Dan Knauss

Current

• Owner at New Local Media (Sole Proprietorship)
• Dad to Anneke, Claire, Maddie, and Kate at Knauss Family, LLP

Past

• Director, Shareholder at Riverwest Investment Co-operative, Member-Owned, Inc.
• Director / Co-Founder at Pantagruel Press, Inc.
• Director, Shareholder, Writer, Web Designer at Currents, Inc.

• Instructor / Research Assistant at Marquette University
• Instructor at University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Adjunct Instructor at Campbell University
• Instructor / Teaching Staff at North Carolina State University

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Education

• Marquette University
• North Carolina State University
• University of Oxford

• Campbell University

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Recommended

6 people have recommended Dan

Connections

189 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• New Local Media (My Company)
• Client and Project Portfolio
• Riverwest Neighborhood Network

Dan Knauss’s Summary

I build websites with open source applications as New Local Media (www.newlocalmedia.com).

I can help individuals, small to mid-sized businesses, and non-governmental organizations that want full control over their own web presence, brand, and voice while managing dependencies that add to long-term TCO. I can advise clients on hosting providers and packages, including green hosting, and hosted software solutions from content management and ecommerce to social media. I also do consulting and research in wide range of areas, including web development and IT, where a consistent value is helping uncover "unknown unknowns" impacting workflow efficiency, audience and marketing strategies, or the unexpected best fit software solution.

I am especially interested in projects that contribute to local and often urban communities; one way to do this now is by taking advantage of the emerging hyperlocal and "social web." I believe there is great value in this for people and organizations whose primary constituency is geographically defined.

Dan Knauss’s Specialties:

Web development, web design, web publishing, Open Source software; PHP/mySQL-based Content Management Systems; Joomla CMS; XHTML/CSS; writing; editing; communications; political campaigns; web 2.0; social media; hyperlocal, journalism; social publishing

Dan Knauss’s Experience

• Owner

  New Local Media (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

  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 (11 years 11 months)

  You get the idea.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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
  Faculty research assistant

• 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

• 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.

• 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

Dan Knauss’s Education

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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.)

Additional Information

Dan Knauss’s Websites:

• New Local Media (My Company)
• Client and Project Portfolio
• Riverwest Neighborhood Network

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:

Our Milwaukee, Web414, Milwaukee Joomla Users Group, BarCampMilwaukee, Riverwest Grocery Cooperative and Cafe, Riverwesters for Progressive Growth, Riverwest Neighborhood Association, Riverwest Investment Cooperative, Riverwest Neighborhood Network, Brewers Hill Neighborhood Association, Historic First Street Ad Hoc Committee, NinjaForge, The Mambo Foundation, Alpha Sigma Nu, Sigma Tau Delta

•    We Media
•    Tech Policy Summit
•    NetSquared
•    Sustainable Urban Development
•    Drupal
•    Gmail Users
•    Link Up Milwaukee
•    Open Source Universe
•    Joomla!
•    Joomla! Professional Users Group
•    Twitter
•    Web414
•    JoomedIn
•    CMS User Group
•    Social Media Marketing
•    Urban Planning Group
•    Community Builder
•    Social Media Mafia
•    Campbell University Alumni
•    Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE)
•    Joomla CMS
•    SilverStripe
•    Tweeple
•    Big Shoes Network
•    Tweeters
•    COMMON GROUND
•    Joomla Open Source Web Design
•    Drupal Community Network
•    Community Warehouse
•    Great Lakes Urban Empowerment ("GLUE")
•    Magento Users Group
•    Friends of The Gimp
•    GovLoop
•    CreamCitizen
•    Community-Management
•    Friends of Our Milwaukee
•    Milwaukee 7
•    The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)
•    The Daily Reporter
•    Design for Social Change
•    Wisconsin Geographic Information Coordination Council (WIGICC) WIGICC Stakeholder Network
•    Milwaukee 7 Water Council - World Water Hub
•    Milwaukee Area Joomla Users Group
•    City of Milwaukee
•    Timebank Affinity Group
•    NIMBY EXPERTS
•    Wisconsin Technology Network
•    PublicStuff
•    Local Search, Directories and Classifieds
•    Community PC Help

Dan Knauss’s Honors:

Arthur J. Schmitt Fellow, Marquette University

Undergraduate Stuff:
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

And indeed that vanity book of "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1995." Who buys these things? Who reads them? I did appreciate the nomination it involved from professors who put much time into my undergraduate education.

Dan Knauss’s Contact Settings

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