Contact Info & Where I Hang Out:

Email
danlatorre.tint@gmail.com

Twitter
@danlatorre

tint.org (here, my personal site)
harveysarles.com (my teacher’s site; admin, editor, & photo editor)

Phone/Google Voice +1.262.LATORRE  (+1.262.528.6773)

Mini-bio

Digital Product Strategy. 15 year digital media veteran.

Ex-CKSGroup-Razorfish-FunnyGarbage-RockstarGames-McCann, and other places. Now focused on the civic realm, recently at Scholastic and OpenPlans. Currently at Project for Public Spaces as VP, Digital Placemaking.

  • Instigator of the #bikenyc Twitter hashtag
  • Creator of Scholastic Teacher Share the first K-12 Open Educational Resources site (with support from the Hewlett Foundation)
  • Creator of Fixcity.org for transalt.org and Open Plans
  • Creator of the first adaptation of Ushahidi for the urban planning context while at PPS.org

Where I Work

At Project for Public Spaces – doing strategic product & service development, and rebuilding the web practice on sustainable Agile methods & platforms. My main focus is Digital Placemaking: creating social tech tools and services to enhance and amplify PPS’ community-centered approach to urban planning.

Previously at The Open Planning Project - doing product management & strategic planning for Streetsblog, Street Films, Fixcity.org, Livable Streets Community and Education

(Note: All works and opinions here are my own unless otherwise noted, and are not on behalf of companies, organizations, or persons that employ me or that I am involved with on a formal or informal volunteer basis. All posts are under Creative Commons Attribution license, feel free use and quote as you like just credit me by name and link to the source post when doing so, thank you.)

About tint.org

I post to this site to share & work out thoughts and questions I just can’t fit into Twitter or directly apply to the work I’m currently doing.

I’m an intellectual misfit, a multi-cultural third culture kid, with a Colombian and Norwegian-American background who grew up in Bogota, San Diego, Minneapolis. For the past 15 years New York City is what I call home. Speaking broadly my interdisciplinary interests run across anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, media, socio-linguistics, philosophy, zen buddhism, and applied cultural change/advocacy. But then that doesn’t get us anywhere these days does it?

People
I became aware of Mike Wesch after his web2.0/anthro video came out in Jan ’07, and when talking with him at the 2007 Idea Conference he told me that basically most all of my questions and interests are that of Media Ecology, and that I should talk with Lance Strate. I hung out with Lance on Twitter, finally met him and eventually spoke on one of his conference panels which really helped gather some thoughts on my experience, later attended the 2009 Media Ecology Association convention, and now find just how true Mike’s goading was.  My central teacher to date is Harvey Sarles, I was a student of his in the early 90′s, and have continued dialogue with him ever since. (You can learn more about Harvey from his post on his teachers.) I run his blog and function as a photo editor for him.

It seems appropriate, being an anthro-oriented social media professional, that I feel you’ll understand me better by the *people* that deeply influence me, rather than by the words I use to describe myself.

Hope you find interesting people and ideas here, please share yours.

- Daniel Latorre

 
  • http://communicativeaction.blogspot.com Mike Plugh

    This seems like an appropriate place to say hello. Great to meet you at IGS. I was really pleased to meet Harvey and chat with him, if only briefly. Lance Strate is my mentor, so it would seem that we’ve crossed streams and entered into this adventure’s next stage together. Stay in touch and hopefully we’ll get to meet sooner than later. Good luck with everything and I’ll be by here often to participate.

    Cheers!
    Mike Plugh