Some Stuff I’ve Done

This list is mostly for my own reference, since I tend to selectively forget these things.

Speaking and Facilitation: Technology

  • Gave a talk at the Online Community Unconference called “Free Culture is Your Goldmine” with Meitar Moscovitz (Mountain View; June 2010)
  • Organized a social media discussion workshop series called “Deviants Online” (San Francisco; December 2009 – Feb 2010)
  • Co-led a 90-minute workshop called “Building Your Brand with Social Media” at Seize the Moment, a journalism and social media conference (San Francisco; August 2009)
  • Led two Geek Lab sessions at BlogHer 2009: “Hacking, Mashups, and Other Rebel Coding,” and “CMS Pros and Cons” (Chicago; July 2009)
  • Panelist on the Indy Arts and Media Panel, “Online Promotion for Artists” (San Francisco; June 2009)
  • Led a session at Woolfcamp 2009 called “Creating Spaces Instead of Content: Managing Community Blogs” (Santa Cruz; April 2009)
  • Organized the Geek Lab (all-day community tech assistance space) for the BlogHer Reach Out Tour (Boston and D.C.; October 2008)
  • Panelist in a session called “Coming Out On The Internet” at BlogHer 2008 (San Francisco; July 2008)
  • Panelist on Access SF’s televised session called “DIY Internet Marketing” (San Francisco; Spring 2008)
  • Led a session called “Project Management for Multitaskers” at Barcamp Block (Palo Alto; August 2007)
  • Led a session at Woolfcamp 2006 called “Nifty Techie Bloggie Tools” (Santa Cruz; Spring 2006)

Speaking and Performance: Creative Writing

  • Produced and performed in a group reading of confessions from Genderfork.com, featured at the Queer Open Mic (San Francisco; June 2010)
  • Spoke at Oberlin College, performing a variation on “Sex, Queers, and Finding Home,” adapted for a trans and genderqueer audience. (Oberlin, Ohio; March 2010)
  • Spoke at Allegheny College on the grey areas of gender and sexuality. Talk was titled, “Sex, Queers, and Finding Home.”  (Meadville, Pennsylvania; April 2009) (video clips)
  • Performed at Working for the Weakened, a show curated by Sherilyn Connelly (September 2008)
  • Co-host of San Francisco’s Queer Open Mic (July 2008 – present)
  • Took first place in the 2008 Artists Circle Reunion Poetry Slam (Durham, NH; May 2008)
  • Performed spoken word for Oyster River High School students with the Artists Circle (Spring, 2004)
  • Member of the 2004 Crooked Verse Poetry Slam Team in New Hampshire (Durham, NH; May 2004)
  • Regular at the Cafe Eclipse weekly Poetry Night with three feature performances (Concord, NH, 1999 – 2001)

Publications Management

  • Founder and Director of CultureConductor.com (2007 – Present)
  • Founder and Director of Genderfork.com (2007 – Present)
  • Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WRIToracle and TheWrit.org (2003-2006)
  • Editor-in-Chief of Outside the Lines, my high school literary magazine, for three years (1999 – 2001)

Publishing

  • Short story, “The Social Experiment” appeared in the anthology, Coming and Crying, Edited by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell (September 2010)
  • Featured in the book Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less, edited by Nick Douglas. (Summer 2009)
  • Poem appeared in Cherry Bleeds literary magazine (January 2009)
  • Short story, “Will You Go Out With Me?” appeared in Can I Sit With You, Too?, an anthology benefiting special needs children (Fall 2008)
  • Article, “How to Respond to Clueless Advertising” appeared in Queercents (April 2008)
  • Article, “Get Yourself a Website,” appeared in Freelance Daily (2005)
  • Published extensively in WRIToracle (2003 – 2006)
  • Two poems appeared in Aegis, the University of New Hampshire literary magazine (2004)

Interviews

  • Interviewed on FCC Free Radio for perspectives on social media marketing.  (July 2009)
  • Interviewed on Pirate Cat radio for perspectives on gender and blogging (audio clips). (March 2008)
  • Interviewed by Dr. Karen Rayne of Adolescent Sexuality about my experience growing up queer (Part 1, Part 2). (March 2008)

Website Development & Social Media Clients
Consulting in varying capacities. List is not complete. Not including links because then I’d have to explain the the work I did, and that’s too long a story for this page.

  • Alexander Parsons, Novelist
  • Amy Reed, Young Adult Novelist
  • Bedrock Brands
  • BlogHer
  • Brian Koval, Life Coach
  • Cerado
  • Cisco
  • Chevron
  • China Digital Times
  • The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
  • Deep Craft
  • Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Hospital
  • Five Little Monkeys Toy Store
  • foolsFURY Theater Company
  • The HINTS Lab at the University of Washington
  • Hyperion
  • Interbrand
  • Jiffy Lube
  • Locke Liddel & Sapp, Attorneys at Law
  • Michael Shower, Realtor
  • MyCRM Career
  • Open Society Institute Foundation
  • Percepticon
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
  • Professional Aviation Maintenance Association
  • Punk Domestics
  • SF Indie Fashion
  • Supernova Conference
  • “The Line” Documentary
  • Whitney Moses, CMT
  • Witch Creek Arts

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