TEDxMarin - Robert Tercek - Reclaiming The Power of Personal Narrative

Robert Tercek is one of the world's most prolific creators of interactive content. He has created breakthrough entertainment experiences on every digital platform, including satellite television, game consoles, broadband Internet, interactive television and mobile networks. His expertise spans television, telecommunications and software. To design interactive multimedia products, Mr Tercek draws upon a broad range of experience as a television director, game designer, artist, and educator. Tercek has served in executive leadership roles at major media companies, most recently as President of Digital Media at OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, and previously as Senior Vice President of Digital Media at Sony Pictures Entertainment and earlier as Creative Director at MTV: Music Television. He also co-founded five startup ventures, including 7th Level, Inc., which went public in 1993. In 2008, Robert Tercek was named a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in recognition of his effort to advance social progress through media.

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[MissVelvetElle]

Amen. Switched to netflix and YouTube to avoid advertising madness. Love this talk! Quality feels better.

[kims.johnson]

Most salient point for me was the need for us to begin taking control of telling our own stories. Good stuff.

[paulussantosowidjaja]

Wow! Interesting profession. Thank you Rob for adding this story telling awareness.

[aarongrooves]

Incredible! Everyone needs to watch this!

[mkellyBedfordHills]

Very effective disruptor for me personally. Posted to Facebook--the least I could do!

[oldmangolf]

I must have been five or six when we got our first television. Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Howdy Doody, The Lone Ranger, Gabby Hayes. I was 15 when President Kennedy was killed and the next day I watched the murder in real time of Lee Harvey Oswald. I was 22 when I watched the first man to walk on the moon. Mine is the first generation to grow up with television! It is tragic to see how this miracle is distorted and twisted by selfish and greedy interests.