User:Laura/Resume

PhD in Communications, October 2012.
University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT
Masters of Science in Education in Instructional Technology, May 2005.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Bachelor of General Studies, August 2002.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, May 1994 to May 2007.
40 credits.

The Impact of Jason Akermanis’s Comments on the Western Bulldogs’s Online Fanbase. Research paper published on personal academic blog. June 2010.
Online Activity in the Wake of the Melbourne Storm Controversy. Research paper published on personal academic blog. May 2010.
Case Study: Fan History’s Proposal For Being Acquired by the WMF. White paper. December 2009.
MLB Game Attendance and Alternative Social Network Group Engagement. White paper. October 2009.
Fan Fiction’s Predictive Value for Nielsen Ratings. White paper. September 2009.

Wikis

• Created organizational principles for a wiki with over 900,000 articles.
• Created policies for Fan History Wiki. Policies covered wide range of areas including privacy, article deletion policy, administrative procedural policies.
• Developed databases for mass article creation.
• Edited multiple articles for content quality.
• Advised other wikis on how to do Search Engine Optimization and use social media to increase the number of contributors.
• Assisted Police Wiki in choosing the appropriate copyright policy.
• Assisted in organizing RecentChangesCamp, a wiki conference.
• Provided live support for AboutUs as an admin in their chat room and on the wiki.
• Wrote social media articles for wikiHow.

Market Research / Reputation Management

• Documented the history of fan communities across fandom including different social networks, cliques, relationship pairings, fansites, television shows, music groups.
• Advised company on using fandom friendly wording for a marketing campaign for a contest they were running.
• Developed lists of key influencers and influential sites and groups in specific fan communities. Detailed which members of those lists were worth contacting and which ones could lead to potential public relations problems as a result of different philosophies in the fan community in how they deal with commercial interests in their fan specific spaces.
• Generated data sets for activities taking place in the fan community. This included number of new stories posted to several fan fiction archives, and activity levels LiveJournal communities, LiveJournal clones and mailing lists.
• Explained what analytic data generated in fandom meant in the context of a company’s business interests.
• Monitored what the fan community said about a company. Analysed what this meant for the company, their public relations and advised the company on how to respond.
• Researched privacy issues in fandom and what conflicting ideas regarding privacy mean for people and companies operating in the space.
• Advised fan fiction archives on strategies to increase their traffic and what sort of content they should be seeking in order to grow their market share in the fan fiction community. Advised on making fandom friendly policy decisions and how to handle the issues of advertising on fansites.

Social Media / Community Outreach

• Developed Facebook strategy for a business. Determined which modes of interaction to allow. Created and updated Facebook fan page.
• Implemented Twitter and Identi.ca strategy to increase Fan History’s visibility. Have over 3,000 followers and 17,500 updates on Twitter. Have over 1,100 updates on Identi.ca.
• Developed and created Twitter strategy for a business. Did comparative analysis for other businesses operating in a similar space.
• Consulted with an entertainment wiki regarding developing a Twitter strategy.
• Contacted members of the fan community on blogs, LiveJournal, Quizilla, FanFiction.Net, Xanga, orkut, bebo, MySpace, FaceBook, Yahoo!Groups to ask them how we can better help serve the fan community and to solicit their help in improving content on Fan History in order to work on Fan History’s mission of documenting the history of fandom.
• Reached out to the fan wiki community to inform them about events going on that would be of interest to them and solicit their help with Fan History.
• Used Yahoo!Answers as part of being a good neighbour, increase our visibility, develop good will towards Fan History.
• Created a blog which offers advice to the fan community on how to increase traffic to sites, provide news about what may impact their fannish experience, report on fandom news and inform members of Fan History’s community about plans for the site.

Search Engine Optimization

• Implemented link building plan for Fan History Wiki increased traffic from 600 search engine related visits a day to 1,700 to the site in the period between June 2008 and February 2009. Focus was on using social bookmarking sites and entertainment related sites such as AnimeNewsNetwork, IMDB, FanPop, LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, Chickipedia, Wikia, Quizilla, etc.
• Targeted for specific keywords on Fan History when fandom news broke which resulted in increase in traffic to those pages. Examples of fandom news optimised for included the Open Source Boob Project, Twilight movie release, Barack Obama fan fiction, FaerieCon, and Jorja Fox pregnancy rumors.
• Implemented plan to improve content to increase traffic. Articles included Sakura Lemon Archive, Galbadia Hotel, Bandom, Quizilla and FanLib.

Teaching / Curriculum Design, Library and Technology Support

• Taught high school English for grades 9, 11 and 12 based on the CNMI's learning standards.
• Created own curriculum for use in a high school English classroom based around learning standards created by the CNMI.
• Participated in accreditation process for Tinian Jr. Sr. High School.
• Worked with other teachers to include skills and knowledge application from English into other parts of the curriculum.
• Integrated a constructivist approach into the classroom by relating English language writing lessons to situations that exists outside the classroom.
• Assisted other educators in creating instructional materials.
• Integrated college preparation and career guidance into existing English standards of learning.
• Created a curriculum for fifth grade students that taught technology and information literary skills.
• Created an instructional manual for teachers on how to use technology and information.
• Created educational materials for students and staff on library usage. Assisted students and staff in locating library materials.
• Trained teachers in the use of technology.
• Created web quests to support curriculum goals.
• Assisted in teaching lessons in the computer lab.
• Assisted teachers in finding computer based curriculum materials.
• Catalogued, inventoried and processed books, magazines, videos and software. Checked these materials in and out of the library for students and staff.

Fan History Wiki. Founder. June 2006 to Present.
Dunkirk Systems LLC. December 2009 to June 2010. Social media strategist.
Dundee Township Park District. Carpentersville, Illinois. January 2009 to March 2010. Youth basketball scorekeeper.
FanLib/Take 180 Studios. May 2007 to June 2009. Consultant working involving reputation management and fandom oriented marketing.
Target. Algonquin, Illinois. September 2006 to November 2006. Food sampler.
Tinian Junior Senior High School. Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, United States. January 2006 to April 2006. English teacher.
Community Unit School District 300. Carpentersville, Illinois, October 2001 to August 2004, January 2005 to December 2005. Instructional Media Aide.
British International School, Bratislava. Bratislava, Slovakia, September 2004 to December 2004. Internship in Instructional Technology.
WKDI. DeKalb, Illinois, December 1999 to December 2000. Assistant general manager.
WKDI. DeKalb, Illinois, August 1999 to December 1999. Disc jockey.

Recent Changes Camp Canberra. January 2011. Canberra, Australia. Organizer. Three day Unconference about wikis.
Recent Changes Camp Canberra. August 2010. Canberra, Australia. Organizer. One day Unconference about wikis.
Recent Changes Camp 2010. June 2010. Montreal, Canada. Organizer. Three day Unconference about wikis.
Recent Changes Camp 2009. February 2009. Portland, Oregon. Organizer. Three day Unconference about wikis.
BarCamp Chicago. August 2008. University of Illinois at Chicago. Presenter for information about wikis. Attended panels on SEO and open source software.
SocialDevCamp Chicago. August 2008. Illinois Institute of Technology. Volunteer. Presenter for information about wikis. Attended panels on SEO.
Recent Changes Camp 2008. May 2008. Palo Alto. Volunteer. Three day Unconference about wikis.
likemind. Monthly June 2008 to March 2010. Chicago. Web consulting, SEO and marketing gathering.

Digital Sport Summit 2010. July 2010. Melbourne, Victoria. One day conference about sport and social media.

Otago Polytechnic. April 2011. Dunedin, New Zealand. Guest speaker about social media and sport in a speech organized by Otago Institute of Sport and Adventure.

FanDomination.Net. Site creator, spokesperson and instructional designer. April 2002 to April 2006.
FanWorks.Org. Information facilitator, content provider, policy advisor. June 2004 to January 2006.
WritersU.Net and Writers University. Site owner, creator and maintainer. June 2000 to May 2005.
FanFiction.Net. Writers University maintainer, policy advisor, spokesperson, forum manager, Terms of Service creator and maintainer. June 2000 to December 2001.

i-to-i Online TEFL 40 hour certificate.
Praxis Tests and scores. Praxis I: Reading (185), writing (179), and mathematics (183). Praxis II: Elementary Education: Content knowledge (185), Library Media Specialist (680), and Principles Learning and Teaching 5 – 9 (166).

Workshops from CNMI Public Schools. Legal issues in schools, Sexual harassment in schools, Using Microsoft Movie Maker.
VCU VISSTA: Child abuse and neglect. Recognition, reporting and responding for educators.
Workshops attended for Community Unit School District 300. Illinois Computing Educators conference.