This is the official website and blog (BrandMagnet™) of David Michael Kalman (San Francisco Bay Area). The company provided content marketing consulting and services for nearly 20 years.
About David Michael Kalman (updated 11/2025)
I started my professional media career in newspaper production (News Press Group, Qualitype Graphic Services, and Palomar Graphic Arts, 1980-1983) and soon found myself immersed in the computing revolution as Editor-in-Chief/VP of Data Based Advisor (Data Based Solutions, Inc., 1983-1990) and later as Editor-in-Chief of DBMS Magazine M&T Publishing/Miller Freeman/CMP Media, 1991-2004). (At age 24, I might have been the youngest chief editor in the computer press.) While at Miller Freeman, I crossed over to the publishing side, managing a media portfolio serving the database management and application development market. In 1998 I reorganized the DBMS and Database Programming & Design brands to create Intelligent Enterprise magazine and its online communities, the Intelligent Business Performance Management Conference, and later Transform Magazine. I left CMP at the end of 2003 and in 2004 incorporated Terrella Media to help marketers build brand communities using strategies I had learned in my publishing career. I recently dissolved the corporation and currently advise clients part time while I contemplate my next move (or my next Russian River paddling excursion).
Read about David on his LinkedIn profile.