Dick Carlson is an Instructional Designer, author, speaker and project manager who develops amazing learning experiences for technical audiences. Without thinking it through completely, he moved to South Carolina because his wife found a new job there and it was sunny. He now sweats a lot more than he did in Seattle, but really enjoys the “Famously Hot” weather.
He writes a blog called “TechHerding” that started when he began herding technical cats at the Microsoft Corporation over seven years ago. He was sometimes successful at this. Other times, living in a place with an average August temperature of “Oh My God” sounded like a really nice vacation. He no longer does cat-herding (for Microsoft or anyone else) but the name stuck. It’s also at the top of the search engines, so for good or bad it’s going to stay.
Dick’s current project is a web site called “ContentPreneuring.com” where he helps businesses take the knowledge in their heads and sell it for huge, embarrassing heaps of money. This is done by “giving away what you know to build your business”, according to the tag line. (If this made sense to you, there would be no need to pay him to help you — right?)
If you’d like to hire him to work with you, it’s important that you realize that he’s over 50 years old — pretty much a relic — and has been doing this for a very, very long time. He’s opinionated, funny, blunt, and can be pretty snarky. (Just check out his Twitter feed at @TechHerding if you don’t believe me.)
On the plus side, he hangs out with younger Gen-X / Gen-Next technical types on social media sites, and actually knows how to talk to them without sounding foolish. The stuff he does is described by clients as incredible and usually knocks your socks off. And he’ll blast you past your business goals like poop through a goose.
So if that’s what you’d like, do the email thing. You can reach him at Dick@DickCarlson.com .