Oliver Gassner

Current

• Freelancer at carpe.com (Self-employed)
• Blogger and Wiki Gardener at carpe.com

Past

• Lehrer, Studienassessor at Land Baden-Württemberg (Kultusministerium)
• Marketing Operations at DELOS AG

Education

• Universität Konstanz
• St. Olaf College

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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 2003 — Present (5 years 1 month)

  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)

  2000 — Present (8 years)

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

• Lehrer, Studienassessor

  Land Baden-Württemberg (Kultusministerium)

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

  August 1996 — September 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 1999 — June 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, 1984 — 1992

• St. Olaf College

  Literature,Religion,Ballroom,German 1988 — 1988

Additional Information

Oliver Gassner’s Groups:

Barcamp, Literaturwettbewerb ZEIT/IBM

•    BarCamps Berlin

Oliver Gassner’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
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