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"Follow your passion" is a common phrase people say when it comes to pursuing a new role. That's all well and good, but how does that translate when you feel that your passion has nothing to do with technology? Alli Goldberg, today's featured Empjoyee makes it clear that there really can be an intersection between what you love and technology. And if you're having a hard time finding it out there already, then you can create the future you want for yourself. Alli and her friend Jen Jamula co-founded Blogologues.org, a comedy organization focused on the intersection of theater and technology. Enjoy! Listen now to learn how Alli: Continues to explore the juxtaposition of arts and tech through new mediums Acts on ideas and "books the theater" to transform that idea into reality in a matter of weeks Iterates on models to scale a business centered on bringing people together to experience tech Get your hands on the full episode notes over at https://empjoyment.com/14 From Insight to Action Alli encourages us to "book the theater", which generally means to commit to the #1 action that imposes a deadline make progress in a tangible external way (i.e. thinking "I'll do X by Y." is not enough). When Jen and Alli had the idea to act out the internet, physically booking the theater locked them into the decision and got them to take a fun idea into a hilarious reality. Now it's your turn. Your Joyney: Share with us one idea, project, or outcome that you've been wanting to accomplish and what you plan to do this month to "book the theater" within the Empjoyment Community. Getting to Know Today's Featured Empjoyee: Alli Goldberg! Allison Goldberg is Yale graduate and a co-creator / producer of Blogologues, a sketch comedy show in which internet content is performed live and verbatim. Blogologues has been featured in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, CBS, The Huffington Post, NPR and more. She is also one of the co-creative directors of GoldJam Creative, an organization dedicated to exploring the influence of the Information Age on communication, and to bringing comedy and creativity to the workplace. Through GoldJam Creatiive, Alli has leads communication skills workshops for companies, co-working spaces, incubators and student groups as varied as Buzzfeed, Time Warner, Spotify, has created content for brands such as The Guardian and Time Out New York, and has spoken and performed at conferences nationwide, including SXSW, Internet Week, and TheLi.st Summit.
Today's episode is with stellar actresses and comedians, Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula, who co-created the cult-hit sketch show, Blogologues! Blogologues takes online pieces like Yelp reviews, Missed Connections, and blogs and performs them as monologues! The show has gotten great reviews from Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and Vice. CBS called it one of the 5 best things to do in NYC. While Jen and Alli were in LA to perform the show they sat down to talk with Jason about when and where they got into performing, how they met, how they came up with and started Blogologues in 2011, and internet culture. They are delightful, fun, brilliant women and Jason has a great talk with them. They are performing Blogologues in Palo Alto, CA this Friday, August 18th at the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theater. The show is at 10pm! They will be back in NYC in September performing their other show, “How to Break Up By Text,” on September 15th at 8pm at The PIT! Get tickets online at their websites: www.blogologues.org/ www.howtobreakupbytext.com/ Social Media: Facebook: @BlogologuesNYC, @ThereItIsPod Twitter: @Blog_ologues, @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram: @Blogologues, @JasonFarrPics This week's episode of Comedy Bang Bang was sponsored by Blue Apron. We weren't. Comedy Bang Bang was.
Where's the romance in a Snapchat? The thrill in an email? When the conversation moves from online dating to texting, how much do flirty digital conversations represent how we're gonna interact in the flesh? And when we're on a dinner date and our lover's fingers are talking to someone else, how hot and bothered can we really get? On today's show, Ben is joined in the studio by Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula, the founders of the theater troupe Blogologues and the No Text Weekend, which hits the real world September 23rd - 25th. We discuss what annoys us the most about how relationships are carried out via text, if the way we text represents the respect we have for the person on the other end of the line, and if it was a personal or professional drive that inspired the ladies to organize a massive event of events and texting abstinence. Can we put down our phone for 30 minutes and converse IRL? Listen and find out.
Blogologues brings your favorite blog posts to the stage, along with other wacky web material that probably shouldn't be read aloud. This podcast features Steven Spielberg Hates Me from Girl on the Contrary.