Glen Farrelly

Current

• Blogger at Backbone Magazine

Past

• Web Producer at Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan
• Website Volunteer at Heritage Toronto
• Product Manager at Rogers - Quicken.ca, MoneySense.ca

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Education

• Royal Roads University
• University of Toronto
• Humber College

2 more...

Recommended

8 people have recommended Glen

Connections

134 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• Delicious Bookmarks
• Twitter

Glen Farrelly’s Summary

My experience in the Internet has covered the full spectrum from coding to content and from planning to promotion. In addition, I have advanced education on the Internet from a communications, development, and business perspective. This gives me a unique ability to help direct a company’s online strategy and provide effective critique of their online efforts.

Glen Farrelly’s Specialties:

• Website usability, accessibility, and user-centered design
• Participatory culture online, with a focus on factors encouraging social media and user-generated content
• Internet development, history, and policy

Glen Farrelly’s Experience

• Blogger

  Backbone Magazine

  (Publishing industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

  http://www.backbonemag.com/Bloggers/Glen_Farrelly.asp
  
  Author regular posts on Internet trends, best practices, and theoretical underpinnings, with focus on Canadian context

Additional Information

Glen Farrelly’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Delicious Bookmarks
• Twitter

Glen Farrelly’s Interests:

the Internet, local history, travelling, blogging, photography, architecture

Glen Farrelly’s Groups:

Association of Internet Researchers, Internet Society, CIRA, Association of Internet Marketing & Sales (AIMS), LinkedInnovators, Heritage Toronto

•    Internet Society
•    York University Alumni
•    WSG
•    eSSENTIAL Accessibility
•    Royal Roads University
•    Rogers New Media / Rogers iMedia Alumni
•    Linked IGF
•    Association of Internet Researchers
•    University of Toronto Faculty of Information - PhD Students and Alumni

Glen Farrelly’s Honors:

Received a SSHRC research grant (2008 - 2009) to study website accessibility.

Apex Award of Excellence for website (2008) and Apex Award of Excellence for online annual report (2008)