Author, Generation Blend & Director of Strategy/Content, MediaPlant
Greater Seattle Area
Author, Generation Blend & Director of Strategy/Content, MediaPlant
Greater Seattle Area
I am a writer and consultant specializing in the social implications of new technology. My first book, Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap (Wiley & Sons, 2008) focuses on the cultural issues of using social and collaborative software in a multi-generational workplace. I am currently working on a white paper on Blue Collar 2.0 (the impact of Web 2.0 technology on non-knowledge work industries) for New Paradigm/nGenera, and my recent work with Microsoft is being collected in Listening to the Future: Insights from the New World of Work, (co-authored with Daniel W. Rasmus), forthcoming from Wiley this summer. I am also serving as a communications consultant to the congressional campaign of Darcy Burner, Democrat for Congress in Washington's 8th district.
Previously, I worked as an independent communications consultant and writer since 1992, specializing in strategic marketing and messaging for the high tech industry. Clients include Microsoft, HP (previously Compaq), Intel, Intuit, Amazon, Watchguard Technologies and many others. I am a founding partner of MediaPlant, LLC, and helped to launch seven other online content and communications companies through the 1990s.
I am a founding member of the Board of Director of Older Adults Technology Services, a New York-based non-profit focused on technology training and workforce development for older adults.
Economic, political and social implications of new technology in the workplace
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GBN sessions, Technology for Business Sake