David Lafontaine
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David Lafontaine

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Because not everything you read on the Internet is reliable, you can expect that at least two of the facts in the following list has been subjected to a slight touch of writer's embellishment. I'm a writer and multimedia content producer whose work has earned invitations to lecture all over the world, including a recent Fulbright Specialist program to train journalists, NGOs and pro-democracy groups in Ethiopia. My curiosity and willingness to use myself as a human lab rat to test the latest digital tools, have led me to acquire a wide range of New Media skills. I try to follow the old military maxim, "Never ask your troops to do anything you wouldn't be willing (and able) to do yourself." dave stares at youThose skills have come in handy, as I have been contracted to speak, teach, write, craft & execute social media strategies, produce & edit videos, and manage creative teams (although I still haven’t quite figured out how to beam web pages directly into the audience’s neo-cortex). You can see examples of my work in my Case Studies gallery. I am the Director of Content for DigitalFamily.com, a digital design and training firm that specializes in helping clients use technology and multimedia storytelling more effectively. Our services include content strategy and multimedia content creation, as well as design and programming. We also develop courses, online training and workshops for clients around the world. I have more than 20 years experience as a journalist, editor, and multimedia producer, and I co-wrote "Mobile Web Design for Dummies," and "iPhone & iPad Web Design for Dummies." I started my career in journalism with a Pulliam Fellowship to work as a copy editor at the Arizona Republic. From there, I took off to Venezuela to practice my Spanish as the managing editor of the Caracas Daily Journal (now the Latin American Herald-Tribune). Ultimately, I landed in Los Angeles, where I realized every Cheesehead’s fantasy of not shivering and cursing the starter on my car on days when the temperature drops below -40. I got my start on the internet in 1991, when I cracked the case of my cutting-edge Zeos 386-25 computer to insert a 2400-baud modem, and joined Prodigy and CompuServe. I was immediate struck by the way users formed communities online to share news, collaborate to create new businesses, develop their own shorthand argot language, and devise new and exciting ways of insulting each other for violating the unwritten rules. In those days, the internet was like this secret club that only a few people knew about, and all the codes of conduct, the sense of humor - heck, even the way we use obscure Monty Python references (ever wonder why unwanted email is called "spam"?) - grew out of that core userbase. I grew up reading science fiction, and I am often stopped in my tracks by the way that technologies that only hard-core nerds dreamed about have come to be taken for granted by billions.
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