Community Technologist For the Public Good and Creative Commons Available For Hire

BIO

I’m a community technologist. I figure out the best ways for people to use technology to engage their communities. Whether it’s through pre-existing systems and networks or custom built ones, I weave people, technology and human resources together to ensure measurable impact for your community-based online/offline initiatives.

My top three specialities:

online relationship/social network cultivation
Wordpress/Drupal design and implementation
Twitter, Facebook, eNewsletter and blog communications integration

Community networks I’m engaged with:

CTC VISTA: I regularly contribute to their wiki. I also served as a VISTA Leader.
The National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture: I currently manage their website and online presence.
Digital Democracy: I helped them win $5000 as a Project Champion for Netsquared’s Mobile Development Challenge
CTCNet: I currently serve as an ad-hoc listserv moderator. I also helped facilitate a great report from the conference with Belinda Rawlins, Director of CTC VISTA.
N-TEN: I crowd-funded my way to the conference, co-presented a session for nptechies and then helped facilitate a meetup of fellow community technologists.
The San Diego LGBT Center: I co-developed their Digital Media Project, built toolkits and created/taught classes on digital storytelling using the Center for Digital Storytelling’s train the trainer model.

I’m a builder as much as I am a strategist. Download my resume here or read on…

THINGS I’VE BUILT

built an online ‘listening portal’ to monitor brand mentions of NAMAC: http://bit.ly/namac-listening-post
built a ‘federated search engine’ of a national network of community media centers: http://namac.org/federated-search-beta
built, launched and contributed to online communities of creative audio/video/film artists: (http://bit.ly/comm-launch)
founded and developed offline electronic music communities: (http://www.sharesd.org/about)
developed and refined one of the Media Arts Center of San Diego’s Digital Storytelling Stations: (http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/services/digitalstorytelling.shtml)
created a digital storytelling toolkit that was adopted and remixed for the web: (http://ctcvista.org/files/mediatoolkit/begin.html) note – the quote on that page is actually from Natasha Freidus from Creative Narrations)

CURRENTLY WORKING ON

We Operate Best Together – a project to map the stories of social innovation and social change in creative communities worldwide. Also running a pledge campaign that ends July 4th! Make a pledge!

CONSULTING SERVICES
I can also provide a range of consulting services to help you or your organization develop it’s capacity to be effective online and off. Some of the services and trainings I can provide are: