Curt Hopkins
- Account Type:
- member
- Location:
- Eugene, OR USA
- Member since:
- May 31, 2007
- Last Login:
- April 4, 2008
- Last Update:
- April 4, 2008
- Bio:
Skills
- Primary Skill:
- Advanced Marketing/PR
- Secondary Skill:
- Advanced Writer
- Summary:
- I am a marketing communications director with an emphasis on social media I have over 10 years of experience.
My strengths include a deep knowledge of communications technologies, messaging, understanding and communicating with a target audience, marketing flair, copy flow, organization, staff leadership and solid management skills. In addition to strong marketing and copy writing talents, I offer excellent verbal and interpersonal skills. A team leader and a team player, I have a proven ability to inspire staff commitment to business and quality performance goals. A skilled contract negotiator, I have also maintained long-standing business relationships.
In addition to GarageGames, I have led and implemented projects, developed and supervised teams and content departments for PBwiki, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ask.com, Visa, Entopia, Autoweb, eLance and others. I have assessed communication needs for clients and employers, drafted written strategy, assembled personnel, set dates and work budgets, led meetings and brainstorming sessions, written style guides, press releases and taglines, kept senior management up to date, solicited and elicited messaging ideas from stakeholders, placed press and supervised the work of staffers and freelancers.
I am also an experienced journalist with credits in Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Salon, Los Angeles Times, National Post, New Times, Seattle Times, Reuters and others.
Finally, I have extensive experience in social media. I am the Social Media Manager here at GarageGames I am a blogger at Morpheme Tales. I am the founder and director of the non-profit Committee to Protect Bloggers and have served as the project director of Blogsafer, Spirit of America\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s anonymous blogging campaign, and the co-founder of the African blogging-for-others project, Blogswana among other projects. I have employed social media and online skills in the service of many companies, including the world\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s largest wiki provider, PBwiki and interactive online calendar company, Trumba.
I have been interviewed, sourced, quoted and invited to write on blogging, employment and human rights issues by national and international print, online and broadcast media.
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