Nadia Aly

Current

Online Community Manager at Microsoft
Social Media Consultant at Projectline
Founder at s0cialmedia.com

Founder at PeopleVancouver.com
Owner at The People Networks (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Solutions/Social Media/ Online Community Implementation: Project BlueSky at Tourism British Columbia
Director of Social Media at Great Northern Way Campus
Project Manager at Student Aid B.C.

Social Media Director at Mobile Muse

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Education

Great Northern Way - Masters Of Digital Media
University of Victoria

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Nadia Aly’s Summary

Nadia Aly is armed with a Masters of Digital Media. She is a social media guru who is constantly thinking of news ways to reach audiences, generate demand and create buzz using social media tools. What fascinates her most about this new digital frontier is its amazing potential to connect human beings from all aspects of life, and from different parts of the globe.—and she is very connected-

For the last 6 years while she worked her way through school, Nadia founded properties like PeopleVancouver.com, built widgets for BC Tourism , served as the Social Media aggregator for Mobile Muse and serves on the Board for Woodward’s Community Digital Media Centre (www.CreativeTechnology.org), a not- for- profit organization focused on equipping the underprivileged with technical skills --to name just a few of her endeavors.

Her Masters in Digital Media is from the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver BC. This program is a result of joint collaboration between University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr Institute and private industry sponsors.

She is currently working @ Microsoft as an Online Community Manager

Follow Nadia on Twitter : @digitalkvan

Nadia Aly’s Specialties:

Negotiation, Pitching, Video Editing, Web Design, Graphic Design, Online Communities design and Structure, Social Media Marketing, Online Marketing

Nadia Aly’s Experience

Online Community Manager

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

Works on numerous online/social projects at Microsoft
Social Media Consultant

Projectline

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

Social Media Consultant
Founder

s0cialmedia.com

(Internet industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Founder

PeopleVancouver.com

(Internet industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Owner
The People Networks (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

The People Networks is a company that holds many online communities directed at Regional Communities throughout Canada.
Solutions/Social Media/ Online Community Implementation: Project BlueSky

Tourism British Columbia

(Government Agency; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

February 2009 — May 2009 (4 months)

Developed widgets that work with a database tracking users’ carbon reduction efforts. The data is aggregated to a master widget showing the progress of all users. Another widget tracks personal contributions of each user. These widgets can be embedded in many places online. Along with the widgets, we created an online community that acts as the main portal for this project and on which users can add photos, videos, blogs and much more.
Director of Social Media

Great Northern Way Campus

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Implemented social media, generated content, set up an SEO program, and instituted new ways to advertise online.
Project Manager

Student Aid B.C.

(Education Management industry)

September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)

Created three “How To” videos using Second Life ( a virtual world accessible by its “residents” to explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world). The videos were on personal development (“Agile Development”), workflow management (“Pipeline Management”), and communicating with clients (“Client Communications”).
Social Media Director

Mobile Muse

(Wireless industry)

April 2008 — September 2008 (6 months)

Internship

Nadia Aly’s Education

Great Northern Way - Masters Of Digital Media

Masters , Digital Media , 2007 — 2009

This is an innovative full time professional graduate degree program offering students team-based experiences focused on project learning in close collaboration with the international games and digital media industry. Graduates develop the professional skills required to be effective creators, practitioners, and senior managers in this rapidly growing industry.

The program is taught by award winning faculty who are experts in their fields. Their colleagues on the MDM Advisory Board, Program Committee and within the Faculty Affiliate Program are world-class educators, respected visionaries and leaders in the digital media industry. The comprehensive and challenging curriculum was designed with input from academia as well as industry to ensure relevancy in today's marketplace.

We are armed with a powerhouse master's level degree bearing the seals of Canada's premier post-secondary institutions and a portfolio of work created under the close mentorship and guidance of MDM's faculty.
University of Victoria

BFA , Visual Arts , 2003 — 2007

Intensive studio experience:
At both the undergraduate and graduate levels an intensive studio experience in a critical setting defines our program. We emphasize fine art practice rather than applied art or craft training. A visiting artist lecture series enriches our program.
Areas of discipline include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital media and video. Students may graduate with a BFA, BSC, or MFA.

Professional artists, curators, critics:
Graduates become professional artists, curators, critics, as well as professionals in fields which require creative approaches and critical thought such as the film industry, computer animation, software design and industrial design.

Exhibit and curate:
Students exhibit and curate in the department's gallery as well as in self-initiated sites in downtown Victoria. In its senior-level courses, the program encourages multi-disciplinary and self-directed studies under the guidance of our professional faculty.

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Nadia Aly’s Interests:

new technology, online communities, widgets, online media sharing, mobile media sharing, web design, online community design, photography, video editing, photoshop, flash...