Linux Journal
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Berkman Center at Harvard
Fellow
Center for IT & Society at UCSB
Doc Searls is well known as a visionary, a blogger, an open-source software advocate, and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, which in 1999 articulated the impact of the Internet in 95 theses. At the Berkman Center, Doc has pioneered the development of VRM (Vendor Relationship Management Systems) to liberate customers and improve markets by creating a productive balance of power in relationships between supply and demand. A featured speaker at countless events and trade shows, his writings have appeared in OMNI, Wired, PC Magazine, The Standard, and Release 1.0, among others, and he has consulted, on behalf of his company, The Searls Group, for clients such as Hitachi, Sun, Apple, Nortel, Borland, British Telecom, and Motorola. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman calls Doc 'one of the most respected technology writers in America.' In 2005, he won the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator and in 2007 he was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in IT by eWeek.
- Social technologies are changing companies from the outside in and from the bottom up. What is the best way for organizations to respond?
- As social technologies change the way leaders interact with customers, employees, & partners, what one thing should they do to prepare for this change?
- How can the Internet change the fundamental economics of products and services?
