Speaking and presentations

About information design, etc.

Top 7 Recipes for Confusion, Information Architecture Summit, Blue Shield of California, Berkeley City College, Extractable, Pivotal Labs, ThoughtWorks
Video of presentation (56 min.)

Information Design, University of California-Berkeley Extension (four-week class addressing both interactive media and print)

Visual Communication, University of California-Berkeley Extension (four-week class addressing both interactive media and print)

Information Design, Media Alliance, San Francisco

Information Design, Bay Area Editors' Forum, San Francisco

Editing for Interactive Media, Bay Area Editors' Forum (guest speaker)

Editing for Multimedia, University of California-Berkeley Extension (day-long primer on interactive media)

Intro to interactive media, University of California-Berkeley Extension (guest speaker)

"The Editor as Photographer"; "Getting a Photo into Print": Folio West Publishing Conference, Los Angeles

"How Editors Can Successfully Take Their Own Photos": Folio Publishing Conference, New York

"Photography: What an Editor Must Know": Folio Publishing Conference, New York

"Magazine Photography: What an Editor Must Know": Folio Publishing Conference, New York

About diplomat Philip Habib

Cursed is the Peacemaker book cover[Amb. Philip Habib is the subject of my second book, "Cursed Is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat Versus the Israeli General, Beirut 1982" Info about book]

Still of John Boykin speakingAmerican Academy of Diplomacy, State Department, Washington, DC
Video of speech
(6 min., 22 sec.)

Commonwealth Club, San Francisco
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Washington, DC
Foreign Service Association of Northern California, San Francisco
Kiwanas Club of San Mateo, CA

 

About writing and editing

Science Writing for Magazines, University of California-Santa Cruz (faculty for graduate program in science communications)

Case study in magazine editing, University of California-Berkeley Extension (guest speaker)

Case study in how an article is edited, University of California-Santa Cruz (guest speaker for graduate program in science communications)

Editorial Style in Magazines, Menlo College (guest speaker)

Interviewing: What Happens on an Editor's Desk; and Articles: How to Structure, San Jose writers conference

Professionalism and Ethics, Sacramento writers conference, San Jose writers conference

Clear writing, Stanford Publishing Course

Tools of the editing trade, Stanford Publishing Course

 

I've done innumerable presentations to clients, executives, teammates, and professional conferences. I also taught at the university level, given lots of speeches, and been interviewed many times on radio and TV. Here are the more notable talks.

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