Oliver Gassner

Online Media Consultant and Professional

Stuttgart Area, Germany

Current
Past
  • Heavy User at The Internets
  • Speaker at Barcamp
  • Lehrer, Studienassessor at Land Baden-Württemberg (Kultusministerium)
  • Marketing Operations at DELOS AG
Education
  • Universität Konstanz
  • St. Olaf College
  • Hegau-Gymnasium, Singen am Hohentwiel
Connections
385 connections
Industry
Writing and Editing

Oliver Gassner’s Summary

Project Management (creating and maintaining websites, communities, online projects).

Education (English as a foreign language, Business English, creative writing for adults and students)

Talks/Workshops (Internet issues, freelancers, authors, networking, writeable web, weblogs, wikis)

Author (childrens books - also for marketing purposes, experimental literature, hyperfiction, poetry, short prose)

Oliver Gassner’s Specialties:

Writing for online and press (education, literature, culture, Intrenet [security, art], TV), concepts for online events or online presences, concepts and orga for cultural events (mainly literature)


Oliver Gassner’s Experience

  • Freelancer

    carpe.com (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

    September 2003Present (6 years 3 months)

    Freelancing as a journalist [since 1984], writer, culture management consultant [since 1998], culture project/event management [since 1987], online project management (Websites, Databases, ...) [since 1996], creative writing trainer, Business English trainer (for Germans), speaker about and organizer of online and offline networking for freelancers.

  • Blogger and Wiki Gardener

    carpe.com

    (Writing and Editing industry)

    2000Present (9 years )

    Extensive experience with weblogs/blogs and wiki-usage (incl. installation) both for individual, work group or community use.

  • Heavy User

    The Internets

    (Writing and Editing industry)

    19882009 (21 years )

  • Speaker

    Barcamp

    (Writing and Editing industry)

    20062008 (2 years )

  • Lehrer, Studienassessor

    Land Baden-Württemberg (Kultusministerium)

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

    August 1996September 2002 (6 years 2 months)

    (Dates except for the period mentioned below) Teaching German and English at various levels from 4th grade (Grundschule) to secondary level (Grundkurs 12/13). Including German as a Foreign Language for immigrants. Responsible for class managment (Klassenlehrer). Also taught Creative Writing (Literatur Grundkurs), managed a pupil group (AG) who took care of the school homepage and accompanied pupils on (overnight) field trips to Munich (twice) and to Lace Constance. Took part in a seminar on addiction prevention for pupils and in seminars on creative writing.

  • Marketing Operations

    DELOS AG

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    August 1999June 2000 (11 months)

    Helping DELOS AG (Stuttgart, Germany. Internet security, firewalls, load-balancing, filtering, consulting) to expand from a 2-person-venture to a team, project-management of (and copy for) new homepage, direct-mail activities (target selection and copy), organize presence at local, regional and national trade shows.
    Currently (2003/2004) hired by DELOS AG to provide news content for their homepage as a freelancer.


Oliver Gassner’s Education

  • Universität Konstanz

    M.A. , German, English Literature and Linguitics, Media , 19841992

  • St. Olaf College

    Literature,Religion,Ballroom,German 19881988

  • Hegau-Gymnasium, Singen am Hohentwiel


Additional Information

Oliver Gassner’s Groups:

Barcamp, Literaturwettbewerb ZEIT/IBM

  •    St. Olaf College Alumni Group
  •    I like Germany
  •    LI-DE (LInked DEutschland)
  •    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
  •    SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas For Technology
  •    Tweeple
  •    "friendfeed" friends
  •    BarCamps Berlin
  •    Enterprise 2.0 Group
  •    American Go Association
  •    Social Media Club
  •    identi.ca
  •    Uni Konstanz Alumni
  •    Midas Oracle = Prediction Markets + Market Predictions
  •    Creative Commons
  •    Say It Social
  •    Wuala - The Social Online Storage
  •    Zukunftsforschung
  •    Weiterbildung, Training und Coaching
  •    DokuWiki
  •    Twitter, Microblogging und Co in Deutschland

Oliver Gassner’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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