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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

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 ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

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

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. 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

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's organization

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References

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