Information Technology and Services Consultant and Contractor; sole proprietor New Local Media
Greater Milwaukee Area
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- Owner at New Local Media (Sole Proprietorship)
- Dad to Anneke, Claire, Maddie, and Kate at Knauss Family, LLP
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- Director, Shareholder at Riverwest Investment Co-operative, Member-Owned, Inc.
- Director / Co-Founder at Pantagruel Press, Inc.
- Instructor / Research Assistant at Marquette University
- Director, Shareholder, Writer, Web Designer at Currents, Inc.
- Instructor at University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Instructor / Teaching Staff at North Carolina State University
- Adjunct Instructor at Campbell University
- Education
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- Marquette University
- North Carolina State University
- University of Oxford
- Campbell University
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Dan Knauss’s Summary
Web designer, developer, and consultant with extensive experience installing and customizing Open Source web-based software, primarily Content Managment Systems and social media tailored to clients' needs.
I can help individuals, small businesses, and non-governmental organizations that want full control over their own web presence or less technically involved hosted solutions. I can advise clients on hosting providers and packages, including green hosting.
Related services: search engine optimization (SEO), research, training for effective use of software systems, writing, editing, media/constituent relations.
I am especially interested in projects that contribute to and take advantage of the emerging hyperlocal web for practical complements to daily and public life as traditional print-bound newspaper journalism dies. E.g., placeblogging and social media/social publishing and small business/local commerce can be mutually supportive, and citizen journalism can help monitor the public record, bring it into the public interest, and contribute to the shaping of public discourse.
Dan Knauss’s Specialties:
Web development, web design, web publishing, Open Source software; PHP/mySQL-based Content Management Systems; Mambo and Joomla CMS; HTML/CSS; writing; editing; communications; media / constituent / public relations; political campaigns; web 2.0; social media; hyperlocal, journalism
Dan Knauss’s Experience
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Owner
New Local Media (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — Present (6 years 1 month)
Web design and IT specializing in the needs of small businesses, organizations, and political campaigns with a local focus. Consulting, website design, content management. Open Source web-based and database-driven applications.
Speciality Areas: Small business, non-profit, and community organization website design. Open Source, web-based, front and back office applications, Content Management Systems. -
Dad to Anneke, Claire, Maddie, and Kate
Knauss Family, LLP
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; KNA; Human Resources industry)
January 1998 — Present (10 years 10 months)
You get the idea.
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Director, Shareholder
Riverwest Investment Co-operative, Member-Owned, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
August 2003 — September 2007 (4 years 2 months)
I spent several years developing and maintaining RIC's website as a paid and later voluntary service. I was secretary on board of directors and a member of the finance and marketing committees at different points for about 2 years. I also managed an 8-unit apartment building for RIC.
RIC is a small, neighborhood-based housing investment and rehab/redevelopment cooperative focused on increasing owner-occupancy and building a stable, diverse, and vibrant community in Milwaukee's Riverwest and Harambee neighborhoods. -
Director / Co-Founder
Pantagruel Press, Inc.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
August 2004 — July 2006 (2 years)
Associate editor & design editor, full technical and design responsibility for nationally renown online journal/magazine which has now passed into the dustbin of history.
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Instructor / Research Assistant
Marquette University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
August 1999 — August 2004 (5 years 1 month)
Rhetoric--Writing/Speaking instructor
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Director, Shareholder, Writer, Web Designer
Currents, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
August 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 1 month)
I was on the founding board of directors and did the original web design/ development for Riverwest Currents, a monthly newspaper in Milwaukee. I also did some writing and editing for the print and online versions. In September 2007 I rebuilt the Currents' website. I was not responsible for its appearance or functionality from 2004 until that time and after March 2008.
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Instructor
University of Wisconsin at Madison
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)
August 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Taught rhetoric/writing/speaking
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Instructor / Teaching Staff
North Carolina State University
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)
August 1995 — May 1998 (2 years 10 months)
graduate teaching assistant in writing, rhetoric
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Adjunct Instructor
Campbell University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)
August 1997 — May 1998 (10 months)
Taught first year writing/rhetoric and literature classes.
Dan Knauss’s Education
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Marquette University
PhD/ABD, English, 1998 — 2004
I taught first-year courses in writing/speaking/rhetoric as a teaching assistant and worked for faculty members as a research assistant. The latter involved--aside from research--some conference organizing and website development.
My own area of study was early modern Europe, specifically British literature of the medieval and Renaissance/Reformation periods. I also took special courses in history and historical theology outside my department and in seminars at UW-Madison, Penn State and the Newberry Library. Most of these other courses were geared toward or allowed me to concentrate on bibliography, textual scholarship, micro-history, material and cultural history, the development of and shift from manuscript to print culture, the history of the book, the history and psycho-social impact of literacy and reading.- Activities and Societies:
- Alpha Sigma Nu, Arthur J. Schmitt Fellow, Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS), Graduate Student Organization (GSO), Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC)
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North Carolina State University
MA, English, 1995 — 1998
Continued medieval and renaissance study focus for MA coursework, thesis. NCSU's ample SparcStation's and networked PC/MAC labs motivated me to start messing with UNIX and HTML.
- Activities and Societies:
- Teaching Assistantship
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University of Oxford
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1995 — 1995
Good times. Met woman from Iowa here and later married her.
- Activities and Societies:
- CMRS, Keble College
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Campbell University
BA, English, History, 1991 — 1995
A thoroughly classical education during the infancy of the public www. Started doing online research at this time when academic and library facilities started delivering online and digital content/access.
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Tau Delta, Lyricist, Army ROTC, Ranger Challenge team (2 years; qualified for full scholarship that would have resulted in military commission but, perhaps fortuitously, the Army didn't like my feet. Great and unique experience with classmates who were mostly prior service NCOs from Ft. Bragg--airborne, rangers, special forces personnel.)
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Dan Knauss’s Interests:
Aesthetics/beauty and their general neglect by most people and institutions. Positive/negative individual and social effects of technology or its applications. The living and dying of cities/neighborhoods/civilizations. Organization, meritorious and competent labor. Choral music. The Good Life. Meaningfulness amid the prevalence of plastic. Self-deception versus truth--and their consequences. Human depravity. The devil of good intentions. Vernacular values. Deschooling. Children, eccentrics, mavericks, misfits. Commitments and roots. Redeeming the better spirits and legacies of an America increasingly afflicted by apathy / ignorance / waste / low standards / non-integrity / mental incoherence / individual isolation. Human motivations. People and how they cope with / enjoy / deny their awareness of their mortality in the face of increasing age / personal trauma / the absurdity of the modern world / the immensity of existence and the beauty of the insignificant.
Dan Knauss’s Groups:
The Mambo Foundation, Web414, BarCampMilwaukee, Riverwest Grocery Cooperative and Cafe, The New Pantagruel, Riverwesters for Progressive Growth, St. Marcus Community Council, Alpha Sigma Nu, Sigma Tau Delta, Riverwest Neighborhood Association, Brewers Hill Neighborhood Association, Historic First Street Ad Hoc Committee, Riverwest Investment Cooperative, GLUE, Riverwest Neighborhood Network
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CreamCitizen
Dan Knauss’s Honors:
Arthur J. Schmitt Fellow, Marquette University
President's List, Campbell University
Dean's List, Campbell University
Twice recipient of the Byrd Creative Writing Scholarship, Campbell University
Presidential Scholar, Campbell University
McNair Scholarship, Campbell University
Eakes Scholarship, Campbell University
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