Author, Information Architect, Social Networking Expert, Software Developer... Everything but a plumber, honestly.
Greater Atlanta Area
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- Information Architect & Social Networking / Social Media Subject Matter Expert at Manheim
- Freelance Writer / Graphic Designer / Consultant / Everything-but-Plumber at This Is Not Art! Productions
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Joe Peacock’s Summary
Ex-Software-Engineer turned User-Experience-focused-Information-Architect turned writer, who started with nothing but an old domain name and a desire to tell a story.
I've been called upon by Cox Communications, AT&T/Cingular Wireless/Bellsouth, Fox News, CNN, Fark.com, Victoria's Secret, and over fifty other companies to guide them through the muck and mire of User Experience development to a place where they can be happy.
With the recent interest in "Social Networking" (not social networking, which is basically shaking hands, but "Social Networking" as it pertains to using expensive AJAX tricks to entice people to grow their "friend" presence on the net), I've been consulting with companies interested in harnessing this very human desire for people to get to know one another, both internally within the enterprise and outwardly toward their customer community. And unlike others professing to know a little something about this, I don't waste my clients' money. I won't go bandying about with terms like "blog" and "wiki" and "AJAX" and pretend that installing some gradient-laden toolsets will solve your needs. I actually find ways to make the concepts useful for your goals.
I've also written nearly three hundred magazine articles, three books (new one coming Fall 09 from Penguin Books), two hundred short stories, 40 short-form sketch comedy shows for Turner Broadcasting, and this bio. I also wash my own car.
If I sound like someone you'd like to work with, feel free to email me. If I don't, well... I don't want to work with you, either, so poo on you. And if you're wondering -- no, I'm actually a lot more brash and up-front in person than this write-up indicates, but it seems to work for me. Don't expect buzzwords and sucking-up, if your ideas suck, they suck, and I'd rather save you billable hours letting you know up front than save your ego and steal from you. Call it a character flaw.
Joe Peacock’s Specialties:
I don't sleep. Instead, I read, write, experiment, learn, write, and read - in that order. I don't stop working until a job is done, I don't give up until "hard" becomes "easy" and I never, ever go to bed before a problem has found its solution. It's not that I'm some sort of cybernetic dynamo who tirelessly peruses his goals, I've just got some sort of disorder that won't let me quit thinking about something until there's nothing left to think about it.
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