Michelle Wolverton

Current

• Lead Organizer / Event Planner at Podcamp Boston 4
• Organizer/Assistant at Podcamp Foundation
• Digital Project Manager / Personal Assistant / Social Media at Pixieology

• Project Lead / Promotions at Virtual Hot Wings

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Past

• Social Media Evangelist and Marketing at Vibemetrix
• Remote Agent at Undercurrent
• Events Coordinator/Assistant at SL Brand

• Community Host at Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms
• Warranty Claims Assistant - Customer Service and Support Staff at NEA Service Center
• Administrative Assistant / Receptionist at 330 Lawyers Group
• Office Assistant to President and Vice President at Renite Company
• Office Management at ImageNation Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
• Community host at Memespace

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Education

• Kaplan University
• Arkansas State University

Recommended

21 people have recommended Michelle

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• Chelpixie.com
• My Project
• Twitter

Michelle Wolverton’s Summary

Freelance Virtual Personal Assistant, Digital Project Manager and Social Media Consultant/Marketing Agent at Pixieology for several individual clients and companies.

Project Lead on Virtual Hot Wings, a fan released CD for Matthew Ebel of his Second Life tour. You can find out more at http://www.virtualhotwings.com

Lead organizer of Pocamp Boston, a digital new media and podcasting unconference. http://www.podcampboston.org

Michelle Wolverton’s Specialties:

*Social Media Evangelist and Social Media Marketing (including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN)
*Virtual Assistant to Social Media Rockstars
*Conference Organization
*Music Marketing

Michelle Wolverton’s Experience

• Lead Organizer / Event Planner

  Podcamp Boston 4

  (Online Media industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  As lead organizer of Podcamp Boston 4, I worked with the best team and an amazing community to bring together some of the most knowledgeable and passionate people from the new media/social media/podcasting space to learn and share over the two day conference.
  
  The most rewarding experience is to see a community of people come together under a place and with an opportunity you've worked hard to pull together.

• Organizer/Assistant

  Podcamp Foundation

  (Online Media industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  * Organizing team of unconference Podcamp Boston 2 held on the weekend of October 26-28, 2007
  
  * Organizing team of unconference Podcamp Boston 3 - July 19 & 20th, 2008.
  
  *Responsible for communications with attendees, organizing information needed on game day, creating conference guide, music event for Podcamp Boston 2, ordering equipment, setting up and breaking down the music equipment, communication with musicians regarding performances, working registration desk and well anything I can get my hands on and help out with!

• Digital Project Manager / Personal Assistant / Social Media

  Pixieology

  (Online Media industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  As a virtual assistant I've made many client offices run better and saved numerous hours by managing their tasks quickly and efficiently. Especially geared toward working with consultants and small businesses.
  
  In marketing:
  - Marketing agent and publicity management for Matthew Ebel/
  - Management of social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.
  - Database creation of contacts in any industry.
  - Advice and marketing related to all and any social media, plotting out best social media strategies for companies.
  
  Past and present clients:
  
  crayon
  Social Media Club - National
  Chris Brogan
  C.C. Chapman
  Christopher Penn and the Student Loan Network
  Podcamp Foundation
  Howard Rheingold
  Whitney Hoffman
  Matthew Ebel
  Laura Fitton - Pistachio Consulting
  Connie Rece - Reece & Company
  eMail Our Military
  Drupal Productions
  Kelle Sparta
  Grant Robertson
  xynoMedia Technology
  Larry Lawfer
  Josh Mormann
  Greg Wilson - Adobe
  Creative Sage - Cathryn Hrudicka

• Project Lead / Promotions

  Virtual Hot Wings

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  From start to finish this project has been a major breakthrough in the world of new media. Meeting Christopher Penn, another dedicated fan of Matthew Ebel, we collaborated on a CD titled Virtual Hot Wings to benefit Matthew Ebel. With Christopher recording, editing, and compiling the album through 70+ builds and creating the web content and transaction processing, we set out to then market the idea across the board, both in Second Life and real life.
  
  Contact and promotion with the press in real life, Second Life, and working with podcasters to promote the product on air. Collaboration with builders regarding the creative and technical aspects with the creation of the virtual vendor in Second Life. Working with crayon in order to promote Virtual Hot Wings release through the Virtual Thirst campaign. Manager of Customer Service and Sales for album sales and post sale satisfaction.
  
  Press release: http://www.crayonville.com/press/ebel_cd_release.html

• Social Media Evangelist and Marketing

  Vibemetrix

  (Market Research industry)

  September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)

  At Vibemetrix, I'm the face of the company. In putting a face to the brand I've manage to build traffic to the site and to the blog by creating content and engaging the community. Primarily my day is filled with social media outreach including Twitter, blogging, commenting and building relationships.
  
  I'm also responsible for giving demos, managing contacts, and all social media accounts.

• Remote Agent

  Undercurrent

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  April 2008 — November 2008 (8 months)

  At Undercurrent, I am one of the responsible individuals who are spreading the word of particular campaigns or marketing initiatives by seeding content using digital media outlets and tapping into their network. We take different approaches with each client depending on their goals.
  
  Other responsibilities might include: research projects, writing blog post, editing videos, creating profiles, design projects, etc.
  
  Campaigns: Stereofame, Cubby Bernstein, Tennis Channel

• Events Coordinator/Assistant

  SL Brand

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Events Services industry)

  April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

  This position is events management for an island in Second Life named Los Arboles. Home of www.slbrand.com, which specializes in events, building within Second Life and avatar creation and personalization. I am the assistant to co-owner Yxes Delacroix.
  
  Events management in Second Life can cover anything from promotion to scheduling performers and other important components, getting the event out into the public to finding live/DJ'ed music for the event in question. Interaction with people of different diversities in order to communicate an event and invite people to attend. Creating press releases and making contact with the press corp.

• Community Host

  Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms

  (Online Media industry)

  January 2001 — June 2007 (6 years 6 months)

  As community host of the Welcome conference, upon immediate arrival we attempted to make new users feel welcome and know where to venture to first. Also answered questions about how Caucus software works and addressing concerns.
  
  As the editor of the weekly Scoop, I managed writers and content to produce the community newsletter with updates from each conference/forum.

• Warranty Claims Assistant - Customer Service and Support Staff

  NEA Service Center

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

  April 2006 — February 2007 (11 months)

  The core of this position was collaborating with major manufacturers of appliances (including but not limited to Maytag, GE, Whirlpool and Frigidaire) regarding warranty claims filing, payment and issues. This helped the manufacturers to refine the system so that payments were processed more quickly.
  
  Also responsible for accounts receivables and collection with the use of QuickBooks, customer service, dispatch and scheduling calls for service technicians and general office duties, such as document preparation, faxing, mass mailing billing, and other support as needed.

• Administrative Assistant / Receptionist

  330 Lawyers Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Law Practice industry)

  February 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for directing incoming calls through switchboard with for 20 people within a small law practice. Position included providing office support and legal assistant support to 11 attorneys within the practice.
  
  Client support and meeting attendance was a regular duty, discussing and listening to the details of cases and providing feedback and opinions on legal issues. Conduction of legal research using Lexis Nexis and the internet to prepare court documents for several attorneys within the firm to support their cases.
  
  Project lead for Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America 5K marathon that took place with close to 200 attendees. Created the logo for the event using Photoshop and then was responsible for printing and mass mailing invitations and processing registration for runners as well as supporters.
  
  Position also included general office duties as needed.

• Office Assistant to President and Vice President

  Renite Company

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

  June 2004 — February 2005 (9 months)

  My biggest responsibility was handling the shipment of equipment and chemicals including graphic compounds to companies both domestically and internationally, this position included interaction with international companies on a daily basis as a representative of both the President and V.P.
  
  I worked with freight companies, U.S. Customs and international customs to determine the best way to ship, by land, sea and air and to make the product shipment go as smoothly as possible for all parties.
  
  My responsibilities also included billing and invoicing customers, management of phone system and general office duties as needed, providing executive assistant support to both the President and Vice President of Renite.

• Office Management

  ImageNation Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  January 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 9 months)

  Office support for the first year, before advancing to office management and assistant to CEO and gaining supervisory experience with 3 employees
  
  Management of major billing system in order to process invoicing clients and receiving payments
  
  24/48 hours on call customer service and support
  
  2+ years programming experience in HTML and Javascript

• Community host

  Memespace

  (Online Media industry)

  April 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 7 months)

  Community host of Life Stories conference/forum, facilitating conversation and organization of topics.
  
  Engaging in conversation with community members and working with members to create a community full of conversation on memes.
  
  Providing community support to members with questions and concerns.

Michelle Wolverton’s Education

• Kaplan University

  Bachelor of Science , Paralegal Studies , 2002 — 2006

• Arkansas State University

  2001 — 2002

Additional Information

Michelle Wolverton’s Websites:

• Chelpixie.com
• My Project
• Twitter

Michelle Wolverton’s Interests:

virtual personal assistant, chelpixie.com, politics, new media, social media, blogging, Matthew Ebel, Second Life, marketing, podcasts, organization, conferences

Michelle Wolverton’s Groups:

Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms, Second Life, Relay for Life (Second Life), Lambda Epsilon Chi Honor Society, Twitter

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