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 the customers smart on social software, personal and shared information use systems, tagging (folksonomy), and cross platform design and development.
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Upcoming Presentations and Events
- February 29 "Coming to Terms with Sociality" at DC Design Talks
- March 4 "Making Data Actionable" panel at the Politics Online Conference
- March 9 on a panel about fitting you and your job to the right size organization at SXSW Interactive
- April 3 on a panel about Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 for Federal Information Resource Managers at the National Press Club
- April 10 & 11 Keynoting the ASIS&T Social Computing Summit
- May 1 Keynote presentation at NETC 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina
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 furture 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 serivces 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 multidisiplinary 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.
IA Konfrenz Presentation and Half-day Workshop in Stuttgart a Success
Thomas gave a well received presentation on "Bottom-up Tagging Can Get You to the Top" as well as a half-day workshop on "Building a Foundation for Tagging and the Social Web" at the IA Konferenz (German IA Conference) in Stuttgart, Germany on November 9 and 10, 2007.
ASIS&T Social IA Workshop Well Received
Thomas presented a full-day workshop at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Social IA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 20, 2008. The workshop was well received and covered foundations for understanding social software on the web and walked through many questions from attendees that drove the content and structure of the day.
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