Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Engineer; Everybody’s Invited
November 11th, 2008
43 minutes, stereo, CD and MP3. Debut album from The Offhand Band, released by Potluck Creative Arts.
Listen at theoffhandband.com.
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Launched theoffhandband.com
November 11th, 2008
Launched theoffhandband.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Founder, Webmaster; The Offhand Band
November 11th, 2008
- Founded this music act to create satisfying songs that are cool for kids, fun for families and great for the grown on their own.
- Webmaster for theoffhandband.com.
Licensed Simply Music Teacher
October 14th, 2008
Completed the training process to become a licensed as a teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Simply Music
Author; Lost, Found: An Ongoing Look at the Meaning of a Landmark Television Series
August 16th, 2008
Launched this blog at Potluck, covering the television series Lost episode by episode from a systems perspective.
Read at potluck.com.
Relaunched marksmeritt.com as an interactive resume and biography website
July 28th, 2008
- Relaunched marksmeritt.com with an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume and biography.
- Detailed the relaunch process in My Life in Tags: Creating an Interactive Resume and Biographical Website.
Founder, Webmaster; MarkSMeritt.com
November 21st, 2007
- Founded this web site to serve as a central hub for information about my pursuits and background, including an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume.
- Webmaster for marksmeritt.com.
Launched marksmeritt.com
November 21st, 2007
Launched marksmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com
November 16th, 2007
Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Launched potluckcreativearts.com
September 13th, 2007
- Launched potluckcreativearts.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
- Launched multiple podcasts, plus Resources section to help visitors learn about creativity and how to express themselves through their own lives.
Developed new music, arts and creativity services
July 1st, 2007
Developed innovative Songwriting Workshops, Singalong Workshops, Creativity Coaching service and custom songwriting/composition/writing services, most using Appreciative Inquiry to foster collaborative creativity.
Visit Potluck Creative Arts.
Editor, A Life Worth Living
May 27th, 2007
Non-fiction book by William F. Giruzzi that explores the possibility of creating a new way of life where good things happen naturally for people.
Founder, Editor; Potluck Creative Arts’ YouTube Channel
October 27th, 2006
Founded this YouTube channel to present original content via Potluck, Potluck Creative Arts and other sites.
Visit the Potluck Creative Arts’ YouTube Channel.
Relaunched potluck.com using WordPress
September 23rd, 2006
Relaunched potluck.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Relaunched arts.potluck.com
September 15th, 2006
Relaunched arts.potluck.com, adding services including composition, lyric-writing, musical arrangements and production, as well as writing and directing for motion pictures and theatre.
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Creative Arts
September 5th, 2006
Potluck Creative Arts, Red Hook, NY
- Promoting my activities as a musician, songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, music producer, pianist/keyboardist, music/arts/creativity educator/facilitator and writer/director for motion pictures and theatre.
- Services offered include Songwriting Workshops; Singalong Workshops; Custom Songs; Custom Instrumentals; Custom Writing; Creativity Coaching; Music Lessons; Piano/Keyboard Performance; Musical Arrangements and Production; Directing for Motion Pictures and Theatre.
- Webmaster for potluckcreativearts.com.
Obtained D/B/A for Potluck Creative Arts
September 5th, 2006
Obtained Certificate of Doing Business Under Assumed Name (”D/B/A”) from Dutchess County Clerk’s Office to do business under the name Potluck Creative Arts.
Visit Potluck Creative Arts.
Presenter; Gold In, Gold Out: Some Examples of How Doctors Without Borders Crafts Marketing Information Upstream So That What Flows Downstream Has the Potential to Enhance Segmentation and Analysis… and, Of Course, Income
April 10th, 2006
- Invited presentation in panel discussion on “Driving Team Approach - A Strategic Road Map.” Organizer: Ami Fish.
- Team Approach User Forum 2006, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, April 9-12, 2006.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Team Approach
Author; Forcing the Balance, Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself
November 24th, 2005
Autobiographical essay on talents, passions, and finding and staying on one’s path.
Read at potluck.com.
Music/Piano Teacher, Alfred methods
October 21st, 2005
Using Alfred piano methods including the Basic Piano Course, Prep Course for the Younger Beginner, and Music for Little Mozarts.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Alfred Piano Methods
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Arts
July 8th, 2005
- Created this business to promote my arts performances and educational efforts, including concerts, singalongs and music lessons.
- Webmaster for arts.potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.
Co-Presenter; Emergent Associates, LLC: Trailblazing Tribalizing
May 28th, 2005
- Invited presentation describing how Emergent Associates’ approach can foster a positive change revolution rooted in human-scale social structures. Co-presented by Dr. Howard Ditkoff.
- IshCon Spring 2005, Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, IN, May 27-30, 2005.
Emergent Associates incorporates
February 10th, 2005
Emergent Associates incorporates as a Michigan Limited Liability Company.
Learn more at potluck.com.
Emergent Associates, LLC
Co-Founder, Research and Development Advisor; Emergent Associates, LLC
November 22nd, 2004
Emergent Associates, LLC, Oak Park, MI
- Co-founded this coaching, consulting and training company which uses Appreciative Inquiry and positive psychology as a framework for integrating best practices and knowledge from organizational development, developmental/evolutionary psychology and systems-related disciplines to create practical tools which mutually foster empowerment and community for individuals and groups.
- Co-created proprietary rapid coaching techniques, integrating AI and developmental psychology and able to produce “eureka” results in as little as 10 minutes.
- Co-developer of a set of proprietary communication tools to foster positive change, informed by AI along with several established effective communication techniques, relationship models and personality typologies.
- Co-created a dynamic model of psychological development informed by complexity science, positive psychology, personality typologies and several universal models of human development.
Masters thesis abridged and translated into Portuguese
July 4th, 2004
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase is abridged and translated into Portuguese by Janos Biro.
Read at potluck.com.
Changing the Economic Paradigm Portuguese excerpt
Human expansion and the theory of r-K selection Portuguese excerpt
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