By edith on 06-24-2010

This video originally post on TED.

Meet Clay Shirky, Clay divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.

In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Shirky is an adjunct professor in NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology — how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.

Clay has written extensively about the internet since 1996. Over the years, he has had regular columns in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and ACM Net_Worker, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Wired, Release 1.0, Computerworld, and IEEE Computer.

In this video, Clay discusses:

• How text messaging and social media tools are changing how governments work in the US, Nigeria and China
• What really matter is not technical capital. It’s social capital. These tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. It’s when everybody can take for granted.
• How your community and audience can now talk back.
• Your community, customers and partners can not only talk and connect with each other beyond you
• The concept of convincing rather than controlling the media and supporters

Clay will be one of our featured speakers for BizTechDay New York 2010. Come join us on September 24, 2010 at the Times Center.

About edith

Edith Yeung is the Founder of BizTechDay and SFentrepreneur. She is also a lecturer at UC Berkeley International Program and committee member of the San Francisco Small Business Week. She has previously worked with AT&T Wireless, Oracle, Siebel, Autodesk, Cisco Systems, Symantec, American Management Systems (AMS), Telstra Australia, Matav Hungary Telecom and Taiwan Semi-Conductor.

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