Figuring out what to write
I've started about five or six different posts this past week, but none of them have made it to "Publish." No matter how firmly I was convinced when I sat down to write that I would make it through to…
Tag creativity
Blogging insecurities
(In a future post I'll discuss this list and where it fits into my own experience of writing and blogging. For now, I give you a partial list of blogging insecurities as collected from many conversations over the years about what keeps us from…
Shutting down Richmond Brainstorm
Five years ago this month I launched the community improvement website RichmondBrainstorm.com. The site allowed users to submit ideas for ways to make Richmond, Indiana a better place, allowed other users to discuss and vote on those ideas, and shared…
Videos: TedXRichmond, marketing with integrity
Here's a recording of a panel I was on at the 2013 Earlham School of Religion Leadership Conference, where we talked about marketing with integrity: And here's a video of me speaking at 2012's TedXRichmond (Indiana) event, about being stuck,…
Starting the creative day
I work in a world with a lot of artificially constructed structures and images, and those structures and images have a lot of straight lines, right angles and cold, industrial, unfeeling surfaces. Computer monitors, e-mail composition windows, 8 1/2 x…