Experience

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  Massaemett Media

  • Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States

  • Writer

    • Sep 2016 - Present
    • Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States

    Author of forthcoming book, "Fire in a Wire: How Electricity is Driving the Evolution of a New Species of Human" Since the advent of The Electric Age in the mid-19th century, the proliferation of electronic devices and applications, and other manifestations of electricity in human society, are leading us to evolve beyond Homo sapiens. Not just in the future, but now.Author of "Gettin' Home: An Odyssey Through The '60s." A saga of triumph and loss, sex and drugs, love and murder, joy and sorrow set amidst the turbulent times and musical revolutions of the era. "A fascinating memoir...even poetic at times" (The Berkshire Eagle). Read excerpts at www.gettinhome.com. Available on Amazon.

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  WiredWest Communications Cooperative Corporation

  • Western Massachusetts

  • Member Emeritus of the Board of Directors

    • Jul 2010 - Dec 2020
    • Western Massachusetts

    WiredWest is a municipal cooperative working with small towns in western Massachusetts to bring fiber-to-the-premises gigabit broadband service to residents, businesses and institutions. The project is vital to the economic well-being and quality of life in the region. Steve is a founding member of the Board of Directors of WiredWest and served for nearly five years on its Executive Committee and as its Legal/Governance Chair. At present towns are using state grants and municipal borrowing to build town-owned FTTP networks. WiredWest, through its subcontractor Westfield Gas + Electric, provides customer services and network operations to several towns, including his town of Washington, where its network came online in 2020. For more information go to www.wiredwest.net

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  Music Museum Of New England, Inc.

  • Greater Boston Area

  • President & Co-Founder

    • 2007 - Aug 2019
    • Greater Boston Area

    MMONE is a virtual museum whose mission is "to preserve, honor and showcase New England's musical heritage." It has been building a comprehensive website at www.mmone.org about the artists, places, media and music business people who have contributed to making Boston and New England a world-class center and incubator for rock, folk, jazz, classical and other music genres. It is creating the Boston Music Trail to put historical markers on sites of musical significance in the city. Steve was the manager of the legendary 1960s rock and blues club The Boston Tea Party and owner of The Woodrose Ballroom in western Massachusetts. In 1968 he participated in the relaunch of former classical station WBCN-FM as a pioneering "free-form" rock station, creating its branding as "The American Revolution," now the subject of an award-winning documentary by Lichtenstein Creative Media about the station, the Tea Party and the politics of that era.

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  The Nelson Network, Inc.

  • Massachusetts

  • Founder, President & Executive Producer

    • 1987 - 2009
    • Massachusetts

    Steve was the creator and anchor of The Cable Channel, the leading source for business-to-business video programming about cable TV, broadband and consumer electronics. It aired via closed-circuit TV at conventions and conferences, as well as by satellite and streaming video, with coverage and analysis of the "hot trends and cool products" driving the business. It presented interviews, panel discussions and feature stories with leading executives, analysts and journalists, and was sponsored by cable programmers, technology vendors and service providers. Steve was inducted into the honorary society Cable TV Pioneers in 2008. He has donated The Cable Channel's library of over 3,000 videotapes to The Cable Center in Denver to establish the Steve Nelson Video Archive.

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  Strategic Communications, Inc.

  • Boston, MA

  • Founder & President

    • 1983 - 1986
    • Boston, MA

    Marketing and communications consultant to the emerging PC business. Served as outsourced marketing arm for Think Technologies, which developed programming languages that enabled the launch of the Macintosh, and which created InBox, the first e-mail package for the Mac; the company was acquired by Symantec. Branded and launched One-Write Plus, popular small-business accounting software, for a subsidiary of International Data Group; the product was acquired by Peachtree Software. Developed and raised capital for a vertical magazine about Digital Equipment Corporation's personal computers, in partnership with Bernie Goldhirsh, founder of Inc. Magazine.

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  Northeast Solar Energy Center

  • Cambridge/Boston

  • Manager, Government & Public Affairs

    • 1977 - 1982
    • Cambridge/Boston

    NESEC was a pioneering public-private partnership to foster awareness of and drive the market for renewable energy technologies. Multidisciplinary staff analyzed barriers to the adoption of renewables; developed and provided information, education and training; ran solar photovoltaic demonstration at 1980 Winter Olympics. Steve directed "Operation Sunpower" marketing and promotion campaign which in one year doubled the number of solar water heaters installed in the Northeast. The Public Relations Society of America awarded the campaign its Silver Anvil, the Oscar (R) of PR.

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  The Boston Tea Party

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • General Manager

    • 1967 - 1968
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Responsible for all areas of operation of this legendary rock and blues club. Subsequently (1969-70) produced and promoted shows in western Massachusetts at The Woodrose Ballroom (South Deerfield) and Paramount Theater (Springfield). Most closely associated with The Velvet Underground, called by Rolling Stone magazine "the most influential American rock band of all time."