Entries for 'Systems'

Author; Lost, Found: An Ongoing Look at the Meaning of a Landmark Television Series

Launched this blog at Potluck, covering the television series Lost episode by episode from a systems perspective.
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Relaunched marksmeritt.com as an interactive resume and biography website

Founder, Webmaster; MarkSMeritt.com

  • 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.

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Launched marksmeritt.com

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

Author; Forcing the Balance, Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself

Autobiographical essay on talents, passions, and finding and staying on one’s path.
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Co-Presenter; Emergent Associates, LLC: Trailblazing Tribalizing

  • 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.

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Emergent Associates, LLC
IshCon

Co-Founder, Research and Development Advisor; Emergent Associates, LLC

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.

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Emergent Associates, LLC

Masters thesis abridged and translated into Portuguese

Founder, Principal Contributor, Webmaster; Potluck

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

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Author, Viewpoint on Food and Population, for Mother Earth News

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 Unpublished.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

Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between

  • 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.

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Presenter, The Game of Community

  • Invited presentation describing how game theory and cooperation theory can help us build community.
  • Rotary Club of Red Hook breakfast, The Red Hook Inn, Red Hook, NY.

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Rotary Club of Red Hook

Winner, Annual Thesis Prize

Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences

  • Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics friom a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between.
  • Webmaster for www.sostenuto.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.

Read at potluck.com.

Founder, Editor, Webmaster; permaCulture: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences

  • Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics from a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences.
  • Webmaster for home.hvc.rr.com/worldtrade, using custom HTML programming.

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Author, The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase

Presenter, World Bank 2000 and the Unsustainability of Economic Growth

  • Invited paper in panel discussion on “The World Bank Millennium Report: A Recipe for More Inequality.” Organizer: Michael L. Blim. Chair: Jarrett Zigon.
  • 99th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco Hilton & Towers, San Francisco, CA, November 15-19, 2000.

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American Anthropological Association

Business Consultant

Business consulting specializing in Microsoft Excel, creation of databases and other information management tools, project management, data analysis, forecasting, quality control, research, and both technical and academic writing.
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Co-Author, Hugh Manatee

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Co-Screenwriter, Ishmael

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