Résumé
Core Services
• Content strategy, research, and editing.
• Writing and Editing for the Web classes, in-house training and
workshops.
• Online science communications specialist.
• Speaking, demos, and presentations.
Resume Contents
Content Strategy
"Writing for the Web" classes &
workshops
Speaking and Presentations
Web Positions
Science Communications
Education
Professional Organizations
American
Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC
(ongoing)
• Develop questionnaire
to analyze customer and
staff satisfaction with
API.org.
• Conduct
staff interviews and analysis.
• Next steps: Develop improved site
architecture during new
CMS implementation.
Prof.
Janine Wedel
• Content strategist and information architect for professor, policy anthropologist
and award-winning author.
• Site producer, working with Ratchford
Designs for graphic design, and Irina
Kruzes Design for site management and build-out.
American
Chemical Society ,
Washington DC
(ongoing)
• Content analysis and reorganization
for Meetings section. Audience needs
analysis, usability focus, editing and
writing, content labeling
and identification.
• Staff training for ACS content
owners and managers throughout summer
2003.
Porter-Novelli
Public Relations
New York City
• Content strategy, site analysis and content editing strategy
for new pharmaceutical client site launch.
• Content templates development, language editing, formatting
structure.
Harvard
Medical School
Boston, Mass.
• Content development consulting, audience
strategy development, site architecture.
• Language and content usability; audience specific language analysis.
• Alignment with Harvard University site, Harvard Medical School
intranet, and online publications goals.
• Best practices development, competition analysis.
Click & Pledge,
Virginia
Company provides
top software for a wide range
of clients, enablingusers
to pledge/donate with one
click, as well as other services.
• Complete content editorial focus
and text formatting, web editing and
writing.
• Secondary level IA as needed
in certain sections, to clarify content
options.
National
Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
• Content strategy and editorial services for NAS Intranet.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Producer:
"Nifty Fifty" interactive site
Washington, DC
• Editor and producer of science section on NSF's 50th Anniversary
web site.
• Interactivity concept development, layout and format.
• Note: text could not be altered in any way.
• Subcontractor through Crabtree + Co.
Site developed by their programmers and artists.
Visual Mining, Inc.
Software development company.
• Marketing development for company
repositioning and name change.
• Editor, writer and producer
of two new company sites
• Content developer; online content
strategies.
• Usability issues, audience development.
Decision Control
Demo
• Writer, editor and producer
for Visual Mining's new product demo.
Duke
University Primate Center,
Durham, N.C.
Dr. Ken Glander, Director
• Content Strategy and Information Architecture for science site-lemur
research and conservation.
• Site development will
be done in-house by DUPC staff.
NIAID/NIH- National
institute for Allergy and
Infectious Diseases at the
National Institutes of Health "NIAID
Fiftieth Anniversary"
Bethesda, Md.
• Online Editorial Director and Producer.
• Project managing.
• Web team building.
• Historical and image research.
• Developing and editing content.
• Site coordination and production.
UMBI-
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
College Park, Md.
• Editor and Producer
• Audience definition and content development..
• Site redesign and graphic coordination.
First Washington Realty Trust
Bethesda, Md. in progress
• Producer and editor for premier realty investment company.
• Site concept, audience development.
• Content organization and development.
National
Sea Grant College Program Media Center
Washington DC
• Editor and Producer.
• Site redesign and reorganization.
• Defining audience focus on science media,
Sea Grant colleges and institutions.
• Coordination and hiring of designer.
Maryland
Science Center
Baltimore, Md.
• Multimedia science writer
• Hubble Space Telescope exhibit (April 1999)
Environmental
Protection Agency
• Project management.
• "Design for the Environment" Web site.
• Writing, editing, research.
• Eastern Research Group, Arlington, Va.
American
Society for Microbiology
"Microbe!"
-Web Editor, Science Writer,
Producer
• Science communications Web site for kids
(in beta-not completed.)
• Research and content, writing and content
development; graphic conception and
coordination.
• Focus group with 28 children for educational "Microbe"
Web site.
Howard University, April 1997.
"WRITING
for the WEB" WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
• Customized,
in-house web writing staff training,
for associations, government, businesses and science organizations.
See client list
• Open Web Writing
classes and workshops:
Washington DC Monthly
Web Writing Workshops:
"Writing
and Editing for the Web"-open classes
held at the National
Press Club, Washington, DC.
• Adjunct faculty at former Center
for Professional Development
at Georgetown University.
CCT MA Program (Communication,
Culture & Technology)
SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
(Current speaking engagements
and updates)
2007
The 16th Annual Corporate Communicators
Conference
Sponsored by Ragan Communications.
Chicago, Ill.
May 8-10, 2007
CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants
SIG
Invited speaker - “6 Steps to Web Content Success”
May 2007
Ragan 2007 Government Communicators
Conference
Washington DC
Invited speaker and session organizer.
Society
for Technical Communication
Invited speaker.
Washington, DC
March 10, 2007
2006
2006 Web
Content Management Conference
(Invited Web Writing
Workshop leader)
Sponsored by Ragan Communications.
Chicago, Ill.
DEC. 2006
CPCUG -Capitol
PC Users Group
Invited speaker.
"Beautiful, Useful AND Credible- Evaluating web sites
for reliability”
August 2006
Business Her Way - the voice of women in business'
Radio Interview - "Credibility-How to find it online "
Listen live at www.businessherway.net
August 2006
National
Writers Union -DC Chapter
Invited Speaker.
"Web Content Strategy Essentials"
May 2006
2005
2005 Web
Content Management Conference
(Invited Web Writing
Workshop leader.)
Sponsored by Ragan Communications.
Chicago, Ill.
"Writing for the Web-and
your business"
Textron Web Summit 2005
Atlanta, Ga.
Nov.8, 2005
“Web Writing
Breakout Session”
Southern Rivers Energy
Marketing, Member Services and Communications
Fall Conference
Atlanta, Ga.
Nov.7, 2005
“6 Steps to Web Site Success”
Women's Business Center
Washington, DC
March 15, 2005
"Print and multimedia-can
they co-exist?"
Westat Research Corporation
Bethesda, MD
March 24, 2005
2004
"Content Strategy for Business
Websites"
DCWW Talk
December 7, 2004
"Marketing and Communications"
"Web Writing Techniques"
General Services Administration conference
"The Power of GSA.GOV:
A Conference for GSA.GOV Content Managers"
Kansas City, MO
Nov. 17, 2004
2004
Web Content Management Conference
Web Writing workwshop trainer.
Sponsored by Ragan
Communications.
Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2004
The Fairmont Hotel, Chicago.
CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants
SIG
Invited speaker - "Giving Readers Targeted Content"
April 2004
DCWW & "Content & Coffee" Panel
April 19, 2004
Women Business
Owners of Montgomery County
Business Tools Workshop
"Content
Strategy for Business Websites"
April 7, 2004
“Web Layout Techniques”
CPCUG Users Group meeting workshop.
January 2004
2003
(See also post 2003 speaking
dates and topics)
Washington Independent Writers
"Weaving Web Content and Structure"
Panel discussion on working as an online writer.
Washington DC
December, 2003
DC Web Women
"The Freelancers Ball - Making it as a Consultant"
Washington DC
June, 2003
Society
for Technical Communication
"Editing Complexity for the Web"
Web editing mini-workshop.
Washington, DC
June 2003
16th INQUA Congress
"Communicating the Frontiers of Science to the Public"
Reno, Nevada
July 28, 2003
National
Association of Science Writers Conference
"Using multimedia for Research Magazines"
Roundtable host
Denver, CO
February 11-15, 2003
Women's Business Center
"Writing and Editing for the Web-Make the transition from print to web"
A special workshop based on my full two-day course.
Washington DC
May, 2003
2002
APPA-American
Public Power Association
Nov.2, 2002
Colorado Springs
Workshop and demo at annual conference.
American
Medical Writers Association
Oct.5, 2002
Annual Meeting, Washington DC
National
Association of Science Writers Conference
Feb.13, 2002
Boston, Mass.
"Bypassing the Media" — Panelist
, NASW Professional workshop
PBS/NPR
Interactive Summit
Feb.21-23, 2002
Baltimore, MD
"Write This Way: Bringing Clarity
to Complex Subjects"
Speakers:
Bill Mitchell, Online Editor/Marketing Director, Poynter Institute
Merry Bruns, Content Strategist and Web Writing trainer, ScienceSites
Communications
Sreenath Sreenivassan, Journalism Professor, Columbia University
Women's Business Center
April 2002
Washington DC
"Writing and Editing for the Web"
Speaker/demo. (2000, 2001, 2002)
ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors)
April 2002-New York City , 2002 Annual Writers Conference.
"Transitioning from Print to Web" -
Speaker/demo.
(2001, 2002)
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Annual Conference, December, 2000. Washington DC.
"Communicating Our Message on the Web" -
Speaker/Demo
National Association of Counties (NAACO).
(National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO).
Annual Meeting, Dec.2001
Speaker/Demo
Web Demo workshops 1996-1998
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
NIH—"Reaching Our Audience on the Web"
• American Press Institute Media Center, Washington
DC—"Developing a Grammar for New Media"
• NIH Web Authors Group, Bethesda, Md.—"Reaching
Our Audience on the Web"
• DC Science Writers Association (various topics)
• DC Webgrrls/DC Web Women (various topics)
• National Association of Science Writers (NASW)-numerous
panels and workshops:
- • Communicating Anthropology on the Internet
- • Creating Web Sites for Science Writers
- • Science Writing: Basic Internet Research
- • Multi-Media Science Writing
1995 - 1996 WEB
POSITIONS
PROXICOM, INC.
Producer for premier Internet business solutions company (department
closed 2002).
• Clients include: Norwegian Cruise Line
• Volunteers of America
• National Assembly
HUBNET
-Texas Internet Access
Producer/Marketing
• Clients include: Lubbock Symphony Orchestra
• George Washington Univ. Medical Center
Director - The
CENTER for ANTHROPOLOGY and SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS
• Workshops and sessions for anthropologists and science media.
• Anthropology communications resource web site.
• Research on science media and anthropology communications.
• Yearly workshops
and academic
sessions on communicating
anthropology to the public,
and working with mass media.
Events held at AAA-American
Anthropological Association
annual conferences.
Society
for Applied Anthrropology
Annual Meeting
Santa Fe,
NM
April 2005
Invited session panelist-"Anthropologists
as Public Communicators"
"Communicating the Frontiers of Science to the Public"
16th INQUA Congress
Reno, Nevada, July 2003
Speaker.
"Relocating Ethnography: Theory, Practice, Use"
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 5-7 2002.
Speaker. "Speaking with the Sources: Anthropologists and Science
Media"
"Media Anthropology" Seminar,
University of Hamburg
Seminar instructor - September 1999.
Anthropology Communications training and workshop at a seminar being
hosted by the University of Hamburg, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.
HUNTER COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK
1985-1992
• MA Candidate, Anthropology/Archeology.
• U.S. and British fieldwork
• Historic Archeology; British prehistory.
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY (Lubbock, Texas)
1994-96
• Graduate work, Mass Communications Program.
• Online Journalism/Public Relations track.
FINCH COLLEGE (New York City)
1969-1973
• Bachelor of Science Degree, Art
• Associate Degree, Art
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Board member:
• DC Science Writers Association (DCSWA)
• Tony Powell Dance Company
• DCWeb Women (DCWW)
- Program Committee Co-Chair
• New Media Society of DC (Past Board member)
Member
• National Press Club
• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Society for American Archeology
• DC Science Writers Association (Board member)
• National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
• DC Web Women (Executive Advisory Board member)
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