COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

Here’s the video of my recent speech at TEDxMarin.  The theme of the event was “Communication Revolution”.  The organizers invited me to speak about the future of television, social media and personal storytelling. Robert Tercek at TEDxMarin May 2011: “Reclaiming The Power of Personal Narrative” from Robert Tercek on Vimeo. TED talks are all about [...]

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In November 2010, I was invited to participate as a speaker and moderator at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City.   More than 2500 attendees, including hundreds of international delegates, attended the event.   We participated in workshops, discussions, exhibitions, demonstrations. I was the moderator of a discussion on the topic of Technology Aiding [...]

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The advent of table computers and electronic book readers poses a serious challenge to the traditional business of book publishing.  As I’ve written previously, it’s entirely possible that the economics of print publishing will crumble faster than commonly expected. Recently I was invited to appear on “This Week In Books” to discuss the implications of [...]

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While visiting Vancouver for the Merging+Media conference, I was invited to appear on “Urban Rush” a lively daytime talk show about media and entertainment.   The topic:  how traditional media companies must chase their audiences as they migrate to new platforms.   The proliferation of new devices and platforms makes this especially difficult for broadcasters [...]

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Last week I attended the Digital Directions conference hosted by Fairfax Media and X | Media Lab in Sydney.  A series of outstanding speakers, including Tim Wu, Gigi Wang, Kevin Anderson, Baratunde Thurston, Riyaad Minty, Anthony Rose and others shared their perspectives. My topic was “Coercion and Cooperation in the Second Century of Electronic Media.” [...]

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This week I was a guest on “This Week In Careers.”   Host Lisa Mandell interviewed me about career opportunities of the future.  I spoke about several industries that will grow this decade and the steps to take now to prepare for the jobs of the future. In a wide-ranging interview, we covered several topics, [...]

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Today I will make an address at the Digital Directions conference, presented by Fairfax Digital in Sydney, Australia. My comments will focus on the collision between two distinctly different environments for innovation in the digital domain: closed and open systems. Or, as I prefer to think of them, the architecture of coercion and the architecture [...]

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Ten years ago, music consumers went on strike.   They decided en masse that they no longer wished to consume music bundled in the form of albums.   The result:  sales of recorded music today are 64% lower than their peak in 2000. The leaders of the television industry should take a long careful look [...]

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I spent today with Kathy Eldon, the founder and President of the Creative Visions Foundation, at her spectacular beachside home in Malibu. Since 1998, Kathy and her small team have accomplished something pretty impressive:  they’ve fostered more than 75 activists who are committed to making change in a variety of places around the world.   [...]

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Check out this useful comment by Mike Hale in today’s NYT heralding the arrival of original video series on the Web.  For too long, broadcasters have regarded the Web as a dumping ground for uninspired promotional content and lame marketing gimmicks for the regular broadcast schedule.  Recently, however, some TV networks are starting to take [...]

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