• Success through professional self-destruction and why I drop the mic: my TED talk preview

    It was there that I announced that this would be my final “Storyteller Uprising” keynote. There’s some of that “professional self-destruction” I referenced in my TEDx talk synopsis. “Drop the mic” is another way of saying “leave them wanting more” before you overstay your welcome. After five years of successfully presenting the Storyteller Uprising concept…

  • Wearables, hearables and facing my physical reality through technology

    [TLDR version: “I’m getting old and I’m dealing with it!”] As the archetypal “early adopter” I haven’t shied away from getting increasingly intimate with technology, especially as it gets more personalized. I’ve often sported a bluetooth earpiece when I’m driving or biking in an attempt to simulate the “wearable” experience — listening to audiobooks, having text…

  • How the New York Times’ dead tree A1 reflects my connected world right now

    It’s also a reflection of the evolution and growth of my own graduate program in digital media to a more expansive one in content, creativity and leadership…We are shifting our relational expectations as we grant the world a 24/7 invitation to our lives through this new bodily organ that is our mobile technology. We expect…

  • My Tableau Conference slides: No, Really, This is the “Communication Age.”

    As presented to the Tableau Conference on September 11, 2014, Seattle. See this recent post for more context on my “vision.” Mobile first. Cloud first. The Digital Age. Disruption. Clichés abound as we all try to make sense of how technology has put us into a 24/7 state of communication. And therein lies the essence…