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 18: Laura Fitton on the power of Twitter, the lazy web and you
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TummelVision 17: Sunny Bates on creativity, talent and Kickstarter projects
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Sunny Bates is one of the most successful connectors in the Internet start-up realm. She has an extremely successful executive search firm and acts as an advisor to many…
TummelVision 16: Teresa Nielsen-Hayden and Scott Rosenberg the uber-tummlers tell us how it’s done
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We speak with two great tummlers in this episode. Teresa Nielsen-Hayden is a science fiction editor and was the first boingboing comments moderator when they returned to…
TummelVision 15: Janera Soerel on the art of the global conversation
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TummelVision 14: Derek Powazek on designing the social website
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80’s song title: “One thing leads to another”
TummelVision 13: Zoë Keating on being a one women record label
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Zoë Keating joined us to talk about her music and how she connects with people online. Zoë is a Classical cellist, who uses the techniques of electronic music using a ‘c…
TummelVision 12: Christian Crumlish on the mechanics of designing for online community
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Christian Crumlish is the Director of Yahoo’s interface library and the co-author of Designing Social Interfaces.
TummelVision 11: Cathy Brooks on finding your personal story
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Cathy Brooks has been part of the tech start-up scene for a long time and often connects people with one another.
Freshly back from SXSW, the fours of us discussed the e…
TummelVision 10: Dave McClure live from SXSW on startups, angel investing and VC’s
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We ventured to SXSW where the whole TWIT crew was hosted very hospitably by the beautiful Texas co-working space. We also got the have the unique experience of seeing ea…
TummelVision 9: Brian Oberkirch on the art of small good things
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We had a great chat with Brian Oberkirch on the implicit and explicit impact of the social and geo-loco services rippling through our lives. Brian is a ‘multi-lingual’…
TummelVision 8: Bill Corbett on MST3K and bringing the audience along for the ride [explicit]
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We had a great conversation with hilarious and poetic playwright and comic actor Bill Corbett (Rifftrax, Mystery Science Theatre 3000) about elements of improv, playwrigh…
TummelVision 7: Elizabeth Churchill on ‘connecting the dots’, social software & human behavior
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Do you speak-a my language? Elizabeth Churchill – TummelVision Ep. 7 from heather gold on Vimeo.
There was a little Buzz, a little iPad and a lot of accents swirling aro…
TummelVision 6: Adrian Chan on Social Interaction Design
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Adrian Chan joined us to talk about Social Interaction Design, which he describes thus:
Social interaction design is UX and interaction design for social media. It’s the …
TummelVision 5: Allee Willis on collaboration, being an uber-social artist and songwriter
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The 80s title of today’s show comes from Stir It Up one of many hits written by our guest Allee Willis who creates in layers, in many mediums and is a pioneering social…
TummelVision 4: Kathy Sierra on creating passionate users and you
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Kathy Sierra joined us for a great conversation about her biggest passion: you. Note-worthy moments and themes:
– How do you create excellent experiences for users
– Cl…
TummelVision 3: Heather Champ and George Oates on setting the tone for a million user website
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Deb and Kevin chat with two of the women who helped make what gets called “community” in the “web 2.0” world work. Heather videos in from the airport for a minute. Cham…
TummelVision 2: Nicole Lazarro on social gaming, play & emotions
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Thanks to guest game designer Nicole Lazzaro
What we discussed this week.
-Nicole’s thoughts on CES trends. The game world is missing the social experience. Nicole’s idea…
TummelVision 1: Jerry Michalski the proto-tummler on the art of connecting people
Recorded on Sept 22, 2009 with guest Jerry Michalski. Many thanks to the TWiT army and odtv.me for making this.
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80’s theme song: I’ll Tummel for Ya