Scott Gavin

Education

Canterbury Christ Church University

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Information Technology and Services

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Scott Gavin’s Summary

Scott has been both implementing and evangelizing the use of new web technologies and trends for business since 2005. He truly believes Enterprise 2.0 tools can power next generation collaboration and innovation in any business.

Scott currently holds the following positions:

* Founder of Applied Trends (a UK Partner for Knowledge Plaza)
* Chief Strategy Officer for Whatever Company, creators of Knowledge Plaza and MicroPlaza

Applied Trends is a UK based consultancy who help medium to large size organizations collaborate and innovate with external partners or internally, using new web technologies.

Applied Trends also offers on the safe and effective use of the technology, originally developed for knowledge and information professionals but now being rolled out to a wider audience.

In addition, Applied Trends are also the UK representative for Knowledge Plaza, probably the best enterprise knowledge management and social search solution you will find!

Scott started Applied Trends after a number of very successful years implementing wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and other Web 2.0 tools for some of the world’s largest companies. Scott’s work, views and ideas in the area of Enterprise 2.0 (the application of Web 2.0 tools for business) have gained him international acclaim and recognition.

Scott has spoken at some of the largest and most respected industry events around the world, to which businesses attend to learn more about the benefits and opportunities of leveraging this new tool set.

In addition to authoring the hit presentation 'Meet Charlie', Scott has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry including Dion Hinchcliffe, the Web 2.0 University and Whatever Company.

Scott Gavin’s Specialties:

Project Management, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0, Social Software, Social Media, Marketing, MediWiki, Drupal, wiki, blog, Movable Type, Wordpress, Social Bookmarking, Tagging, blogging, Sharepoint, web2.0, tagging

Scott Gavin’s Education

Canterbury Christ Church University

My educational achievements include a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business and IT, a BTEC GNVQ Advanced Certificate in Business and IT, a Diploma in Marketing and an award for Business Student of the Year in 1996 for a BTEC First Diploma in Business Studies. I am also PRINCE2 (Projects In Controlled Environments) qualified.

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Scott Gavin’s Interests:

I'm passionate about helping businesses explore and exploit the opportunities presented by web 2.0. Whether it be the use of social software to improve collaboration and communication or applying the cultural aspects of some of the most successful and inspirational movements we are seeing on the internet.