Michael Turro

Current

Director of Publishing Technologies at M. Shanken Communications
System Administrator at bluepear.org

Past

Digital Quality Analyst at Penton Media

Education

William Paterson University of New Jersey

Connections

83 connections

Industry

Publishing

Websites

Michael Turro’s Summary

As the core of my professional expertise lies in the technology of print media I have had to learn to understand and manipulate change. No other industry has had to deal with change over the last decade on the scale that print has - for many seeing a way forward has been a challenge. I thrive on challenge. New technology fascinates me. More precisely, the way technology transforms the social and the cultural fascinates me.

Riding this wave of change has allowed me to creatively engage an industry in flux - and as a result most of my thinking is currently centered on the transformation of the magazine into a useful 21st century information product.

As I write this my primary professional goal is to help magazine publishing evolve - to help keep it relevant. To this end, and for my own enjoyment, I maintain an active presence in the social media space. Aside from this account on Linked In, I maintain accounts on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, and dozens of other up and coming (or going) social sites. I cannot express the importance of this. The way we communicate is changing. The way we consume and redistribute information is changing - drastically. I intend to ride that change.

Michael Turro’s Specialties:

Managing change - understanding the nexus of culture, sociology, and technology - implementation of new processes - design thinking - ink on paper - pixels on screen - transforming publishing and creative operations - student of social media