Josh Shear

Current

• Board Advisor at CNY SPaRC
• Member at 40 Below Civic Engagement Task Force
• Project Coordinator at syracuse.com

• Freelancer at Josh Shear / Freelance work

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Past

• Various at Syracuse University
• Editor at Reminder Publications

Education

• Syracuse University
• Western New England College

Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Josh Shear’s Summary

My goal is to utilize social media, Web 2.0, and traditional media platforms to educate the public about politics, media behavior, volunteerism, and other topics that fall into -- and outside of -- the realm of traditional reportage.

Josh Shear’s Specialties:

Research-style statistics, Web analytics, CSS, HTML, various software and social media platforms.

Josh Shear’s Experience

• Board Advisor

  CNY SPaRC

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• Member

  40 Below Civic Engagement Task Force

  (Online Media industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• Project Coordinator

  syracuse.com

  (Online Media industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist for newspaper-affiliated news, sports and entertainment website
  - Site expert in social media platforms, including overseeing Twitter and Digg presence as well as assisting with Facebook and Reddit presence. Duties also include exploring new media trends and new social tools
  - Local technical expert and site liaison for newspaper and corporate project manager for extensive company-wide high school sports database platform rollout, including continued support
  - Local technical expert and site co-liaison for extensive company-wide content management system rollout, including continued support
  - Content updates, including blogging, multimedia production, and creating and/or optimizing potentially viral articles

• Freelancer

  Josh Shear / Freelance work

  (Online Media industry)

  June 1998 — Present (11 years 6 months)

  - Personal blog and blog partnerships (JoshShear.com and HubPages.com)
  - Content writer at Demand Studios
  - Web design, including HTML and CSS, Blogger and WordPress
  - Copy editing, with a dual focus on academic research by non-native English speakers and web content

• Various

  Syracuse University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 2003 — September 2005 (2 years )

  • Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, Whitman School of Management: Web site maintenance and creation, minor technical support, computer support at conferences.
  • Military Visual Journalism Program, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications: Teaching assistant, classes in Interactive Project Development (HTML, Flash, Director)
  • Center for Digital Literacy, joint program of S.I. Newhouse School for Public Communications, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy, and School of Information Studies: Grant writing, planning and leading 2004 Summer Institute on the Internet and Democracy.

• Editor

  Reminder Publications

  (Newspapers industry)

  September 2000 — August 2003 (3 years )

  • Family-owned publishing group printing a series of non-daily newspapers.
  • Editor, The Journal/Bravo: Overseeing bi-weekly arts publication, responsible for filling news hole, assigning and editing freelance stories within a budget. Writing ~100 column inches per issue, plus photos. Laying out publication in Quark XPress.
  • Staff writer, The Chicopee Herald, The Reminder, The Reminder MetroWest, all newsweeklies. Responsible for producing ~200 column inches of editorial copy, plus photos, per week, with some stories running in multiple publications. Beats included the towns of Granby, South Hadley, Holyoke and Chicopee, Mass., bike paths, local music scene, combined sewer overflows. Some stories were also versioned for Prime, a monthly magazine geared at readers 50-plus.

Josh Shear’s Education

• Syracuse University

  MA , Media Studies , 2003 — 2005

  See work done for the University under Work. Two conference papers; one sole authored, another first author.

• Western New England College

  BA , English/Communications , 1998 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  - Co-editor, student newspaper, The Westerner

Additional Information

Josh Shear’s Interests:

Sustainable workforces, government, transportation and living; photography; recreational sports; volunteerism

Josh Shear’s Groups:

• CNY SPaRC: Board advisor: Marketing coordinator, January 2008-present. The Syracuse Professional and Recreation Club brings together young professionals (median age ~35) together for social, networking, sporting and volunteer events.
• 40 Below Civic Engagement Task Force: Active on the Civic Engagement task force. 40 Below targets young professionals with an eye toward maintaining the population in and helping them improve Central New York.

•    ThoseinMedia
•    Designers Talk
•    Upstate Design Collective
•    SYRACUSE FIRST
•    CNY 40 Under 40 Winners

Josh Shear’s Honors:

• 40 Under 40 recipient, 2008: 40 Under 40 honors young professionals who have a great impact on their communities.

Josh Shear’s Contact Settings

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