Tummelvision
Tummelvision is a weekly live podcast that explores the human side of technology - people before data. A Tummler is a Yiddish word used to describe a person who catalyzes others to action. Tummlers were traditionally hired at Jewish weddings and in the Borscht belt to warm up the crowd and get the party started.
Each week Heather, Deb and Kevin engage with well-known guests from the arts, business, and technology who all share a unique focus on the importance of bringing our more human selves with us both online and offline. Guests are all experts in the art and science of engaging and collaborating a networked world. Topics range from "does google get social" to what is the role of empathy and emotion in business and how do we genuinely connect in a connected world.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 76 minutes
- Episodes
- 98
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2012
TummelVision 58: Silona Bonewald on Gaga, Google, open source, and socializing geeks
Silona Bonewald of Austin, Texas weighs-in on Lady Gaga vs. Facebook, open source environments, and avoiding poisonous people (not to mention a few other topics).
Searching for words to describe Silo…
TummelVision 57: Micah L. Sifry on SxSW, WikiLeaks, national security, and the global transparency movement
Still a little hoarse from SxSW, Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz report on their experiences and are joined by guest Micah L. Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, which cover…
Tummelvision 56: Howard Rheingold on crap detection, collaborative learning, and online community
From SxSW in Austin, Heather Gold and Kevin Marks talk with Howard Rheingold, who has been studying and writing inspiringly about virtual communities since the 1990s, and has been online continually …
TummelVision 55: Juliette Powell on how to tummel, collaborating across disciplines, leaderless revolution, and Dutch schoolchildren
The guest this week is Juliette Powell, media strategist, author of 33 Million People in the Room and co-founder of The Gathering Think Tank. Juliette is a natural-born Tummler who catalyzes ideas …
TummelVision 54: Jeff Jarvis on his public parts, revolutionary technologies, and media disruption
In this episode of TummelVision, the gang talks about “public parts,” revolutionary technologies, and media disruption with Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and the forthcoming Public Pa…
TummelVision 53: Molly Steenson on pneumatic tubes, the links between architecture and social software, and creating meaning without shipping code
This week’s guest is Molly Steenson, a digital strategist, design researcher, architectural historian and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University.
Molly joins Deb Schultz and Kevin Marks to discuss …
TummelVision 52: Paul Ford asks why wasn’t I consulted?
Writer Paul Ford (a.k.a., Ftrain.com) joins Kevin and Deb to talk about the Egyptian revolution, whether Arianna Huffington is a tummler, and the ultimate question of the entire Internet: Why Wasn’t …
TummelVision 51: Brady Forrest on the Egyptian revolution, humanizing data, and the birth of Ignite
Brady Forrest joins Deb and Kevin to talk about the tummlers of the Egyptian revolution, humanizing oceans of data, and the birth of the now-global phenomenon of Ignite.
TummelVision 50: Umair Haque on tummeling our way to a new kind of capitalism
This week on Tummelvision Umair Haque talks with us about his book The New Capitalist Manifesto, the imbalanced state of the union, Silicon Valley’s disruption deficit disorder, and much, much more.
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TummelVision 49: Lisa Bielawa on the social side of art and creativity
In addition to the usual smart, witty banter, this episode of TummelVision is graced by a sample from the work of composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa. Lisa is creating work that brings together many m…
TummelVision 48: Brian Zisk on the human side of gadgetry, music, and lessons from antique online social networks
Brian Zisk is a strategist specializing in music, technology, and founder advising. He is a pioneering social organizer in the San Francisco Bay area. In this episode of TummelVision, Brian talks w…
TummelVision 47: Tom Coates on Yahoo!, social software, and being a proto-tummler
Tom Coates has been blogging and working on social software since well before either of them got that name. He cares very much about making the web a suitable place for people to live in, and has bee…
TummelVision 46: Tara Hunt Talks Whuffie, Delicious, and Shwowp!
Tara Hunt, tummler par excellence, entrepreneur, and author of The Whuffie Factor, talks with Deborah Schultz and Kevin Marks about Wikileaks, the demise of Delicious, the uses of Twitter, the essenc…
TummelVision 45: Willow Witte of Join the Impact on Napsterized political activism
Willow Witte of Join The Impact talks with Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and guest host Sarah Dopp about gender, political organizing online, and queer activism in response to California’s Proposition 8…
TummelVision 44: Stowe Boyd on social cognition, coding gender, and betweenness
Social philosopher and webthropologist Stowe Boyd joins the TummelVision crew to talk about social cognition, coding gender, and “betweenness.”
TummelVision 43: Heather Woodbury on performance, culture, and the social web
Heather Woodbury joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz to talk about culture, the social web, and performance art.
Called “a one woman Dickens” by Laurie Anderson, Heather’s work encom…
TummelVision 42: Doc Searls on consumers, capitalism, and a decade of cluetraining
The TummelVision gang visits with an old friend, Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
TummelVision 41: Josh Klein on Hacking Work
Josh Klein is a technologist, hacker, and rule-breaking innovator. With Bill Jensen, he’s the author of the new book Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results. In this episode of Tummelv…
TummelVision 39.5: “Director’s Cut” with additional commentary
Some additional conversation between Blaine Cook and Kevin Marks, including questions and comments from the TummelVision chat room (which features very smart people like Sarah Dopp)