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I was delighted to speak on "Bioteams: Turning Audiences into Communities" to a lively audience in Brighton (UK) at an event "New Frontiers in Social Media" organised by Use8 - The User Experience Society. You can get a copy of my slides here.

Photo Source: The Sowelu Theatre Ensemble

Heres my presentation

Heres some photos from the event and heres a great summary blog post by Gareth Simmons.

Also watch this space for the results of a very dynamic audience participation session by mobile phone on topics as wide ranging as social media, the banking crisis and the rich cultural history of Brighton.

Ken Thompson is an expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books:

Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs

The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks

Ken writes the highly popular bioteams blog which has over 500 articles on all aspects of bioteams (aka organizational biomimicry) - in other words how human groups can learn from nature's best teams.

Ken is also founder of an exciting European technology company Swarmteams which provides unique patent-pending bioteaming technologies for all shapes and sizes of groups, social networks, business clusters, virtual/mobile communities and enterprises. Swarmteams enables groups to be more responsive and agile by fully integrating their mobile phones and the web with bioteam working techniques.

The latest Swarmteams implementation is SwarmTribes which helps social object owners (e.g. musicians/bands, sports teams, film-makers) and good cause sponsors (e.g. Volunteering, Environmental, Public Health) to form unique collaborations with their fans/supporters for mutual benefit.

Bioteams Books Reviews

Animal Instincts in the office

May 29, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Just because we might have selfish genes it does not mean we have to behave selfishly; nature knows when to be nice as well as nasty and nepotism occurs in the biological world too with equal destructiveness as our world. This is according to Richard Conniff author of The Ape in the Corner Office and reviewed in the UK Guardian Newspaper (27 May).

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Social software group dynamics: Clay Shirky

October 13, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Social Networking (35)

One of the papers I re-read lately is Clay Shirky's landmark speech at ETech in 2003 "A group is its own worst enemy" where he identifies 4 principles for social software/social network design. These principles are every bit as relevant today as they were 5 years ago.

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Instant Business Guide to LinkedIn

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I have been amazed at how many people have asked me for a really simple and very short guide to LinkedIN for small businesses and independent consultants. So here it is:

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The Web2.0 Business Development System

October 31, 2010 | article by Ken Thompson in Social Networking (35)

Based on hard-won experience I have pulled together a comprehensive model to help enterprises health-check/audit whether they are fully exploiting the many great tools available (mostly free) to turbo-charge their outbound, inbound and two-way sales and marketing communications. Download the full model for free here!

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