Hi, I'm Jimmy Guterman. I have edited or written for more than 100 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers, some of which are still in existence. I have published six books about rock’n’roll, some of which are still in print. I have produced several dozen records, some of which I was paid for. I have consulted for many companies, none of which I will joke about. On this website, you can find out more about me than you’d ever want to know.
Current and Recent ActivitiesI am senior editor of Harvard Business Review. Before that I was executive editor of MIT Sloan Management Review. Before that, I was editorial director of the Radar Group at O'Reilly Media, where I edited Release 2.0, among other things. And before that I was an editor at large for a team at Harvard Business School Publishing that publishes the online and print publications I work for now, thus closing the circle. I'm one of the people helping put together TEDxBoston, which is coming July 29. The most recent record I produced is The Sandinista Project (the double CD and deluxe packaging remains a mere $18.98 on Amazon). If you're here because you're looking for editorial development, management, production, and consulting, my business, The Vineyard Group, is not now accepting new clients, either in the traditional or new media practices. guterman.com is my personal site.Some older projects I get asked aboutForrester Magazine
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Semi-Recent WritingMy blog is here; I'm on twitter as well. As of mid-March 2010 (right after my guestblogger stint on BoingBoing; see posts from my first week and my second week there), the most commonly visited posts on my blog (not counting the two brief times I gave away The Sandinista Project) are:
I contributed regularly to the O'Reilly Radar while I edited Release 2.0. I mused about innovation, business, and two of my favorite projects in this AllThingsD column. I've been asked to post my editor's columns for Forrester, which I've done here ("A Magazine?), here ("Power to the People"), and here ("Same as The Old Boss"), all in PDF. I don't do much periodical work anymore. I wrote a crabby note about Steve Jobs for Technology Review. My most recent piece in FORTUNE, pretty old already so I should take it off this home page, was about mobile phones on commercial airplanes. Finally out, a mere four years after I wrote the liner notes for it, is Wallace Shawn's The Fever. You can also read a not-bad 2005 op-ed piece for The Boston Globe and an Astral Weeks essay for HeadButler.com. (I also wrote an appreciation of Johnny Cash for the Globe when he died in 2003.) A while back I was part of a team asked to figure out how to save a particular dot-com magazine. An assignment to profile Bob Moog turned, alas, into an obituary. Much of my writing now is either for Harvard Business Review or for books that won't be available for a long, long time. If you're so inclined, you can see a photo of me here. |
email: jimmy AT guterman dot com (spaces added in a vain attempt to reduce spam)
Apologies to Jakob Nielsen. Anyone who has seen his useit.com knows he thought up this site's design. Expect few graphics and zero multimedia on this modest site. Last site update: 23 June 2010.
