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Kenan Doyle Branam

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"Making Sense of the Information Age"

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"We speak, not only to tell others what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think." - J. Hughlings Jackson (1915)

The Information Age is here and so we are faced with paradigm shifts in every aspect of our experience: personal, interpersonal, social, economic, political, and spiritual.

This series of presentations focuses on specific ways that we can change our perspectives and attitudes to develop better ways to communicate.

Below are a few topics prepared around the technological, psychological, and sociological issues of our Information Evolution. The titles, agenda, and content will be adapted to the special interests of your group.


Kenan Doyle Branam presents seminars, publishes articles, and produces video and other media about communications in the ever changing environment of the Information Age.

He began presenting seminars and facilitating groups in the mid-70's while training at the Gestalt Institute of Houston. Since then, Kenan has applied his communications skills to his life-long profession as a media producer in broadcast television, agency advertising, corporate communications, new digital media, and now, on the Web. In any medium, Kenan is a media communications professional, leading-edge innovator, a prophet, and an evangelist for making sense of the Information Age evolution.

Call 713-857-3116 or email kenan@branam.com to discuss availability. Please allow enough lead time for us to become familiar with and prepare for the special interests of your group. Thank you for your attention.

'Einstein' by Kenan Branam

e=mc²

e = Energy˜The Experience
m = Mass˜Medium
c = Light˜Consciousness
2 = squared˜shared

Toward a Special Theory of Human Experience

The human experience has been limited by language and media of communication in thinking, learning, and understanding the nature of our universe.

Now, the Internet is a technological projection of our physical nervous system. The Web challenges and enables us to expand our consciousness into multiple dimensions.

Through experiencing and reflecting, we can learn from the Web more about our thinking selves.

PowerPoint Slide Show The Human Media Experience
Digital Media
Times change. A growing number of "Sleeping Beauty" consumers are waking up. Is it because consumers are becoming conscious of their basic human rights not to be seduced, manipulated, controlled, attacked, and raped by distasteful, intrusive, uninvited, abusive advertising.

Sleeping Beauty Awakes!

Best Practices for Using Digital Media for Customer Relations, Advertising, & Marketing

The Internet is not just another venue for the distribution of unsolicited, in-your-face advertising. It's a channel for truly interactive, user-centered communication. Whether the channel is a Web page, email, listserv, mail list, peer-to-peer, blogg, video conference, or distributed removable media, Digital Media can deliver information with greater dimension and depth than older communication technology. But Cyber Beauty demands and deserves a more Meaningful Experience.

PowerPoint Slide Show Sleeping Beauty PowerPoint Slide Show
Web Page Information Is Power
Web Page Advertising vrs Information or "Get Outta My Face!"
The Bucky Ball 
Knowledge thus exists in relationship rather than in an "objective" world or in "subjective" experience. In information theory, "information" is defined in terms of a "relationship" between an input and a receiving devise. A book contains no information for someone who can't read.
The Holographic Model - John R. Battista
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Collaborative Communications in Virtual Community

We thought we were literate if we could read and write. But email and the Web confronts us with a whole new World of challenges! Writing skills, social etiquette, message management, spam filtering, and virtual relationships can cause chaos in personal or business relationships. Shouldn't we have learned something about this in grade school? Now, let us go back to the basics: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How!  Now, how does that work in ecommunications?

Web Page Information IS Relationship
Web Page Partnering for Intercourse or "Can we talk?"
Web Page Netiquette for the MCA-I eCommunity
Time - a collage by Kenan Branam 
"… a system cannot be analyzed into parts. This leads to the radically new notion of unbroken wholeness of the entire universe. You cannot take it apart. For if you do, what you end up with is not contained within the original whole. It is created by the act of analysis."
David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Evolution of Knowledge Management

How do we store and retrieve information relevant to our needs without being "overloaded"? We have to expand our perspective. We need to stop obsessing about "data" and "things" and develop an awareness of "context" and "process." We must develop our ability to conceptualize in context of personal, social, economic, and political issues.

Power Point Presentation PPS Evolution of Knowledge Management
Let  Light by Arthur Douet 
"A human being is part of the Whole...He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
Albert Einstein

The Globalization of the Human Experience

The American dream of freedom, equality, and individualism is not fulfilled even in its own cradle. It's still evolving! We still reject the power to determine our own lives. We still abuse ourselves and each other, as well as those not in our tribe. How can you be yourself and be a citizen of the World? The Golden Secret is, "We do to others what we do to ourselves."

Web Page MetaMedia Beyond Technology
Genetic Code 
All matter contains information.
Mapping the genome confronts us with the astounding realization that form has meaning. Meaning is not so much in the individual molecules but in their relationship to the whole pattern of the gene.

Form IS Meaning!

Now, here's something for the "futurists" in us all. The most important issue in the Information Age is the organization of information storage and retrieval. Let us "think out of the box" of 4-D and have fun exploring the latest attempts at developing metaphors that challenge the conventional computer Desktop and "librarian" metaphors. There's self-organizing systems, time-dimensional hierarchies, and extrapolations from the Chaos Theory, System Theory, Fractals, Genetics, and even Sacred Geometry. Just maybe, we could go beyond these ideas with a theory that there is a natural universal law for information organization! Form IS Meaning!

Power Point Presentation PPS Form IS Meaning (work in progress)