When I was a kid I was the first person in my hick town to have a Commodore 64, Atari or Walkman (and now you know how old I am).
I’m the first person on your block with the latest gadget or application. I’m also the person who can explain these gadgets and concepts to you simply.
Got into software after college (journalism major!)[list_item icon=
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Worked my way from tech support to writing and editing technical documentation and technical training to content strategy.[/list_item]
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Did some PR/Corporate Communications in Phoenix and developed one of the first company intranets way back in the 90s.[/list_item]
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Toiled in the fields of San Francisco software startups (survived the San Francisco boom and bust), and was a one-woman technical publications department in a startup that survived. [/list_item]
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I was one of the few people blogging into the void in 1999.[/list_item]
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Developed a love for usability (was credited in one of the earliest website critique books – Web Pages That Suck by Vincent Flanders).[/list_item]
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]Taught myself HTML and web design on the side for fun in the early 1990s. Happily CMS clients came along making things much easier (t
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Learned about SEO and SEM. Decided I wasn’t black hat or statistical enough to really love SEO the way it wanted to be loved. But I loved the “landing page” side of things that appreciated the value of content and usability.[/list_item]
Moved to New York City, got myself into the New York tech scene, and discovered Content Strategy. Did Content Strategy for a few years, but realized I missed the interaction and stimulation of training people (and writing materials for them!)[list_item icon=
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Want to know more?
Contact me at thecontentfix@gmail.com