Andy Gibson

Current

Head Gardener at Mindapples
Founder & Director at Sociability
Co-founder at School of Everything

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Education

School for Social Entrepreneurs
University of Cambridge

Recommended

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Connections

134 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

Andy Gibson’s Summary

I am a social media entrepreneur and product developer specialising in social innovation, collaboration tools and education. My aim is to promote knowledge-sharing and socialisation within communities through business leadership and the social applications of new technologies.

I began my career building corporate and campaign websites, including the national award-winning "Those Who Can, Teach" campaign site. I have also commissioned and produced interactive applications, rich media and e-learning materials for the media sector, including several storyboard guides to the media industries for Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Media Sector. Through my continuing work with Skillset I have been involved in projects with organisations as diverse as Channel 4, BBC, Bournemouth University and the UK Government. I was an editor of the original open-source magazine Pick Me Up.

I now specialise in social technology, business strategy and social enterprise, focussing particularly on online networks and "demand-efficient" business. In 2006 I co-founded the web 2.0 startup The School of Everything, which aims to make education accessible to all, by changing what education means. I am now developing this project as a student at the School for Social Entrepreurs, and have various other social and technological projects in the pipeline. I also started the mental health campaign Mindapples, which aims to use social media to find the mental health equivalent of eating five-a-day.

I believe in social software for social good, and in businesses and public services run in the interests of those who need them most.

Andy Gibson’s Specialties:

Business strategy and product development; campaign concepts and messaging; networks and collaboration; group facilitation and brainstorming; website commissioning; user experience; information architecture.

Andy Gibson’s Experience

Head Gardener

Mindapples

(Mental Health Care industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

A personal project, with lots of help from a few friends and associates, to find the mental health equivalent of eating five-a-day, and help people share what works for them online.
Founder & Director

Sociability

(Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Social technology consultancy advising businesses and non-profits how to maximise the value of social technologies and online tools for collaborative action and knowledge sharing.
Co-founder

School of Everything

(Internet industry)

October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Award-winning, high-growth web 2.0 start-up that connects local learners to passionate teachers in an eBay for face-to-face learning.