Riffing on Writing

In this episode, occasional partner in crime and good friend Geoff Livingston joins me to discuss transmedia storytelling & its usefulness to marketers and brands. It gets geeky, we poke fun at one another (as we're often wont to do) and there's a few well-placed expletives. Be warned.

In this episode, VP of Partner Strategy at Jugnoo and prominent marketing blogger Danny Brown joins me to discuss analytics and measurement, success indicators, unconventional reasons for building email lists and responsive design for bloggers.

As the host and cofounder of BlogcastFM, Srinivas Rao is constantly conducting in-depth interviews with content creators, entrepreneurs and published authors. In this week's episode, he step out from behind the microphone and talks with me about his own journey in entrepreneurship and how his love of surfing has translated into a means to harness creative energies and do meaningful work.

We get higher-level strategic in this episode, talking content marketing and communications with Ann Handley, chief content officer of Marketingprofs. A former journalist, Ann brought a keen eye to the ideas of storytelling and narrative in business communications. She also teased me. A lot.

In this episode, business strategist and consultant Sarah Robinson talks about her upcoming book "Fierce Loyalty: Unlocking the DNA of Wildly Successful Communities" and how she identified the organizing principles behind some of the most successful brand-centered communities. If you create content for yourself or on behalf of a brand, this is the episode (and book) for you.

In this episode, Michael Schechter, blogger at BetterMess.com and cohost of the Mikes on Mics podcast, joined me to discuss productivity hacks and taking action on those ideas that pop into our heads, while extolling the virtues of plain-text files and Markdown. This might be the geekiest episode yet - and it was awesome.

C.C.'s experience in marketing consultation and content creation is substantial, and he offered his perspectives on social scoring, blogger outreach and partnering with brands from both sides of the pitch coin. If you're a blogger looking for honest perspectives on doing those press trips that everyone lusts over, be sure to listen to this episode.

In this episode, stay-at-home mom and food/travel blogger Amber DeGrace talks about her experiences writing for the Huffington Post, preserving a sense of self, and the challenges of writing and creating when the kids come calling.

In this episode, Erin Feldman of Write Right joins me to discuss poetry, entrepreneurship, failure to launch, and the pains of the pivot. Beyond the written word, you'll find Erin's cartoon work featured on numerous blogs.

In this episode, Shakirah Dawud of Deliberate Ink shares her perspectives on setting rates, negotiating contracts, and the occasionally exploitative world of online publication as we discuss the changing industry and why calling yourself a "freelancer" might not be a good idea.

In this episode of Riffing on Writing, a weekly discussion podcast on creativity, productivity, and the challenges and pitfalls of doing creative work, host Jason Konopinski talks with Jack Steiner, a self-described "man about town". Jacks shares his insights into blogging, writing, and the occasionally exploitative ecosystem of freelance content creation and production

In the first episode of Riffing on Writing, a weekly discussion podcast on creativity, productivity, and the challenges and pitfalls of doing creative work, host Jason Konopinski talks with Erin Faulk, an independent filmmaker traveling across the country putting together a documentary about Twitter.