Valdis Krebs: Getting Technology and Sociology to Match

Valdis Krebs sees something brighter on the social media horizon. Krebs calls social networking websites “the landline of technology,” and declares that they will soon wear out their usefulness. He has nothing against social networking websites. In fact, Krebs has been on twitter longer than 95.8 percent of all twitter users. Be intrigued by his theories while watching him map the BIF-7 community. 

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Valdis Krebs

Valdis is a management consultant, researcher, trainer, author, and the developer of InFlow software for social and organizational network analysis. InFlow maps and measures knowledge exchange, information flow, emergent communities, networks of alliances and other connections within and between organizations and communities. Since 1987, Valdis has participated in over 500 SNA/ONA projects with clients such as IBM, Google, Edelman, Vodafone, Aventis, Solvay, Merck, Genentech, Cardinal Health, and Kaiser Permanente.

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