About
Thomas is an Analyst for Gigaom Research and a consultant, adviser, and strategist for to those working with, building, managing, or considering social software and its information management for organization’s intranet and web properties. He has been building, designing, and managing social software since 1996 and has an abundance of lessons learned around assessment, development and designing for optimal interactions, innovating, iterating, managing, and planning planning for what is needed initially as well as what to expect and plan for down in the near and not so distant future.
Thomas is also a popular public speaker, mentor, and workshop leader across a broad array of subjects including: Emergent information structures (folksonomy), social web (Web 2.0), social intranet (enterprise 2.0 and social business), web develop and design, mobile development and design, user experience, information management, information use and reuse, and knowledge management. His in-house sessions have customer’s raving about immediate returns his frameworks provide in their approaches to their development and design processes.
Building upon 23 years of professional experience in information systems, internet, mobile and web design and development he has developed innovative means to create efficient interactions between those providing the information and media and those people wanting, needing, and using that information and media. Thomas connects the business goals to the people that desire the products, content, and media using models that put focus on the most efficient means for all parties involved. He believes well structured information is the starting point for information use.
