Entries for 'Writing'

Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Engineer; Everybody’s Invited

43 minutes, stereo, CD and MP3. Debut album from The Offhand Band, released by Potluck Creative Arts.
Listen at theoffhandband.com.

Launched theoffhandband.com

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

Founder, Webmaster; The Offhand Band

  • 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.

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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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Developed new music, arts and creativity services

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

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

Founder, Principal, Webmaster; 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

  • 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

Autobiographical essay on talents, passions, and finding and staying on one’s path.
Read at potluck.com.

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.

Learn more at potluck.com.
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.

Learn more at potluck.com.
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

Multiple honors, 11th Annual Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest

  • 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.

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.

Read at potluck.com.

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.

Read at potluck.com.

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

Presenter, Doctors Without Borders USA internet fundraising

  • 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.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

The Lion’s Share selected for American Zoetrope staff review

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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