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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between
April 6th, 2003
Presenter, The Game of Community
February 4th, 2003
- 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.
Winner, Annual Thesis Prize
February 26th, 2002
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase is awarded the first Annual Thesis Prize for best thesis by the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
Read at potluck.com.
City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences
February 11th, 2002
- 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.
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; permaCulture: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences
September 15th, 2001
Author, The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase
January 25th, 2001
- Masters thesis for M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
- Faculty advisor: William Kornblum.
Read at potluck.com.
City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies
Presenter, World Bank 2000 and the Unsustainability of Economic Growth
November 19th, 2000
- 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.
Presenter, Doctors Without Borders USA internet fundraising
June 25th, 1999
- Invited presentation describing Doctors Without Borders USA’s efforts at fundraising via the internet.
- 1999 MSF International Fundraisers Conference, Médecins Sans Frontières Paris offices, Paris, France, June 24-25, 1999.
The Lion’s Share selected for American Zoetrope staff review
April 1st, 1999
The Lion’s Share is selected for American Zoetrope staff review after its February 10, 1999, submission at screenplay.lather.com.
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American Zoetrope
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