Martijn Aslander

I’m a 41 year old explorer of the network & information age I’m interested in setting things in motion, to develop myself and others. Most of my time I spend learning and thinking. The rest of the time I engage with people and connect people. After reading The Tipping Point, the book of Malcolm Gladwell on social epidemics, I figured out that I am a maven, a connector as well as a salesman. If you want to spread ideas an knowledge like I do, you need people with these roles. Since 8 years now, after I figured out that asking money before an assignment is maybe not the best way to operate, I ask people to evaluate me and the value of my efforts afterwards. A path that would be much richer dan the path of being a consultant that can be hired. Richer in the sense of value to me and others, value in a much broader meaning than just money. We live in the age of acces now, and access will be more important than possesion in the next decades, I think. I love to give lectures and do that over 150 times a year, speaking about the new economy, valuecreation, marketing 2.0, complementairy economics, networking, lifehacking, and about my ideas to make te world a better place, with my insights in social and information capital. Specialties: Creative thinking, recognizing underlying patterns, organising, guerilla marketing, network-thinking, bootstrapping, publicity, personal branding, web2.0, transformational thinking, paradigm-shifting