Andy Gibson

Social technologist and co-founder of The School of Everything. Also founder and director of Sociability.

Originally trained as a socio-cultural historian, I began my professional career building corporate websites and intranets, before moving on to larger campaign sites like the national teacher recruitment website Those Who Can, Teach. Over the past few years I’ve designed and commissioned campaign websites, consultation systems, collaboration systems, e-learning resources and large-scale database software.

I've spent four years at Skillset leading the development of all their e-comms systems, and won a Web Marketing Association Award for Skillset Film. I also produced five acclaimed storyboard guides to the media and co-wrote the guide to film, which garnered national media coverage.

I’m a trained business analyst and have several years’ experience of business strategy, organsiational theory, storytelling and interactive production, particularly for education and knowledge management. I now specialise in modelling offline behaviours and developing technologies to allow groups and networks to work together and achieve more.

I’m also a student at the School for Social Entrepreneurs, and champion of Freeschools. I write two blogs and the occasional article, talk about my ideas and projects, and even do some training and group facilitation. In my free time I play the guitar and piano, sing badly, read graphic novels, and spend far too much time reading and thinking about social, cultural, economic and political issues. I blog (badly) about these topics on my personal blog, The New Sociablism.

I’m slowly realising that studying the history of periods of rapid social and technological change has actually been the perfect preparation for navigating the swirling waters of “the information age”.