Chris Boese

Current

• Information Architect at Razorfish

Past

• Functional Analyst at Avenue A | Razorfish
• Writer at CNN Headline News
• T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor at School of Journalism, University of Montana

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Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

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Recommended

7 people have recommended Chris

Connections

387 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Chris Boese’s Summary

Proven interactive media production and marketing skills honed since the birth of the Web in 1993.

Published Web 2.0 research into social media and the grassroots citizen media movement.

User experience design and planning skills: wireframing, storyboarding, prototyping, usability testing and research analysis.

Functional/business analysis and technical documentation skills, with hyperlinked wiki documentation.

Experienced blog designer, author, and community manager. Serendipit-e.com domain includes about 35 individual and group blogs (12 are personal publishing projects).

Advanced writing and speaking skills: published in short and long form media genres, technical writing, journalism, PR, and blogs, as well as literary and scholarly journals.

Chris Boese’s Specialties:

Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic in interaction design, HCI & technical communication.

New Media creator, researcher, social critic, and futurist studying Web 2.0 technology, social media, cybercultures, and online communities.

Award-winning teacher, trainer and public speaker applying innovative tools and approaches to computer-assisted learning since 1990.

Published and award-winning photographer, poet, fiction & literary non-fiction writer, and journalist.

Additional Information

Chris Boese’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Chris Boese’s Interests:

TECHNICAL SKILLS CSS/HTML/XML All Major Blog Platforms InDesign/Dreamweaver Quark/Framemaker Photoshop/Illustrator/Visio Flash/Director Avid iNews/Final Draft Basic knowledge: UNIX/PHP/MySQL

Chris Boese’s Honors:

2005 DuPont-Columbia University Award - for coverage of South Asia Tsunami Disaster

2005 Peabody Award - Significant and Meritorious Achievement in Broadcasting and Cable for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and aftermath

Sponsored Research Grant: Directed Clemson University Public Service Activities Interactive Services Studio: 1998-2001.

Collaborative Learning Environment Faculty Fellow, Clemson University Summer 1999.

Service Learning Fellowship, Clemson University Fall 1999.

Rensselaer Founders' Award 1998 (highest award at RPI). Master Teaching Fellow, Rensselaer 1995-96.

Macromedia Director Poetry, Animation & Photography Projects won McKinney creative writing awards at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1994-97.

Award of Achievement, Society for Technical Communication 1996: Lighting Research Center Partner's Day Posters.

Runner-up Lily Peter Fellowship, Poetry;
M. Blair Hart award for creative non-fiction, University of Arkansas 1988.