to discover their strategic goals and then helps them build systems and organizations to realize those goals.

Mequoda Course Leader

If you'd like to learn more about the Mequoda Content Marketing System directly from Don Nicholas, 2010 offers you more than 50 public and private opportunities including the annual Mequoda Summits in Napa Valley and Boston, the FIPP Digital Publishing Certification Program, our new one-day Content Marketing 2010 Seminar in Washington DC, New York and Boston, plus the SiPA/Mequoda Live Webinar Series and Mequoda Pro Webinars on Demand. Don is also available to do private Mequoda System Workshops for individual member organizations on request.