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Tom Parish Inc. – Affiliations, Pricing and Staff
Tom Parish
Tom Parish is founder and CEO of Tom Parish Inc. and Laughing Cardinal Productions. A proven thought leader in the realm of social media, he has an innate ability to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Tom has an exceptional capacity to extract his clients’ fundamental philosophies and apply them in a practical and profitable way.
Tom graduated from Texas A&M and went on to work for a ground breaking spin off of MIT, Symbolics, the first company to have an official domain name on the Internet. Tom has been intimately involved with the mingled evolution of the Internet and business over the last two and half decades. He’s now following his passion of making people and their enterprises highly successful on the Internet. He gives business owners’ the tools and wisdom to make their services more readily available to their target audience and clientele.
Tom has cultivated the expertise to focus technology-oriented podcasts to specific audiences and has created over a thousand episodes, with millions of views on a variety of shows over the last 12 years. Previous shows include IT Conversations, Motorola Digital DNA show, and his own multi-interest show Talking Portraits. Talking Portraits is a show on conversation network that showcases cutting-edge individuals in tech-related fields.
Notably, he also hosted a BMC Software sponsored show for five years called EnterpriseLeadership.org, designed to illustrate where business management and IT meet at the CIO level. He currently produces an audio and video podcast for BMC Software on IT business management technologies that has over 250 episodes from a six year period.
Tom not only works within the Austin community, but has drawn experience from the world round. He has extensive experience in working with teams in India, the Ukraine, Croatia and China, as well as all across the US. The results that Tom and his company create for their clientele are internationally accessible and appreciated.
Outside of the workplace Tom has three grown children and a grandson. He enjoys living in central Austin with his sweetie and taking full advantage of the 78704 lifestyle. He also enjoys the practice of yoga and perfecting his home theatre for the ultimate movie night.
Jenny Meadows
Copy editor with a sharp eye and a second-to-none understanding of the English language. Jenny started catching errors in her father’s students’ papers at age 10 and has been going strong since! Her website and her services can be found at MyCopyEditor.com.
Larry Sayer
Audio and video production and editing for our full-service media creation studio
Robert Matney
Robert Matney is a social web strategist, communication mechanic, marketeer, and copywriter passionate about narrative and authentic discourse with audiences. Robert is interested in the intersection of identity performance, software, social collaboration, and social web measurement, and brings a wealth of web application experience, organizational design, and collaboration tactics.
For technology companies, he focuses on integrating social web platforms to foster community. As Communications Director and Relationship Advocate for Amicus, Inc. Robert Matney led the marketing, communications, and customer support divisions for a business-to-business, web application boutique firm. Under the slogan of “Freakishly Good Support” he managed a support structure known for transparency, courtesy and promptness.
Donna Lipman
Donna Lipman is an Integrative Life Coach who worked for years with Debbie Ford, and singer who toured with John Denver for years in the 1990′s. She keeps us sane.
Why a Life Coach? If you think about all the interviews we do and narrative film projects we pursue you can see the value she brings to Tom Parish Inc. – especially the Laughing Cardinal Productions (video and audio media projects). Donna keeps us both sane and inspired and brings a deeper level of insight to our efforts. Her passion for music has influenced many of our ideas for client projects.
Here’s why we think her contributions are important to our staff and our clients:
1. We believe life is an “inside job.” In other words, how you experience your life on a day to day basis is as an expression of your personal “default” system. This is an automatic system triggered by hidden underlying beliefs that cause the “stories” you tell yourself about who you are and what are your capabilities. An Integrative Coach is trained to help you identify and “integrate” those hidden beliefs so no longer are you at their effect when they are automatically triggered. By changing the thoughts that keep you from moving forward you will change your life.
2. The process used is highly interactive – emotionally, intellectually and practically. These three aspects of yourself come together in the coaching processes and are “integrated” to empower you to make new lasting changes in your life. The synergy from this integration is extremely powerful.
Darinda Huntley
Darinda Huntley contributes her print, media, and online communications experience of more than 25 years. She enjoys all things technical, yet is a firm believer that there’s no substitute for great communication, whether in person, in print, through the earbud, or on a large or tiny screen.
Darinda believes that design should never get in the way of the user; that good user interface design should make it easy for your audience to appreciate your products, your services, and your brand. She believes that flexible design with lean, clean code makes the user experience that much more pleasant, leading to repeat visits. Darinda is proficient in HTML and in CSS, along with various scripting languages. She works on Web sites, Facebook Fan Pages, User interfaces for E-media, and Blogs.
Kai Salim Ferguson
Kai is a graduate of the UT Film Department and accomplished storyteller and video producer. He has created a number of successful shorts that have received widespread distribution in film festivals globally. Kai co-produces commercial video projects at Tom Parish Inc. An overview of his work done with Tom Parish Inc (as well as his solo efforts) is available here on Vimeo.