Computer skills
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint
ESRI ArcView (computer mapping software for analysing geographical based data)
Adobe Dreamweaver (web design software)
GIMP (open source version of Photoshop)
Inkscape (open source version of Illustrator)
Joomla! (open source content management system)
Wordpress, Blogger, Movable Type(blogging platforms)
Communications skills
Public relations counsel
Have provided public relations counsel and media relations strategy to Fortune 500 firms, small businesses, non-profit organizations and associations.
On-line reputation management
Have provided online reputation management through the use of sophisticated and mysterious techniques.
Award-winning reporter and writer
Have written thousands of articles about a wide variety of topics. Can turn complex subject mater in business, science or government into readable and lively prose.
Accomplished at story development and finding news hooks
Helps reporters develop ideas into news stories, finds the news hooks in stories, pitches stories for page 1 consideration.
Editing and proof-reading
Have been an assignment editor for nearly 8 years, responsible for rewriting and editing copy for print and online.
Television and radio interview subject
Appeared regularly on New Jersey Network's "Reporters Roundtable," Cablevision News12's "Roundtable" and made appearances on MSNBC, New York's Fox 5, WABC and WNYC's Brian Lehrer talk show.
Public speaker
New Jersey Call to Service Summit in New Brunswick, N.J., June 2010 on a panel about citizen journalism;
New Jersey State League of Municipalites in Atlantic City, November 2007, on a panel about the role of the press for municipal government officials;
The Society for Environmental Journalists, Michigan State University, October 2000, about series “The Air We Breathe;”
ESRI User Conference, San Diego, Calif., July 2001, on panel on using Geographical Information Systems for journalism. |
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