Laura Hale

Current

Sysop at AboutUs
Founder at Fan History LLC

Past

wiki contributor at wikiHow
Consultant at FanLib/Take 180 Studios
English teacher at Tinian Junior Senior High School

Instructional Media Aide at CUSD 300
Internship in Instructional Technology at British International School, Bratislava
Assistant general manager at WKDI

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Education

Elgin Community College
George Mason University
Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University

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Connections

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Industry

Entertainment

Websites

Laura Hale’s Summary

Founder of Fan History, http://www.fanhistory.com/ .

Laura Hale’s Specialties:

research, fandom, entertainment, fan fiction, social media, web 2.0, wikis, market research, search engine optimization

Laura Hale’s Experience

Sysop

AboutUs

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Volunteer Sysop at AboutUs. Primarily dedicated to providing chat room support, assisting with ProFollowing, advising people on how to use AboutUs and other sites to market their sites, and help contributors who want to improve articles about their sites.
Founder

Fan History LLC

(Entertainment industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Fandom Research / Reputation Management
* Wrote white paper examining the relationship between fan fiction posting volume and Nielsen Ratings.
* Documented the history of fan communities across fandom including different social networks, cliques, relationship pairings, fansites, television shows, music groups.
* Generated data sets for activities taking place in the fan community.

Wikis
* Created organizational principles for a wiki with over 800,000 articles.
* Advised other wikis on how to do Search Engine Optimization and use social media to increase the number of contributors.

Social Media / Community Outreach
* Implemented Twitter and Identi.ca strategy to increase Fan History’s visibility.
* Contacted members of the fan community on blogs, LiveJournal, Quizilla, FanFiction.Net, Xanga, orkut, bebo, MySpace, FaceBook, Yahoo!Groups to ask them how we can better help serve the fan community and to solicit their help in improving content on Fan History in order to work on Fan History’s mission of documenting the history of fandom.
* Reached out to the fan wiki community to inform them about events going on that would be of interest to them and solicit their help with Fan History.
* Used Yahoo!Answers as part of being a good neighbour, increase our visibility, develop good will towards Fan History.
* Created a blog which offers advice to the fan community on how to increase traffic to sites, provide news about what may impact their fannish experience, report on fandom news and inform members of Fan History’s community about plans for the site.

Search Engine Optimisation

* Implemented link building plan for Fan History Wiki increased traffic from 600 search engine related visits a day to 1,700 to the site in the period between June 2008 and February 2009.
* Targeted for specific keywords on Fan History when fandom news broke which resulted in increase in traffic to those pages.
* Implemented plan to improve content to increase traffic.
wiki contributor

wikiHow

(Entertainment industry)

2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
Consultant

FanLib/Take 180 Studios

(Entertainment industry)

June 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 1 month)
English teacher

Tinian Junior Senior High School

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

January 2006 — April 2006 (4 months)

Taught high school English on the small Pacific island of Tinian. I had grades 9, 11, 12. The school was designated ESL by the US government.
Instructional Media Aide

CUSD 300

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

October 2001 — January 2005 (3 years 4 months)

Worked in the library, in computer labs and helped out with curriculum support. Did a number of tasks: Created a curriculum for fifth grade students. Created an instructional manual for teachers on how to use technology and information. Created educational materials for students and staff. Trained teachers in the use of technology. Assisted in teaching lessons in the computer lab. Assisted teachers in finding computer based curriculum materials.
Internship in Instructional Technology

British International School, Bratislava

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

September 2004 — December 2004 (4 months)

Completed an internship here as part of my MSEd coursework. Tasks I completed as part of this internship included: Trained staff in the use of computer applications. Assisted teachers in planning ICT lessons. Created materials to support the existing curriculum. Acted in a support role during teacher led lessons in the computer lab.
Assistant general manager

WKDI

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

December 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 1 month)

WKDI was a student radio station at Northern Illinois University. During this period, served in a number of positions besides this one including assistant music director and disc jockey.

Laura Hale’s Education

Elgin Community College

General studies 1994 — 2007

Earned 40 credits taking classes of interest and for classes that counted towards my Bachelors degree at NIU.
George Mason University

Education 2005 — 2005

Teaching Elementary Social Studies, 3 credit class. After gaining a job, left the program.
Northern Illinois University

MSEd , Instructional Technology , 2002 — 2005
Northern Illinois University

BGS , General Studies , 1998 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

WKDI (student radio)

Additional Information

Laura Hale’s Websites:

Laura Hale’s Interests:

instructional technology, on-line education, constructivism, marketing, fandom, fan fiction, travel, history, social media

Laura Hale’s Groups:

On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
TV News
ThoseinMedia
Animation, Media & Entertainment
Film and Television Professionals
Digital Marketing
Baseball - Let's Play Ball!
Social Media Marketing
Media Professionals Worldwide
Community 2.0
Market Research Professionals
TV Researchers
Television Broadcast Technologies
Marketing & Communication Network
MediaWiki Users
Ypulse Networking For Youth Media & Marketing Professionals
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Online Community Manager
Star Trek Fandom
Market Research Field Directors/Field Management Pros/Data Collection Vets/On-line & Off-line
Market Research Bulletin
Geeks Who Care
WikiFur
SEO Jobs
mediawiki corporate
Job Openings, Job Leads and Job Connections!
WKDI Alumni
TWILIGHTERSANONYMOUS.COM
Media and Entertainment: Networking, Forum and Jobs