Heretic | Influence

Greater Than Yourself

Morgan Ramsay — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:19:05 +0000

Extreme Leadership president Steve Farber recognizes contributors to the wisdom of becoming “greater than yourself” in his forthcoming book.

Biography

Steve Farber is president at Extreme Leadership, Inc., an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. His best-selling book The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson In Extreme Leadership is a recipient of Fast Company’s Readers’ Choice Award and was named one of ten best business books of 2004 by The CEO Refresher.

Farber’s second book The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change The World was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” He is a contributor to the anthology Leading Authorities On Business: Winning Strategies From The Greatest Minds In Business Today and the author of the audio series Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit Of The OS!M.

Websites

Company: Extreme Leadership, Inc.
Blog: Extreme Leadership, Inc.

Customer Maniacs

Morgan Ramsay — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:00:43 +0000

John Wiley & Sons executive editor Chris Webb discusses the value of distribution and content referring to our evangelism of user relationships.

Biography

Chris Webb is an executive editor in the Professional/Trade division at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. where he develops new titles and series for technology imprints. He primarily programs titles for the Wrox imprint as well as books in the PC Magazine and ExtremeTech series.

Webb started his career in 1994 as a programmer and consultant for universities, hospitals, banks, and other financial institutions. In 1998, he entered technology publishing at Macmillan USA (now Pearson) and then IDG Books, Hungry Minds, and John Wiley & Sons.

Websites

Company: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Blog: Chris Webb On Publishing, Media, and Technology

Citizen Journalism

Morgan Ramsay — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:00:25 +0000

MIT Convergence Culture Consortium project manager Sam Ford discusses the ethics of citizen journalism and the blogosphere referring to a debate between Morgan Ramsay and Microsoft’s David Edery about a communications incident involving Sony Computer Entertainment America and Kotaku.

Biography

Sam Ford is project manager at MIT Convergence Culture Consortium (C3) where he writes on television culture, fan communities, narrative archives, and the media industries. In addition to working on research projects, he serves as editor-in-chief of the internal newsletter Weekly Update and the C3 Weblog.

As a professional journalist, Ford currently writes the weekly column “From Beaver Dam to Boston” for The Ohio County Times-News. He won the Kentucky Press Association award for best feature story in a weekly newspaper for his work with The Greenville Leader-News.

Websites

Company: MIT Convergence Culture Consortium
Blog: MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Weblog

Improving Game Marketing

Morgan Ramsay — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:21:21 +0000

Areae president Raph Koster discusses a recent study on improving the marketing of video games in the context of our interpretations.

Biography

Raph Koster got started in virtual worlds back in the days of the text MUDs in the early 90s, working on LegendMUD. He was creative lead on the original Ultima Online and lead designer for UO Live and Ultima Online: The Second Age while working for ORIGIN and Electronic Arts.

Koster then went on to be creative director on Star Wars Galaxies for Sony Online Entertainment, where he also served as chief creative officer for three years until 2006. He�??s the author of the acclaimed book A Theory of Fun, and somehow finds the time to write constantly on his popular blog.

Websites

Company: Areae, Inc.
Blog: Raph Koster’s Website