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In partnership with SportsBlog.com, I am contracted to write four articles/week covering general National Football League and some team specific content.

• Develop and maintain relationships with all types of media outlets for promotional purposes. This includes, but not limited to, newspapers, television stations, radio stations, and internet. • Create printed promotional materials. • Create and updating the center’s web site and social media sites. • Photograph events and write press releases to publicize the center. • Monitor and update information with all the Chambers of Commerce of which the center is a member. • Develop promotional materials for past, present and future users/donors of the center. This includes, but not limited to, schools, corporations, and the public. • Develop promotional video content from concept to finished product. • Organize, develop and implement strategies and materials for school, corporate and public missions as well as summer/vacation time space camps. Challenger Learning Center uses space exploration as a theme to create positive learning experiences that raise students’ expectations of success; foster in them a long-term interest in math, science and technology; and motivate them to pursue careers in these fields.

I currently cover the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour for B/R. I'm responsible for completing a weekly national assignment(s) and I also conduct interviews and travel to PGA Tour and LPGA Tour events as a credentialed member of the national media. Bleacher Report (http://bleacherreport.com) is the web's largest destination for fan-powered sports content. Since launching in September 2007, Bleacher Report has grown to over 10 million monthly unique visitors and now publishes more original articles about more sports than any other source on Earth. Bleacher Report has forged distribution partnerships with Fox Sports, CBS Sports, and Scout.com, and been recognized as one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Sites of 2008 and a top new venture by BusinessWeek.

I outlined and designed a website for the city of Jamestown, NY, including photography, video recording/editing and training. Additionally, I established social media accounts for the organization—Jamestown Up Close—and developed a strategy for social media and search engine optimization (SEO). www.JamestownUpClose.com I also created the Jamestown Up Close full page ad for the Chautauqua County Visitor's Guide and modified an existing logo to better represent the organization's goals.

• Planning, design and upkeep of all web pages and micro sites • Planning, design and upkeep of mobile site • Work with artistic directors and/or assistants to deliver their web content • Design all graphics for web site • Photography for web site/print/advertising/media • Compile and report web traffic statistics • Customer service responses via email, our online help center, Facebook and Twitter • Video recording and editing • Social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) planning, posting and responding • Design and format eNewsletters • Design and distribute online promos (graphics and web pages) • Prep and post audio files (podcasts) to RSS feed • Organize monthly receipts for payment • Supervise and direct efforts of summer employees and/or offseason interns • Coordinated (planned, purchased, designed) advertising for Schools of Fine and Performing Arts program • Designed 24-page seasonal newspaper, "The Chautauquan" Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of over 170,000 attend scheduled public events. Chautauqua is dedicated to the exploration of the best in human values and the enrichment of life through a program that explores the important religious, social and political issues of our times; stimulates provocative, thoughtful involvement of individuals and families in creative response to such issues; and promotes excellence and creativity in the appreciation, performance and teaching of the arts.

• Contracted to write a minimum of 30 articles/month covering the National Football League and its teams • Contracted to write a minimum of 10 articles/month (movie reviews, event reviews, product reviews) • Planned, recorded and edited weekly podcast interviews with NFL players • Designed logos for partner blogs Founded in 2005, b5media is an online publishing company with a focus on entertainment and lifestyle topics. Home to a diverse community of passionate, insightful bloggers, b5media enables conversations around shared interests. b5media covers topics such as photography (Digital Photography School), beauty and fashion (Splendicity.com), men’s interests (EveryJoe.com), and health and lifestyles (Blisstree.com) as well as operates over 70 Entertainment blogs. b5media attracts an audience of more than 8.3 million unique visitors every month.

• Responsible for all aspects of print magazine production including writing, interviewing, editing, layout and design, and purchase of printing

• Wrote and distributed press releases • Designed interdepartmental newsletter • Designed/updated logo

Responsible for all aspects of print magazine production including writing, interviewing, editing, layout and design, purchase of printing, mailing, subscription management, advertising sales, and national distribution (Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc).

BA in Public Relations
Activities: The Source (student newspaper editor), golf team (captain)

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