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Wandering into a small improv comedy club to see a former coworker perform in his new-found and bizarre hobby, I was hooked. I performed for four years in the Oxymoron’Z and Jester’Z improv comedy troupes. It was a reawakening of my creative pursuits, leading to my becoming a Director in the Jester’Z, a writer and performer in the Dry Heat sketch comedy troupe, and finally into the world of general comedy, writing, and silliness.

The impact on my technical career was such that it drew me into the world of social media, where I could exercise my creative writing and newfound love of entertaining. I became one of the most well known internal bloggers in Intel, and worked in both their internal and external social media programs.

It took me a while to realize how these two areas connect, but they do. Improv brings out the unexpected and the unplanned, while social media connects people in different and unstructured ways. Improv, games, comedy, crowds, memes… they all connect.

This blog, and Improv Media, are an exploration of those connections… and anything unexpected that comes up along the way.

Bio

Jeff Moriarty has a degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and has worked the spectrum from running his own software company, to assessing information security issues, to performing improv comedy, to managing social media communities for a Fortune 100 company. Jeff helped develop and implement the internal Social Media strategy for Intel employees, and worked as the Community Manager for the external developer site supporting Intel’s mobile products. He is extremely active in the Phoenix social media community, and in addition to running the Phoenix Social Media Club, he is one of the founders of Ignite Phoenix, ImprovAZ, and the Phoenix Innovation Foundation. His versatile background and practical enterprise experience gives him a unique perspective on the social media challenges facing everyone from individuals to large businesses.  Jeff is currently the Director of Social Media Strategy at Sitewire, a Tempe based firm.