Ease Information Reuse
InfoCloud Solutions helps ease the interaction between
an organization's information and the people interested in it,
so people may use and reuse it easily to meet needs in their life.
InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. is Thomas Vander Wal's company supporting his advising, consulting, speaking, and training. The focus of the company is on getting his customers smart on social tools inside and outside organizations, personal and shared information use systems, tagging (folksonomy), improving user experience, and cross platform design and development.
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Upcoming Presentations and Events
- June 25 "Social tagging to unlock the collective intelligence" presentation at Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Varase, Italy (near Milan)
- June 26 & 27 Reboot 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark
- June 30 Building the Social Web Workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark
Coming To Terms With Sociality at dev.aol.com a Smash Hit
Thomas' recent presentation to dev.aol.com on "Coming to Terms with Sociality" was a smash hit. Feedback from this presentation has been very positive and the organizers have been getting rave reviews and flooded with requests for the video and slides from the presentation.
Thomas Vander Wal Listed at Enterprise 2.0 Leader
Nial Cook (Worldwide Director of Marketing Technology at Hill and Knowlton and founder and chairmen of Cogenz put together a list of Enterprise 2.0 Oscars and lists Thomas Vander Wal as nominated for the "The Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Award (for making business leaders consider Enterprise 2.0 seriously)". The nomination is deeply appreciated.
Percpetions Matrix Unveilled at the Social Tagging And Knowledge Organization Workshop
Thomas Vander Wal publicly presented his Matrix of Perception conceptual model at the Social Tagging and Knowledge Organization Workshop in Tübingen, Germany (live video presentation) in his Keeping Up With Social Tagging presentation. Thomas will be writing about the Matrix of Perception, which is comprised of the Faces of Perception and Depth of Perception in the near future at Personal InfoCloud.
Well Received Presentation to Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies brought in Thomas to present social bookmarking to its member conference on web publishing. Many of the publications already have some means of providing social sharing of their articles and reviews, but are finding the existing services are not providing the value they should be getting from them.
Spend a Day with STIET
Thomas spent January 18, 2008 at the University of Michigan's STIET Program meeting with scholars, professors, students, and those with related interests. The program is a multidisciplinary graduate program covering business, economics, information science, and related disciplines. The day of eight meetings included a 90 minute presentation that was broadcast over a high definition network to students and faculty at Wayne State.
Book for O'Reilly Progressing
Thomas Vander Wal&s book on social bookmarking and folksonomy is progressing well. The book will cover in depth the subject matter that is provided in the workshops and presentations on the subject, but will go into more depth. The book will include interviews and insights into those building the next generation of social bookmarking tools.
MIT Technology Review Interviews Vander Wal Regarding Google's Cloud
Thomas Vander Wal was interviewed and quoted through out the MIT Technology Review article "Google's Cloud Looms Large". Thomas was asked about the what the Google offering and what it may potentially bring that others have not been able to do as of yet.
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