
Conversation Starter, Local & Global Community Organizer, Change Catalyst
Greater New York City Area

Conversation Starter, Local & Global Community Organizer, Change Catalyst
Greater New York City Area
Seeking opportunities to help strategize and join initiatives working to engage & connect communities & organizations for real world change.
Interested in resource sharing, organizing communities & networks, on-the-ground impact, collaboration between nonprofits & social change orgs, and new media adventures.
Expertise in community building, nonprofit social media strategy & hands-on execution, project management, event organizing, blogging, marketing & and online outreach.
I chose "Animation" for Industry because I help light projects up. Looking forward to learning more about yours!
social media, collaboration, event planning, blogging & micro-blogging, social networks, community building, RSS, HTML, branding, user-interface, workshops & facilitation, project management, presentations, community engagement strategies
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Connecting & engaging communities for global & local change - using the web & social media
Past clients:
MakeGood.com, Strayform.com, StuckinBed.org, Vassar College
Past Presentations & Panels: Vancouver Bar Camp, Interesting Vancouver, NorthWestMozDev, Third Tuesday, Net Tuesday, NTEN
Upcoming: SXSW, SchipulCon, Social Media Club
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Started and organized first 8 Net Tuesday events in Vancouver. Now support.
Helped jump-start Seattle Net Tuesdays.
Now assist in connecting and work on resource sharing for Net Tuesday organizers around the world.
(Philanthropy industry)
October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)
Facilitated global social innovation campaign with 10k in prize money Built & coordinated partnerships - Mashable, WordPress, Mozilla, NTEN, etc. Events in UK, Austin, LA, San Francisco. Fostered network of 100+ developers. 7 Live Chats w/featured guests. Trended on Twitter. 100+ Blog Posts. 35+ web applications built. 1,000s of social actions now exposed all over the web, everyday.
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)
Led development of "Social Actions Labs" - an experimental hub of web applications that draw on Social Actions API. Worked with Social Actions team to build and incubate first set of online tools. Also responsible for outreach and relationships with media and bloggers around Labs process and products.
(Online Media industry)
February 2008 — August 2008 (7 months)
Project manager for Knowmore.org Firefox Extension. International collaboration - developed for NetSquared N2Y3 Challenge. Won 2nd Place - $15,000.
20,000+ downloads - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7342
Also contributed to community strategy for Knowmore.org.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
August 2007 — October 2007 (3 months)
I assisted with site re-design and initiated blogger outreach and other social media campaigns.
(Internet industry)
January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)
Psych , 2000 — 2004
Wrote plays & sold books.
Web 2.0, social change, nonprofits, firefox extensions
Vancouver Net Tuesdays