Andy Gibson

Digital engagement and social technology mentor

Also teaches in All over London and SE, will travel elsewhere on expenses
Andy Gibson | Digital engagement and social technology mentor
Rates: Standard rate £700/day, but negotiable for those doing good stuff.
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I use the internet to change culture, and teach people how to build new businesses and campaigns.

I mentor organisations on using technology, online and offline, to mobilise the energy of their communities. If you're about to spend money on an expensive new website, I can help you achieve more by spending less - whether it's blogs, wikis, social networking or something simpler.

As co-founder of the School of Everything, founder of the Mindapples campaign, founder and director of Sociability and with nine years of internet projects behind me, I've got lots of experience of digital business and campaigning. I'm also a historian by training, so my interest is in the impact of technology and not technology for its own sake.

This is a new field and out-of-the-box advice doesn't work. I'm good at asking the right questions, clarifying your objectives and helping you work out what you need. I'm passionate about participation and engaging people to follow their enthusiasms, share their experiences and pass on what they know.

Services

Ages: 18 +
Online teaching offered

Public Classes

Blogging for Organisations

How can blogging help you promote and expand your business? Getting the technology is just the start. What should you write? What kind of tone should you be setting, and how? What are the risks, and how can you avoid them? And how do you get people reading it in the first place?

In one day, I will take your business through the pros and cons of corporate blogging, what they are best suited to, the common traps you should avoid, how to promote your blog and engage with your audience, and how to minimise risks to your brand and reputation. We'll also cover how to support your staff in changing the way they communicate, and even how blogs can help you with your internal processes too.

It's a practical workshop, with real examples of good and bad practice and enough actual writing during the day to give your staff real practical skills. By the end of it, the participants will be more confident of writing high quality blog posts, and your organisation will have a clear action plan for how to get the most out of your blog.

It's a: 
class
Venue: 
School of Everything, 18 Victoria Park Square
Location: 
Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom
Date and time: 
Arranged at a time convenient to your business
Rates: 
£500

Private lessons

Crash course in web 2.0

Don't know your Facebook from your Bebo? Too scared to blog? And what is a wiki anyway?

Social media is affecting the way we do everything online, and even shaping our offline activities too. There's a lot to get your head around, but if you can explain what you're trying to achieve, I'll pick out the parts that are relevant and make them simple for you. I can also help with advice on free and cheap collaboration tools, good sites to look at, and the wider theory of how and why the internet became "social".

Teaching locations: 
I teach from home (or a fixed venue)
Teaching locations: 
I travel to students
Location: 
School of Everything, 18 Victoria Park Square, London, United Kingdom
Rates: 
£300 per half-day workshop

Organisational Design

If you're starting a new organisation or working to reinvent an existing one, I can help you through the process, propose models you could use, coach you through the complexities of managing individual and collective interests, and support you through the change management required.

Teaching locations: 
I teach from home (or a fixed venue)
Teaching locations: 
I travel to students
Location: 
School of Everything, 18 Victoria Park Square, London, United Kingdom
Rates: 
Negotiable

Experience

Social Technology Projects

Co-founder and COO of the School of Everything.

Founder and Director of social technology consultancy Sociability, which has received national press coverage and produced the acclaimed RSA Networks project and developed grassroots community networks for local government and non-profit clients.

Prior to that, I spent four years at Skillset commissioning campaign websites, collaboration tools and database systems. Won a Web Marketing Association Award for Skillset Film and produced five highly acclaimed storyboard guides to the media industries.

I was an occasional editor of open source magazine Pick Me Up, and contributor to The Idler. I also produced social campaign websites including Those Who Can, Teach national teacher recruitment website. My partnership projects include work with the BBC, Channel 4, National Film & Television School and Trampoline Systems.

Dates: 
Sep 2000 - Dec 2007

Educational history

London Programme

Dates: 
April 2007 - April 2008
Institution: 
School for Social Entrepreneurs
Student on the 2007 Programme at this innovative leadership school, originally founded by legendary social entrepreneur and Which? founder Michael Young.

History (BA Hons)

Dates: 
October 1996 - June 1999
Institution: 
University of Cambridge (Selwyn College)
Specialised in the Renaissance, Reformation and Revolutionary Periods, particularly religious and cultural change and political thought.

THE SMALL PRINT

Prompt payment greatly appreciated

Noticeboard

Future 500

Strangely, I was recently included in the Observer Future 500 list of UK up-and-comers, in the Science and Technology section. I am writing to you from the future now. It's sunny here, and we all have hoverboots.

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