In this book, I define the principles, frame the methods and outline the technological strategies necessary to answer challenges that learners in the wired age face. Here I introduce new perspectives, demonstrate specific methods and provide unique and meaningful exercises.

In TOT I explore old prinicples from various academic disciplines and merge them into a comprehensive interactive communications philosophy that simply states that we must attract, inform and invoke our audiences into comprehension and toward tangible, significant outcomes.

The animation and interactive authoring application known as Flash was a big part of my early career. I was asked by the legendary Scott Hamilin to be a contributing author to his book. I wrote the last two chapters about Rich Internet Applications.

Receiving the Webby Award Honoree Certificate placing our project, Jamestown, for the History Channel in the top 15% of entrents in the Cultural Organizations category.

Here I was the executive producer, chief information architect/designer, application designer, co-writer, storyboard artist and creative director.

In 2005 my team and I were honored with the Webby Award—the top honor in the category of Cultural Organizations for our work on Lakota Wintercounts for the Smithsonian.

On this project I was the executive producer, senior information architect/designer, application designer and creative director.

In 2005 we were also honored with this prestegious international award for our Lakota Wintercounts project for the Smithsonian. There were only 40 given internationally and ours was one of only two American projects to win the award.

On this project I was the executive producer, senior information architect/designer, application designer and creative director.

In 2003 Communication Arts and Print magazines honored my team with an Excellence in Interactive Communications Award for Forests, Fields & The Falls: Connecting Minnesota, an online exhibit for the Minnesota Historical Society.

I was the executive producer, information designer, application designer, writer, storyboard artist and creative director.

The AIGA began awarding certain books with their Seal of Excellence in 2002. My book, Train of Thoughts: Designing the Effective Web Experience (New Riders, 2002) was one of the first six books to receive this award. TOT was featured in the New Riders Publishing Voices That Matter series as a result.

When I was with Martin/Williams as the Creative Supervisor for the i-Group, I developed a series of Webisodes for Powertel that were honored with a regional AGIA award. These projects can be accessed here.

I was the producer, information designer, application designer, storyboard artist and design director.

In 2000, an e-Learning application that I creative—and design-directed for Chrysler garnared this prestigous award. It's an important award because Macromedia (now Adobe), was the developer of the software that everyone in the e-learning industry (and the world at large) was using to create e-learning applications.