Portfolio | Mark S. Meritt

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.

Tags: Adaptation, AI, Appreciative Inquiry, Arts, Business, Children, Communication, Composing, Creator, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Everyone's Invited, Humor, Livelihood, Lyricist, Music, Music Arranger/Producer, Music Performance, Musical Directing, Notable, Pianist/Keyboardist, Portfolio, Potluck Creative Arts, Publishing, Resume, Songwriting, Sound Design, The Offhand Band, Writing
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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.

Tags: Arts, Business, Children, Communication, Current, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Humor, Internet, Livelihood, Marketing, Notable, Portfolio, Publishing, Resume, The Offhand Band, Website Design, WordPress, Writing
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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.

Tags: Anthropology/Sociology, Arts, Current, Essayist/Columnist, Film/Cinema/Video/Motion Pictures, Lost Found: An Ongoing Look at the Meaning of a Landmark Television Series, Portfolio, Potluck, Systems, Television, Writing
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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.

Tags: Data Management and Analysis, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Internet, Marketing, MarkSMeritt.com, Portfolio, Resume, Systems, Website Design, WordPress
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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.

Visit MarkSMeritt.com.

Tags: Current, Data Management and Analysis, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Internet, Marketing, MarkSMeritt.com, Portfolio, Resume, Systems, Website Design, WordPress
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Launched marksmeritt.com

November 21st, 2007

Launched marksmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.

Tags: Data Management and Analysis, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Internet, Marketing, MarkSMeritt.com, Portfolio, Resume, Systems, Website Design, WordPress
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Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com

November 16th, 2007

Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.

Tags: Children, Internet, Portfolio, Sophie's World, Website Design, WordPress
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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.

Tags: Arts, Business, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Internet, Livelihood, Portfolio, Potluck Creative Arts, Resume, Website Design, WordPress
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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.

Tags: AI, Appreciative Inquiry, Arts, Business, Children, Composing, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Livelihood, Lyricist, Music, Music Arranger/Producer, Pianist/Keyboardist, Portfolio, Potluck Creative Arts, Resume, Singalongs, Songwriting, Teaching/Facilitating, Writing
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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.

Tags: Arts, Cinematography/Videography, Current, Film/Cinema/Video/Motion Pictures, Internet, Portfolio, Potluck, Potluck Creative Arts, Potluck Creative Arts' YouTube Channel, Website Design, YouTube
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Relaunched potluck.com using WordPress

September 23rd, 2006

Relaunched potluck.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.

Tags: Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Internet, Livelihood, Portfolio, Potluck, Publishing, Resume, Website Design, WordPress
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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.

Tags: Arts, Business, Children, Composing, Directing, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Film/Cinema/Video/Motion Pictures, Internet, Livelihood, Lyricist, Music, Music Arranger/Producer, Music Performance, Music Teacher, Musical Theatre, Pianist/Keyboardist, Portfolio, Potluck Creative Arts, Resume, Singalongs, Songwriting, Teaching/Facilitating, Theatre, Website Design, Writing
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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.

Visit Potluck Creative Arts.

Tags: AI, Appreciative Inquiry, Arts, Business, Children, Composing, Current, Directing, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Film/Cinema/Video/Motion Pictures, Internet, Livelihood, Lyricist, Music, Music Arranger/Producer, Music Performance, Music Teacher, Musical Theatre, Notable, Pianist/Keyboardist, Portfolio, Potluck Creative Arts, Potluck Creative Arts' YouTube Channel, Resume, Singalongs, Songwriting, Teaching/Facilitating, Theatre, Website Design, Writing
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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.

Tags: Business, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Livelihood, Portfolio, Potluck Creative Arts, Resume
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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.

Tags: Children, Daniel Quinn, Essayist/Columnist, Forcing the Balance Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself, Notable, Portfolio, Psychology, Systems, Writing
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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

Tags: Alfred Piano Methods, Arts, Children, Current, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Livelihood, Music, Music Teacher, Portfolio, Resume, Teaching/Facilitating
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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.

Tags: Arts, Business, Children, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Livelihood, Music, Music Performance, Music Teacher, Pianist/Keyboardist, Portfolio, Potluck Arts, Potluck Creative Arts, Resume, Singalongs, Teaching/Facilitating, Website Design
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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

Tags: Anthropology/Sociology, City University of New York, CUNY, Daniel Quinn, Ecology, Economics, Education, GC, Graduate Center, Graduate Studies, Interdisciplinarity, M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, MALS, Portfolio, Research Papers, Science, Sustainability, Systems, The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase, Translations, Writing
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Incorporated Sophie’s World into potluck.com

May 27th, 2004

Visit Sophie’s World.

Tags: Children, Internet, Portfolio, Sophie's World, Website Design
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Founder, Principal Contributor, Webmaster; Potluck

May 27th, 2004

Founded this web site to present original works, including many that explore familiar topics from a systems perspective.
Webmaster for potluck.com.

Visit Potluck.

Tags: Arts, Copy Editing, Current, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Essayist/Columnist, Interdisciplinarity, Internet, Livelihood, Notable, Portfolio, Potluck, Publishing, Resume, Science, Systems, Website Design, Writing
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Launched potluck.com

May 16th, 2004

Launched Potluck at potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.

Tags: Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Internet, Livelihood, Portfolio, Potluck, Publishing, Resume, Website Design
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Author, Viewpoint on Food and Population, for Mother Earth News

March 3rd, 2004

Contracted by Mother Earth News to write this piece exploring the relationship between food supply and population size. Unpublished.
Read at potluck.com.
Mother Earth News

Tags: Daniel Quinn, Ecology, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Essayist/Columnist, Livelihood, Mother Earth News, Portfolio, Science, Sustainability, Systems, Viewpoint on Food and Population, Writing
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Multiple honors, 11th Annual Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest

July 16th, 2003

The Fall of the Roxy Usher, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
Someone Duplicated the Key to My Heart, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
Falling into the Sun; Music by Mark S. Meritt, Lyrics by Richard Hack and Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate.

Listen and read at potluck.com.

Tags: Arts, Awards, Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest, Composing, Honors, Lyricist, Music, Notable, Portfolio, Resume, Songwriting, Writing
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Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between

April 6th, 2003

Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics from a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Potluck.
Webmaster for www.mosaic.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.

Read at potluck.com.

Tags: Arts, Copy Editing, Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment, Essayist/Columnist, Interdisciplinarity, Internet, Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts Sciences & Everything in Between, Notable, Portfolio, Potluck, Publishing, Resume, Science, Systems, Website Design, Writing
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Launched Sophie’s World at home.hvc.rr.com/buttonhouse

February 14th, 2003

Launched Sophie’s World at home.hvc.rr.com/buttonhouse, using custom HTML programming.
Visit Sophie’s World.