November 2, 2011 Storyworld Conference, San Francisco. “Character-centric Storytelling” Panel with Miles Maker, moderated by Alison Norrington. Video interview here.

March 11, 2011 South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas. Solo seminar on writing for social media. “Saying It Short--Writing Workshop with @Betty Draper” Slideshare presentation available here

November, 2010 Digital Hollywood Content Summit. “Return of the Sponsor” Panel moderated by Lori H. Schwartz, McCann

September 28, 2010  Guest lecture at Duke University, Durham NC “The First 20,000 Years of Advertising” Slideshare presentation available here

March 22, 2010  Guest appearance on The Beancast advertising podcast, with Edward Boches, CCO Mullen, Rob Schwartz, CCO TBWA\Chiat\Day, Steve Garfield and John Wall. Download here.

March 13, 2010 Austin, Texas “Rules of Brand Fiction from Twittering Mad Men” South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi)

December 11, 2009 Interviewed by Bill Green (Make the Logo Bigger) and Angela Natividad (formerly of AdRants) for Adverve podcast on “Ageism in Advertising.” Download here.

October 20, 2009 Santa Monica, CA Digital Hollywood WGA Summit Panel on Transmedia Storytelling: Writing and producing for the Multi-Platform Universe. Fellow panelists included Flinte Dille (creator Dungeons & Dragons), Adam Armus (EP, Heroes) and Matt Corman & Chris Ord (writers, Covert Affairs) Slideshare Presentation available here

September 22, 2009 San Francisco, CA Adweek’s Social Media Strategies Conference “How To Leverage the Twitter Platform for Brands” Slideshare Presentation available here

June 16, 2009 New York, NY Jeff Pulver’s First 140 Characters Conference “Twitter and Mad Men” Panel. Video available here

June 15, 2009 New York, NY O’Reilly’s Twitter Boot Camp “Listening for Opportunities on Twitter” (Introduction to the Twitterverse, for Brands) Slideshare Presentation available here.

April 28, 2009 Los Angeles, CA DigitalLA “Twitter for Entertainment” SRO panel included representatives from Warner Bros. Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate and NBC

March 17, 2009 Austin, Texas South By Southwest Interactive. “Behind the Scenes with Mad Men on Twitter” Panel. Introduced the concept of Brand Fiction. Cnet News gave us high praise.

March 12, 2009 New York, NY City College, Media and Communications Arts Program, Guest Lecturer “Getting a Job in Advertising” Slideshare Presentation available here