Shawn Farner

Current

Chief Evangelist at Taketake
Strategist at Socialust Creative

Past

Founder/Editor at gizHQ
IT & Support at Ritter Insurance Marketing
Intern at WebpageFX

Intern at CrunchGear

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Education

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

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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

Chief Evangelist

Taketake

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Strategist

Socialust Creative

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Founder/Editor

gizHQ

(Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

Founded and served as Editor for gadget blog gizHQ. As Editor, chose which news would be covered and delegated writing to other bloggers. gizHQ was sold to a private buyer in June 2009.
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.
Intern

WebpageFX

(Internet industry)

April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

Wrote blog posts for the WebpageFX blog on topics such as web design, internet marketing and social media.
Intern

CrunchGear

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

Wrote news posts and contributed to a feature article for CrunchGear, one of the top gadget blogs on the internet.