VisualCV

As a consultant, speaker, and writer, I provide online media strategies for government and business. I am the author of AriWriter, where I write frequently about social media and online marketing, and am a contributing writer to Mashable and the Huffington Post.

In March 2009, I was hired on a part-time basis with Social Media Today as a community manager responsible for blogger outreach, site moderation, and front-end programming for two B2B online communities: the Sustainable Cities Collective and Governing People.

Active on many social networking sites, you can usually find me collaborating on Twitter, aggregating on FriendFeed, networking on LinkedIn, sharing on Govloop, updating on Facebook, uploading and tagging photos on Flickr, appreciating shared music on Blip.fm, and reviewing restaurants on Yelp.

In August 2008, I founded the Twitter Fan Wiki of U.S. Government users, acknowledged by the OpenCongress project. Within days, I was interviewed in Federal Computer Week about members of Congress using Twitter.

Are you a business or government agency eager to hire a social media consultant or online community manager? I help companies and individuals reduce overhead, increase productivity, and engage with customers and constituents using interactive marketing and online branding. I can assist you in determining which social networking tools are best.

I am actively seeking opportunities in social media and online marketing to leverage my 10 years of experience in information technology, community journalism, and government administration.

I hold a master’s in public administration from the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University, and a bachelor’s in sociology from Worcester State College.

My professional affiliations include:

• American Society for Public Administration
• American Political Science Association
• American Israel Public Affairs Committee
• Newburyport Energy Advisory Committee
• Resident Advisory Committee of Newburyport Chamber of Commerce & Industry
• Young Leadership Division of Combined Jewish Philanthropies

My personal blog, AriWriter, is where I provide strategies and tips on social media and online marketing. In April 2008, it received over 20,000 unique visits from a global audience, with about 600 opt-in RSS and email subscriptions.

Elsewhere online:

• Website reviews on StumbleUpon
• Restaurant reviews on Yelp
• Movie reviews on IMDb

Selections from writing history:

• Graduate School. 2007: Strategic Plan to Amend the Mass. Taxpayer Protection Act of 1993
• The Boston Globe. Dec. 2006: Travel essay on visiting Guangzhou, China
  
• The Boston Globe. Dec. 2003: Travel essay on visiting Canton, Mississipi
  
• The Canton Journal. Nov. 2002: Behind-the-scenes of filming Mystic River
  
• Devil in the Woods Magazine. Jun. 2002: Profile of filmmaker Michael Dean
• Contributor, 2002. Hungry? Boston: The Lowdown on Where the Real People Eat

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction. Everything in the world must have a design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition, it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. - John Steinbeck, in Travels with Charley

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. - Attributed to James A. Michener, Francoise Rene Auguste Chateaubriand, and a Zen master