About: Clay Johnson
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- Role : Communication, Innovation, Culture, Strategic Planning
- Website : https://executiveforum.net/courses/the-information-diet-a-case-for-conscious-consumption/
- Experience : Clay Johnson is best known as the co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008. After leaving Blue State, Johnson was the director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, where he built an army of 2000 developers and designers to build open source tools to give people greater access to government data. He was awarded the Google/O’Reilly Open Source Organizer of the year in 2009, was one of Federal Computing Week’s Fed 100 in 2010, and won the CampaignTech Innovator award in 2011. - See more at: http://www.informationdiet.com/about#sthash.OdeArDcG.dpuf
- Specialist in : Johnson’s combination of experience as a developer, working in politics, entrepreneurism, and non-profit work gives him a unique perspective on media and culture. His life is dedicated to giving people greater access to the truth about what’s going on in their communities, their cities and their governments. He still claims that he learned all he needs to know from a two year tour as the late-shift waiter at Waffle House in Atlanta, GA. - See more at: http://www.informationdiet.com/about#sthash.OdeArDcG.dpuf
Topics Handling
| Course Name | Lesson Name | Complexity | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Johnson | Full Program Video. | 170 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Questions and Answers. | 10:45 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Hyper-Literacy and a Healthy Information Diet. | 7:31 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Managing Social Media. | 2:09 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Why Whole News Needs to be Part of the Diet. | 9:32 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Making a Point to Produce. | 9:21 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | The Junk Must Go | 8:57 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | The Currency of Conscious Consumption. | 13:27 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Information Oversupply. | 7:13 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Purple America. | 3:34 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | News, Opinion and Reading Between the Lines. | 11:59 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Too Much Affirmation, Not Enough Information. | 16:13 mins | |
| Clay Johnson | Introduction: How's Your Diet. | 9:32 mins |
As fast and furiously as information flows today, how to cut through all the clutter to get to what really matters to a project, a team, a company? Clay Johnson draws from extensive experience in business, politics and the non-profit world to show executives how to filter the deluge of information to discern the truth, recognize what’s genuine and find the clarity of vision necessary to lead an organization.
Just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can cause cluelessness, posits Johnson, renowned for his 2012 book <i>The Information Diet</i>, as well as his work building President Barack Obama’s groundbreaking 2008 online campaign, and for leading efforts to build open-source tools for greater public access to government data.
The truth is out there. Johnson is showing organizations and their leaders how to find it through data literacy, attention fitness, and engagement in the economics of information. A compelling speaker and a true visionary for the Information Age, Johnson’s prescribed diet is for anyone who strives to stay smart, productive and sane, in business and in life.