Julie Ridl studied ancient history, classical literature, storytelling, folk tales, fiction writing, and journalism. These are all related pursuits. She has worked in every kind of communications office that the corporate and agency communities have conceived during the past three decades, including employee communications, investor relations, public relations, organizational dynamics, learning offices, marketing communications groups, knowledge management groups, web development groups, and information technology groups. Some of these groups she managed. She has spent a lot of time working in office furniture and online communities, and ultimately boils her work down to one task... storytelling. People respond to good stories and great timing, or at least sensitive timing. She's really been working on that one thing in all these ways all this time. She is our chief empath, spending much of her time listening to our customers and their customers, and figuring out what everybody needs. When she's not knitting stories together, she's actually knitting, often while Jack reads to her, and with one or two of four possible pets on her lap, sometimes in the company of grownup type kids, Meridith and Jason, who do visit, but never often enough.
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AMA West Michigan
Hope College
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Tales from the Scale
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Ad Club, West Michigan
Ravelry.com
PDMA West Michigan
AMA West Michigan
Hope College
JournalCon
Featured in these Books, Magazines, Newspapers
Interaction Design
Graphis' designagencies.com
Secrets of Successful Websites
Red Herring
Fortune
Health
NY Times
Washington Post
Tales from the Scale
Awards
AIGA
American Center for Design
Communications Arts
Creativity
Critique
Graphis
How
Step Magazine
Affiliations
AIGA
AMA West Michigan
Ad Club, West Michigan
Ravelry.com
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud
My husband and I are working with our lawyer to set up a trust for our few assets. Just trying to line up our ducks, you know. In the process of doing this, I’ve needed to ransack my pretty impressive wall of files to find things like deeds and accounts and etc. I have always kept [...]
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I didn’t grow up with the Internet. It came after most of my learning habits had been wired in. But once I had access, I never looked back. My online days began wallowing about in Gopher at my college, getting happily lost in link layers, following my nose and reading… a lot. Learning a lot. [...]
Poetry Blitz
It’s April 1, and in our family’s world, that means the start of National Poetry Month, and the day is observed beginning at midnight, when poets paste poetry in unusual and startling places for all the world to see… So here is a poem for today by the great and small Naomi Shihab Nye, who ought [...]
How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud
My husband and I are working with our lawyer to set up a trust for our few assets. Just trying to line up our ducks, you know. In the process of doing this, I’ve needed to ransack my pretty impressive wall of files to find things like deeds and accounts and etc. I have always kept [...]
printfreegraphpaper.com
I didn’t grow up with the Internet. It came after most of my learning habits had been wired in. But once I had access, I never looked back. My online days began wallowing about in Gopher at my college, getting happily lost in link layers, following my nose and reading… a lot. Learning a lot. [...]
Poetry Blitz
It’s April 1, and in our family’s world, that means the start of National Poetry Month, and the day is observed beginning at midnight, when poets paste poetry in unusual and startling places for all the world to see… So here is a poem for today by the great and small Naomi Shihab Nye, who ought [...]