What's Your Story?

In today's world of information overload most people maintain a binary view of things. There's the left; and there's the right.

While I admittedly cant more to the port side than starboard, generally I find both sides full of cow pucky.

Welcome to something Other Than That - a nourishing environment that fosters intelligent discourse with fascinating people.

It's kind of like a social petri dish … just a lot less gooey and damp.

 

Tuned in to Music and Tech: An Interview with Brian Zisk of SF Music Tech Summit

August 15, 2010 in Personalities & Profiles | Comments (0)

Brian Zisk

In addition to writing (not at often as I’d like) for my own blog, each week I contribute a short post for the new LGBTA community site dot429. The producers of the site asked a small number of their founding members to do these weekly...

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Getting Down to “Brass Tacks” on the Editorial FAIL by Fast Company

July 6, 2010 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (7)

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Editorial integrity.

In my mind those two words are inextricably linked and have been since long before my days at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. So when I saw the first Tweets pass by about something called The Influence Project by Fast...

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Master (Mistress?) Storyteller: Ani DiFranco Weaves Tales and Tunes

July 1, 2010 in News & Events, Personalities & Profiles | Comments (0)

You know that parlor game people play asking: “If you could have dinner with ANYONE who would it be?”

If the parameters were set limiting the number solely to people who are currently alive, there’s no question that Ani DiFranco would sit high on my list.

So...

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An IdeasProject Question: Drawing the Line Between Public and Private

May 24, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (2)

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It’s an ongoing debate. Privacy on-line. Just how much is too much and where do you draw the line? The ebb and flow of this topic surged in recent weeks in large part due to the renewed kerfuffle over Facebook’s apparent disregard for their...

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Making Way Through the Digital Forest (and Seeing it for the Trees)

May 10, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (0)

This is a post originally penned for Intel’s Inside Scoop blog.

Time.

It’s one of those things of which we never seem to have enough and yet at the same time the world in which we live has accelerated so that we’re expected to do more, faster,...

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Whirling Dervish: A Rapid Recap and Looking Forward

April 29, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (2)

I’m pretty lucky. I love to travel. My favorite part, though, always is coming home to San Francisco and tucking into my favorite chair (view from which is above) to write up thoughts and experiences from my time away … or catch up on my...

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A New Beginning: This Time, It’s Personal

April 18, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (3)

For the last 20 years, I’ve spent most of my time telling other people’s stories for them. In one way or another – through Journalism, public relations, back to Journalism and into business development and conference content curation – I’ve focused on being a conduit...

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Social Media Hour #52: The launch of dot429 and the humanization of wine

April 16, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (0)

This week on Social Media Hour it’s an introduction to dot429, a new online community for LGBT professionals. Three of dot429’s executive team – Sabrina Riddle, Bill Stewart and Cha Mueller join Cathy to talk about the new site, its inception and why its particular aesthetic...

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A Great Deal: Do a favor, get one in return

April 11, 2010 in Other Than That - news, business & other nonsense | Comments (0)

exerciseelephants.jpg I have this friend who needs a favor … Don’t you love when people start things like that? Well in this case it’s true, and your doing the favor could score you something pretty cool. By day, Alison is a therapist and mindfulness coach, but...

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Social Media Hour #50: Empowerment and Addiction – A Social Media Love Story

March 28, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (2)

smaddiction.jpg Hi. My name is Cathy, and I’m addicted to social media.

I mean, I’m empowered by it.

Oh wait, it’s both.

Truth is that the sword of these technology platforms and applications very much cuts both ways and the very things that are changing our world for the...

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