This past week at our New York Rotary Club, Branding expert, Trish Rubin brought a wonderful and very interesting speaker—Daniel Sieberg who is an Emmy-nominated TV reporter, host and author of The Digital Diet–which is a journey of a 28 day plan to take control of many of our addictions to all the technology we live with.
Daniel was such an interesting and engaging speaker that he held everyone's attention and not one blackberry or iphone appeared to be in motion!
A little bit about Daniel and this says it all and much better then how I would paraphrase:
From CNN to PBS to CBS.
From American Morning to The Situation Room, if you are a news junkie, you've heard and seen Daniel Seiberg's touch on TV. Daniel is an award winning journalist, of Emmy's, Peabody Awards, and the highest regard of his colleagues in the news business. Daniel is a Techie's techie, who combines his love of technology with a good balance of offline savvy. This Vancouver transplant has a wide variety of work on any given day. Recently even filling the overnight hours as the anchor for ABC World News Overnight.
Daniel's newest venture is his Book "The Digital Diet" which offers a plan to business and professionals that helps them "reboot" their use of technology to bring balance in their personal lives. It is a personal journey–his own struggle of dealing with the " technology intake", which is often a tsunami of information that overwhelms people and distances them from their personal lives as they attempt to get close to their business goals.
Daniel is now dedicated to helping people see his 28 day plan as an opportunity to make technology work for us rather than the other way around! mr Sieberg, the father of a new baby, is helping to make the work more balanced for his colleagues and pave the way for his future. Today, we suffer from "Face book Envy" according to Daniel as we think other people's portrayal of their lives on line is better than ours. Using technology in better balance will assure that we relax this idea of a digital presence that is more desirable that tried and true face to face communication.
Thank you, Trish for bringing such an excellent speaker to our club–
Trish Rubin
The EdVentures Group BRANDING
646.508.3723
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Sounds like a good program and an excellent book, Andrea! Working smart is applying technology to work for us, vs becoming slaves (in any way) to tech. I’m all for efficiency and effectiveness. Always good to stand back and take a look, isn’t it? Thanks for sharing this insight!