Shawn Farner

Past

• Editor at gizHQ
• IT & Support at Ritter Insurance Marketing
• Contract Blogger at WebpageFX

• Blogging Intern at CrunchGear

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Education

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Blog

Shawn Farner’s Summary

I enjoy writing and blogging about tech and am a huge advocate of volunteerism. I started gizHQ.com in January 2009 and also post on my own blog at Farner.in.

I hope to soon begin planning for a web service that connects volunteers with organizations in need of help.

Shawn Farner’s Specialties:

writing, blogging, community service, fundraising, community involvement

Shawn Farner’s Experience

• Editor

  gizHQ

  (Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

  January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

  Seeks out new stories.
  Delegates article writing to other writers.

• IT & Support

  Ritter Insurance Marketing

  (Insurance industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

  Provided IT & support to company employees. Set up company blog and introduced other means of social media interaction. Maintained company Twitter account. Also developed new web site design, which launched in August 2008.

• Contract Blogger

  WebpageFX

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

  Wrote posts for the WebpageFX blog on topics such as web design, internet marketing and social media. Purpose of blogging was both to reach out to the web design/internet marketing community, to reach out to potential customers and also to increase the amount of content for search engines to crawl.

• Blogging Intern

  CrunchGear

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

  Wrote a dozen or so blog posts for technology blog CrunchGear.

Shawn Farner’s Education

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelors , English , 2004 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Alpha Phi Omega, Orientation Leaders, Intramurals

Additional Information

Shawn Farner’s Websites:

• My Blog

Shawn Farner’s Interests:

Writing, technology, watching the Philadelphia Eagles, playing any sport

Shawn Farner’s Honors:

Momentum, Inc. Outstanding Computer Student, 2003

Shawn Farner’s Contact Settings

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