Good morning at TheWrap’s #PowerWomen2018 breakfast benefit for #GirlsWhoCode at Dolby Laboratories. Heard from #femalefounders of entertainment and technology ventures as well as the mayors of Oakland and Compton. #enttech #startups #wrapwomen
Second Screen featured in Europe's leading magazine for media & entertainment industry
In January I took a cofounder & COO role in Second Screen, a mobile startup in LA's Silicon Beach that aims to become the Netflix of bite-size series. Europe's magazine for the media & entertainment industry interviewed us for their May issue when they took a look at the adoption of second screen technology and other rapidly growing areas of mobile content.
Today they made the Second Screen app their cover star. Thanks to TVB editor Jenny Priestley for the interview of Second Screen's founder & CEO Estella Gabriel.
"Wouldn't the clever idea be to create an app where viewers can watch content but also comment about it?" asks TVB Europe's editor in her note prefacing the magazine.
Estella talks about social discovery: "Instead of an algorithm like Netflix has, we use a referral system. You can see what your friends are watching."
You can read the whole issue here.
Tracking the real-time reaction to Beyonce's Lemonade, TBT
I'm a big fan of the second screen experience of major cultural events.
"Never embark on last minute opportunistic adventures": ancient time management
Today the "Bad Feminist" author Roxane Gay on Twitter reminded me of this note on a website contact form I saw when requesting a blurb for the Expat Harem book: ancient self governance planning from Dr. Fatema Mernissi, shown in a screenshot of her site below.
TBT, to the book launch of The Season Of The Witch
This was a fun night with Fast Company journalist EB Liza Boyd at the Elks Club for Salon founder David Talbot.
His book "chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher it from backwater city to thriving metropolis."
TBT, reporting on UNESCO award-winning architectural restoration in Southeast Asia
SUBMIT YOUR FEATURE FILM: Second Screen is now seeking 50 founding filmmakers
Second Screen, where I am COO & Cofounder, is now accepting film submissions for consideration.
The first founding filmmaker is on board at Second Screen, and he's an award-winning ambassador for the 49 other feature makers this mobile streaming platform is now seeking, for equity! Do you know a filmmaker like Fernando Lebrija who is right for Second Screen?
FILM DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES: become a Second Screen content partner
See more by visiting the Second Screen site.
Writing foreword to Expat Harem's natural successor, Expat Sofra
Meet the contributors to Expat Sofra and look for the book this spring!
TBT, speaking at Microsoft HQ Turkey to the inaugural meeting of Turkish Women's International Network
Watch the talk here, and all the talks by members of the network that aspires to become the most impactful network focusing on women in Turkey and abroad. TRWIN collaborates with companies, NGOs and individuals to amplify our collective impact and empower women to realize their potential.
I've been pleased to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of Turkish WIN since its inception.
TBT, panelist at Exceptional Women In Publishing Conference
Check out Exceptional Women In Publishing, a non-profit org to educate, empower and support women in publishing and to educate, empower and support women and girls through the power of publishing.
TBT, behind the scenes at Wisdom 2.0
Loved this mixed media participatory identity tapestry by Mary Corey March at Google Lounge, Wisdom 2.0 conference, Concourse Exhibition Center.
TBT, speaking at The Commonwealth Club & signing my book
This talk "The Rise of Turkey" was moved to a larger room (about 100 in the audience and live-streaming the podcast to Commonwealth Club members everywhere) and we ran out of books to sign right away.
I was joined on the panel by:
Steven West, Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar to Turkey; Professor of Turkish Studies and Cross Cultural Communication
Bonnie Joy Kaslan, Honorary Consul General, Turkish Republic, S.F. Bay Area
Joel Brinkley, Professor of Journalism, Stanford University; Foreign Affairs Columnist; Former Pulitzer Prize Winning Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times — Moderator
Amidst the turmoil of the Arab Spring, Turkey has arisen as a powerful force in the Middle East. The distinguished panel will discuss the nation's culture and its sometimes bitter past, the growing influence of religion in Turkey, and her frayed alliances. In addition, the panelists will discuss how Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's dynamic prime minister, is becoming one of the most powerful voices in the troubled region.
You can listen to the podcast here.
TBT, a podcast panel of global citizens
TBT, the Istanbul Indie Film Festival #10
Another life, another networked world!
This came in the mail today. It's from the major faculty of my liberal arts college, an event for my professor of Bronze Age Archaeology, Jim Wright. He was a great teacher, as I recall!
Also, it's a reminder of the solidity of liberal arts education. This classically-based education was meant to turn out a person who was "virtuous and ethical, knowledgeable in many fields and highly articulate." It doesn't matter what you do with it, you're equipped as a well-rounded individual.
Today's email and its particular Bronze Age lens on power and place is so far from where I am right this minute, and yet I am back in class in an instant, to when civilizations around the Aegean first established a far-ranging trade network and all together moved out of the Stone Age.
Then I'm back again, to today, back to looking at the future of stories for millennial audiences as a business, tech, and entertainment issue. That's a focus of mine right now and based here in California's own power centers of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Hope all my Bryn Mawr archaeology peers have a fun symposium!