Principal, Speaker, & Sr. Consultant @ InfoCloud Solutions, Inc.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Principal, Senior Consultant, & Speaker at InfoCloud Solutions, Inc
- Steering Committee Member at Web Standards Project
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- Web Services Program Manager at INDUS Corporation
- Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture at Founding Advisory Board Member
- Co-founder and Tech Lead at Boxes and Arrows
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Thomas Vander Wal’s Summary
Thomas is a popular public speaker, workshop leader, and consultant/adviser on social software (particularly tagging and personal knowledge tools). 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 19 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.
Thomas puts the focus of his work on ease of use and ease of reuse targeting the 95% of people who do not live their life on the web, but need the services and information on the web in their life.
Thomas Vander Wal’s Specialties:
product development, information use, information reuse, Information architecture, tagging, folksonomy, social computing, social network, interaction design, peer review, cross-device design, cross-platform design, cross-medium design, application development, content management, accessibility, product assessment, Web standards, user-centered design, mobile Internet, folksonomy, InfoClouds, Personal InfoCloud, Local InfoCloud,
