I’m a 37 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

My LinkedIn profile

Me on Twitter ( mainly Dutch :) )

An article in Happinez Magazine

Martijn Beginners guide

A video of a presentation for an audience of 300 industry leaders in Brussels on social capital and the network- and information age

Here a video and more info about my recent wooden iPad business :)

Contact me at martijn[at]elvenstone.com