Community Manager: Mahalo Greenhouse; Author, Editor, Podcaster, DIY Advocate.
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Community Manager at Mahalo.com Inc.
- Producer / Host at Writers Talking (Sole Proprietorship)
- Voice Actor at Escape Artists
- Author at Brave Men Run - A Novel Of The Sovereign Era (Self-employed)
- Producer / Host at DIY Endeavors Podcast (Self-employed)
- Founder at MWS Media
- Past
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- Consultant at Gerber & Company CPAs
- Title Manager at Podiobooks.com
- Producer / Host at Five Minute Memoir (Sole Proprietorship)
- Manager at Borders, Inc.
- Education
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- Capistrano Valley High School
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Matthew Selznick’s Summary
Since 1985, I have actively supported and evangelized the DIY (do it yourself) ethic for independent creative endeavors. My company, MWS Media, is driven by the principle that doing it yourself should never mean going it alone.
My personal and professional activities are driven by the principles of the DIY ethic:
* Purity of vision - Create the art you want, how you want. Place an emphasis on the quality of the content over flashy, polished presentation and packaging.
* Principled expression - Never abandon your personal principles for exposure or fortune. It is better to reach a smaller audience than turn your back on your beliefs.
* Self-education - Teach yourself, and never stop learning. Build on what has come before.
* All art is valid - Everyone is creative. In this information age, there is an audience for everything, and that audience is the most important arbiter of value in art.
* We are all peers - You are no better than your audience or your colleagues. There is no celebrity in DIY. The people enjoying your creativity are often creators themselves.
* Trust your audience - Ask for and accept their support. Reject the temptation to restrict their access to your creativity, and never break your covenant with them.
* Serve the community - Doing it yourself should never mean going it alone. Make mentoring, service, and giving back a major component of your approach to creativity.
I am available to speak on the following subjects:
* the DIY (do-it-yourself) ethic
* podcasting and citizen media
* self-publishing
* alternative distribution and marketing with new media
Matthew Selznick’s Specialties:
Podcasting, new media, WordPress, writing, fiction and non-fiction editing, story diagnosis and coaching, web design, podcast hosting and production, blogging, DIY advocacy, new media consultation, music composition, group training, retail management
Matthew Selznick’s Experience
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Community Manager
Mahalo.com Inc.
(Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
At Mahalo.com, a human-curated search site, I recruit, manage, and help train a world-wide pool of over three thousand remote contract freelancers in the Mahalo Greenhouse. Additionally, I contribute directly to the vision and direction of Mahalo.com, write documentation for end-users and freelancers, and watch the social media space for activity relevant to the curated search space.
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Producer / Host
Writers Talking (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Writers Talking is a live, roundtable podcast featuring independent and small press authors talking shop and answering listener questions. Every episode, host Matthew Wayne Selznick and a small panel have a conversation about a specific aspect of the writing life and craft. http://www.writerstalking.com
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Voice Actor
Escape Artists
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Provide voice performance (dramatic reading) for short stories distributed via podcast for the online periodicals Escape Pod (http://www.escapepod.org) and Pseudopod (http://www.pseudopod.org.)
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Author
Brave Men Run - A Novel Of The Sovereign Era (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years)
Fans of Ultimate Spider-Man, silver age comics, and alternate history will enjoy this prose novel of teen angst and metahumans! Brave Men Run is a coming of age story set in an alternate 1980's, where people with amazing talents and abilities suddenly make themselves known. Can young Nathan Charters find himself in this uncertain new world? Who is he, where did he come from, and is he part of a remarkable new minority... or just a misfit among misfits? From Matthew Wayne Selznick, founder of MWS Media, host of the DIY Endeavors podcast, and creator of the Sovereign Serials webzine, comes the first novel of the Sovereign Era.
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Producer / Host
DIY Endeavors Podcast (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years)
A podcast featuring the finest DIY, independent music from all over the world. One of the earliest music podcasts, and the first to focus exclusively on independent music.
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Founder
MWS Media
(Performing Arts industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 9 months)
MWS Media is committed to the DIY (do it yourself) ethic. We believe doing it yourself should never mean going it alone.
Through MWS Media, I provide podcast and new media consulting, editing and critique services for independent creative people, and WordPress site development.
MWS Media also represents my creative endeavors, including creative writing, podcasting and new media production and music composition and performance. -
Consultant
Gerber & Company CPAs
(Privately Held; Accounting industry)
June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Consultation on podcasting, new media, and Internet issues. Design and implementation of http://podcast.gerberco.com.
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Title Manager
Podiobooks.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
-- uploading and updating content to Podiobooks.com, the original source for audio books presented in podcast form.
-- customer and author relations
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Producer / Host
Five Minute Memoir (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)
Five Minute Memoir is a podcast from MWS Media. Listeners contribute their stories, anecdotes, formative memories, and confessions to create a mosaic of human experience. It's our lives, five minutes at a time.
Five Minute Memoir:
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Manager
Borders, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BGP; Retail industry)
September 1995 — November 2005 (10 years 3 months)
Operations manager for an 8.3 million dollar / year Borders Books & Music retail location. Also held management positions in human resources, inventory, loss prevention, and event coordination.
Matthew Selznick’s Education
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Capistrano Valley High School
High School Diploma, 1981 — 1985
- Activities and Societies:
- Editor and contributor to Paw Prints newspaper during Junior and Senior years
Additional Information
Matthew Selznick’s Websites:
Matthew Selznick’s Interests:
Writing, new media, reasonable and fair intellectual property standards, changing paradigms in entertainment distribution, DIY ethics and standards.
Matthew Selznick’s Groups:
The Podosphere!
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Podcasting Technology Resource Group
Matthew Selznick’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
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