Thomas Vander Wal is a consultant, adviser, and strategist for to those who build, manage, or considering social software and general systems for organization intranet, web properties, and applications. He has been building, designing, and managing social, business, and consumer sites and applications since 1996. He is currently an advisor at Adjuvi, as well as consultant at Rhizome Innovation. He was previously at Gigaom, Design for Context, and was Principal at InfoCloud Solutions.