Director, Community & Services at Crowd Fusion, Inc.
Greater New York City Area
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- Director, Community & Services at Crowd Fusion, Inc.
- Bloggerat Little Elephants (Self-employed)
- Volunteer Community Host at UNIS Alumni
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- Social Media Consulting at Veronique Christensen
- Project Management at WorkHabit
- Volunteer E-News Editor at Elementary School PTA
- Blog Producer at BabyCenter
- Volunteer Community Host at AlumniNets
- Web Community Manager at Stanford University
- Product Manager, Stanford Alumni Association at Stanford University
- Senior Producer, Freelance at Seismicom, Inc
- Production Manager at WebSwap, Inc.
- Executive Producer at Zadu, Inc.
- Senior Project Manager at Icon Medialab, Inc.
- Senior Producer at Brand Dialogue/Young & Rubicam
- Producer, Freelance at kidsites3000
- Producer, Freelance at Health Pages
- Producer, Freelance at Multimedia Resources
- Producer/Project Manager at Ogilvy & Mather Interactive
- Education
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- United Nations International School
- Lafayette College
- City University of New York-Hunter College
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Veronique Christensen’s Summary
I love building sites & communities.
Veronique Christensen’s Specialties:
Web product management. Online community strategy & management. Facilitation. Extensive project management & product specification experience. Blogging. Social Media.
Veronique Christensen’s Experience
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Director, Community & Services
Crowd Fusion, Inc.
(Online Media industry)
June 2008 — Present (7 months)
Crowd Fusion is a new web publishing platform, built to solve the pain points of publishers at scale.
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Blogger
Little Elephants (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Publishing industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
This is the place to find creative ideas to keep kids entertained and engaged.
Take a minute visit the site and drop me a line. I'd love to hear from you.
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Volunteer Community Host
UNIS Alumni
(Educational Institution; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years)
Created and host a listserv for all alumni of the United Nations International School. Created, host and manage a separate list for my classmates. Provide support to alumni interested in hosting communities for their classes -- this includes best practices for finding lost alumni, as well as technical and facilitation advice.
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Social Media Consulting
Veronique Christensen
(Internet industry)
September 2006 — August 2008 (2 years)
Projects include:
Full Circle Associates -- research, and online facilitation workshop mentor
Sophia's Garden Foundation -- blog and community consulting
Maya's Mom -- guest blogger
Zytes -- community consulting
eHub -- Interviews Editor: http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/
Silicon Valley Moms Blog -- blogger: http://svmomblog.typepad.com
Scholastic.com - blogger ("Crafty Mom"): http://scholasticparents.typepad.com/crafty_mom/
Kidspot.com.au -- community consulting -
Project Management
WorkHabit
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2007 — April 2008 (5 months)
Design and develop work-flow processes for this fast-growing web development shop. Implement project management systems using Project Insight. Manage project teams. Client account management.
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Volunteer E-News Editor
Elementary School PTA
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
June 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Collect, edit, and publish information for my children's elementary school community. Manage the listserv. Launched a discussion group for district PTA communications officers to share best practices.
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Blog Producer
BabyCenter
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Launched BabyCenter's first blog initiatives: MOMformation and FAMEbaby. Developed the strategy and executed day-to-day blog operations . Managed and mentored a team of over 20 bloggers.
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Volunteer Community Host
AlumniNets
(Higher Education industry)
March 2004 — March 2007 (3 years 1 month)
Created and host a listserv for Alumni Relations professionals to network and share best practices.
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Web Community Manager
Stanford University
(Educational Institution; Internet industry)
January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)
Responsible for the online communities hosted by the Stanford Alumni Association. This includes vendor management, list management, application management, and reporting. Provide best practices for volunteers and outreach personnel.
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Product Manager, Stanford Alumni Association
Stanford University
(Educational Institution; Internet industry)
July 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 7 months)
Responsible for the online community applications such as discussion groups, club and class websites, and a private social network hosted by the Stanford Alumni Association. This includes developing product requirements, timelines, user studies, vendor management, list management, live application management, and reporting. Provide best practices for volunteers and outreach personnel.
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Senior Producer, Freelance
Seismicom, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2001 — July 2001 (3 months)
-- Client management, project team management, project estimating and creation/management of all project documentation (RFPs, requirements, project plans & timelines).
-- Managed a multi-functional team to develop online promotions for Netscape. -
Production Manager
WebSwap, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — December 2000 (1 year)
-- Hired and managed Content Producers and Editors.
-- Developed community strategy & plans with Product Management to meet business & marketing objectives.
-- Initiated in-house usability message board
-- Launched third party dynamic & static content on the site.
-- Developed & documented work flow process for WebSwap's development life-cycle.
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Executive Producer
Zadu, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 1999 — December 1999 (4 months)
-- Directed and produced all web properties at Zadu. These included the intranet, public site and beta site.
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Senior Project Manager
Icon Medialab, Inc.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
June 1999 — September 1999 (4 months)
-- Client management, project estimating and creation/management of all project documentation (scope of work, requirements, project plans & timelines).
-- Managed multi-functional team in developing the prototype, technical specifications & functional requirements for a redesign of Homes.Com.
-- Managed production of L'Oreal's CCB-Paris U.S. site in coordination with Icon Medialab's Paris office. -
Senior Producer
Brand Dialogue/Young & Rubicam
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
March 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 3 months)
-- Client management, project estimating and creation/management of all project documentation (scope of work, requirements, project plans & timelines).
-- Citibank:
--- Developed prototype for the Hong Kong website redesign -- built using BroadVision.
--- Managed production of the Investments and Loans sections of the HK site
--- Produced Latin America Marketing Intranet site.
--- Produced Global Youth Intranet site.
--- Produced CitiDirect Intranet site.
--- Produced Diners Club banner campaign & jump page.
-- IBM:
--- Produced E-Commerce Latin America website.
-- AT&T:
--- Produced International Calling Card banner campaign and sitelette.
--- Produced WorldNet banner campaign and sitelette.
-- Produced websites for Burson-Marsteller, Paxton-Patterson, Doors-Windows.com, Dr.Pepper, the United States Army, Philip Morris and Voice of Dance.com. -
Producer, Freelance
kidsites3000
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 1997 — March 1997 (2 months)
-- Produced GettingReal! website.
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Producer, Freelance
Health Pages
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 1996 — December 1996 (4 months)
-- Produced health Pages website.
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Producer, Freelance
Multimedia Resources
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 1996 — September 1996 (1 month)
-- Produced a site for MasterCard Corporate Products.
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Producer/Project Manager
Ogilvy & Mather Interactive
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
May 1994 — September 1996 (2 years 5 months)
-- Client management, project estimating and creation/management of project documentation (scope of work, requirements, project plans & timelines).
-- Produced IBM InfoSage banner campaign.
-- Produced IBM and The Olympic Games commercial website ('96).
-- Produced IBM Just Add Warp banner campaign. Six banners run in six languages on 24 heavily trafficked web sites. Laurie Petersen of Media Central very favorably reviewed this project in January 1996.
-- Project Manager & Travel Producer: ExpressNet, a site created for American Express on America Online. Silver Echo Award winner.
-- On-line Travel Conference Host and Coordinator: ExpressNet.
-- Project Manager & QA: Scudder Retirement diskette.
-- QA: Passageway, a diskette-based promotional kit produced for AT&T.
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Veronique Christensen’s Interests:
social software, community, facilitation, project management, product specification
Veronique Christensen’s Groups:
SFWOW, AlumniNets, UNIS Alumni
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Young & Rubicam Alumni in the world
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