Jerry Michalski is an American technology consultant. He is the former managing editor of ''Release 1.0'', a technology newsletter. He is the founder of Sociate.com and ReX (Relationship Economy eXpedition).

Education

Jerry Michalski graduated from the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

with a bachelor of arts degree in economics. He received a master in business administration from the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

Career

Michalski served as the managing editor of ''Release 1.0'', the newsletter published, and originally written and edited solely by

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. Michalski is the founder of Sociate.com. He is also the founder of ReX (Relationship Economy eXpedition). He has given lectures about the "economy of relationships" in front of think tanks like the

Institute for the Future The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a Palo Alto, California, US–based not-for-profit think tank. It was established, in 1968, as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation to help organizations plan for the long-term future, a subject known as ...

, where he argued that the thriving economies of the future will rest upon relationships. Michalski is considered to be one of the

Digerati The digerati (or digirati) are the elite of digitalization, social media, content marketing, computer industry and online communities. The word is a portmanteau, derived from "digital" and " literati", and reminiscent of the earlier coinage ''gli ...

. Michalski is one of the earliest users of the TheBrain mind mapping and personal knowledge base software, having amassed more than half a million nodes in 26 years of use.

Boards

Michalski is a board member of Zev Shapiro's organization TurnUp

References

Living people University of California, Irvine alumni Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni American editors Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-editor-stub