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- SummaryAlison is member of the marketing team at Springpad, a Boston-based consumer web startup built by the Spring Partners team. Previously, Alison was the Community Manager at Smarterer, a Google-funded startup also based in Boston. Additionally, she is a proud former co-founding team member at The DoBand Campaign, a social media startup currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She has an extensive history working and interning for public relations and reputation communications at a number of award-winning agencies, including Fleishman-Hillard London, The CHT Group (formerly Bell Pottinger USA) and Morrissey & Co. Alison has also held internships in special events, marketing and business development roles.
Alison is an avid blogger, writer and event host, and is actively involved in the social media and tech startup communities. She has been featured in Mashable! and ABC Tech news for her social media accomplishments, and has been invited to speak on communications and social media panels in Boston.Specialties: Creative marketing and communications planning, writing and editing, extensive competitor and industry analyses, new and emerging media strategy and management, new business research and pitching, media relations, partnership relationship management.Experience- Feb 2012 - PresentContent, User Acquisition, Partnerships / Spring Partners // springpad
- Jul 2011 - Feb 2012Community Manager / SmartererSmarterer tests and scores people on their digital, social, and technical skills – from Excel and Powerpoint to Google Analytics, Salesforce.com, and Javascript – using crowdsourced test design and a scoring algorithm similar to the one developed to rank chess masters. Users take tests and get a badges that represents their skill level and are designed to be shared anywhere they express their professional identity (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogging platforms, resumes, etc.). Smarterer's goal is to enable people to validate their skills and show the world what they know. Smarterer is funded by true Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from angels including Mark Gerson, Shikhar Ghosh, Scott Kurnit, Peter Lehrman, Thomas Lehrman, and Dharmesh Shah, among others.
- Jun 2010 - Jul 2011Account Executive / The CHT Group (formerly Bell Pottinger US)Account Executive: June 2011 - July 2011 Account Coordinator: June 2010 - June 2011 Responsibilities included: Supporting senior staff; coordinating projects and preparing status reports; Reading, identifying and compiling client media coverage; Identifying appropriate editors and reporters for upcoming pitches; Conducting strategic media relations; Contributing to the writing of pitch letters, press releases, and product fact sheets. Clients spanned the healthcare, insurance, business services and consumer sectors.
- Nov 2010 - Jun 2011Co-Founding Team Member, Communication and Marketing / The DoBand CampaignDoBand is an action-oriented social network that uses gaming dynamics and social reinforcement to encourage users to set and achieve goals. We're developing human potential into a universal framework for action. Board of Advisors includes Dave Blakely, Director of Technology Strategy at IDEO, Andy Mutz, technologist and veteran of four successful Silicon Valley startups, Peter Farrell, Founder and Executive Chairman of ResMed Inc., Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and Shahriar Broumand, former executive at Free Markets, Ariba, and RBS, now managing partner of supply-chain and operations consultancy firm BrainNet.
- Jan 2010 - Apr 2010Reputation Communications Intern / Morrissey & CompanyResponsibilities included weekly media and activity reports, client and industry research and analyses, extensive content editing, media and forward feature list development. Contributed to intra-agency social media planning: platform research, online presence planning, competitive and industry analyses, blog management and post development. Client portfolio included: Sappi Fine Paper, Safety Insurance, American Dental Partners, Berkshire Bank
- Oct 2009 - Dec 2009Corporate & Financial Communications Intern / Fleishman-HillardWorked exclusively with the Corporate Communications and Issues Management team in the Fleishman-Hillard London office. Daily client work included media clipping, media list compilation, white paper contribution, project brainstorms, international media pitching, editorial calendar development, thought leadership planning. Worked extensively with the new business team on messaging synthesis, in-depth competitor analyses, organic growth brainstorming, creative pitch and RFP development. International client portfolio included McCain Foods, British Airways, e2v, Citadel Capital, SOS International, Knight Capital Group, Women’s Tennis Association.
- May 2009 - Aug 2009Special Events Intern / Conventures, Inc.Assisted with event coordination, database management, promotions research, volunteer recruitment, coordination of event logistics and, of course, on-site event work. Events worked on include Sail Boston 2009, American Heart Association Start! Heart Walk, Irish Immigration Solas Awards Dinner, Adopt a Student Foundation Golf Tournament, etc.
- Sept 2007 - Aug 2009Office of Alumni Relations Office Assistant / Boston University
- Jan 2009 - May 2009Account Director / PRSSAgency (Part of PR Student Society of America)
- Mar 2008 - Nov 2008Marketing, PR, Events Intern / Portobello Road
- May 2007 - Sept 2007Summer Office Intern / Klampe, Delehanty and Morris, LLC
Education-
2006 - 2010Boston UniversityBachelor of Science in Communication in Public Relations, Art History
Activities: College of Communication Student Government (COMSA), Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), College of Communication Student Ambassadors -
2002 - 2006Mayo High School
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- @erinmharris I don't -- that's an absolutely inexcusable mistake
- Oh @BostInno, you guys crack me up: http://t.co/Rb9OxpPZ Thanks for making working late into the evening a little more awesome.
- Such exciting news for the @Promoboxx crew: http://t.co/8I9vLjEs So happy for you guys!
- @graphics_diva Glad you're liking it :) @springpad
- @onyimanick Sounds awesome -- let me know how I can help! You can reach me here: alison@springpad.com @springpad
- @santoroski Should be interesting. I hate their current UI, but if they can clean it up, it could be pretty awesome. @gordon_ryan
- Interesting... Bitly is relaunching its site as a social bookmarking aggregator a la Delicious or Pinterest: http://t.co/T7mXMB1i
- Brilliant: Street Art Reminds Us What True Beauty Is: Photoshop http://t.co/ueJTx74j via @FastCoExist
- Aggressive choice of the day: listening to Die Antwoord before noon. ♫ Ten$ion http://t.co/VHLgHuVy #Spotify
- Ohhh @bullyboybooze #spkez event this weekend, I am excited for youuuu.
- OH in my apartment: it's froyo, it's good for you. #LiesWeTellOurselves
- I'm at Trident Booksellers & Cafe (Boston, MA) w/ 3 others http://t.co/8IxeJkdQ
- Oh @GOOD, I love you so. http://t.co/MGmb5NME
- Move to Boston! Move to Boston! “@themarissagreen: Move to Boston so we can all frollick "@donk2: @themarissagreen @alisonmorris jealous."”
- If you drink a whole bottle of @skinnygirlCKLTS are you still fit and fabulous? @bethenny? Cc @themarissagreen @alimcananey
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LIVING
LIVING- Boston, MA, United States
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Checkins
- Trident Booksellers & Cafe338 Newbury St.
- Joe's American Bar and Grille100 Atlantic Ave
- Miracle of Science Bar & Grill321 Massachusetts Ave.
- The Salty Pig130 Dartmouth St.
- Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar1310 Boylston St
- The Living Room101 Atlantic Ave.
- Lord Hobo92 Hampshire St.
- Le Pain Quotidien801 Broadway
- Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 5th Ave.
- Venticinque162 5th Ave
- The Dove Parlour228 Thompson St
- Home Restaurant20 Cornelia St
- Grey Dog Cafe90 University Pl.
- Egg135 N 5th St.
- Clerys113 Dartmouth St.
- Eastern Standard Kitchen528 Commonwealth Ave
- Eastern Standard Kitchen528 Commonwealth Ave
- Back Bay Social Club867 Boylston St.
- Royale Nightclub279 Tremont St
- Stella1525 Washington St
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Classic Resin Inn
SUPER Summer 2012This Summer SUPER rolls out the next chapter in the VISIVA series, revisiting the hand-crafted prints seen in Spring taken from 70’s and 80’s beach postcards, scientific illustrations and tropical-themed photos. The Summer outing of the VISIVA range sees the same retro-kitsch prints revived on a top-notch resin crystal acetate.
need this whole collection.
I found this little shop called Wolfgang in Jacksonville about a month back. They sell brilliant menswear and motorcycles and lots of things we all want (via Instagram)
by Tim Parks for The New York Review of Books
In this regard it’s worth noting that stories were not always obliged to have an end, or to keep the same ending…It was only when myth became history, as it were, that we began to feel there should be just one “proper” version, and set about forgetting the alternatives. With novels, the endings I’m least disappointed with are those that encourage the reader to believe that the story might very easily have taken a completely different turn…There is a tyranny about our thrall to endings. I don’t doubt I would have a lower opinion of many of the novels I haven’t finished if I had.
Brunching in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Every time I’m in New York, it draws me a bit close. Ah, clever city.
Days go by. Sometimes you indulge in dreaming about the possibilities of this idea, and other times you trap yourself in the impossibilities of it. Every day you try to rid yourself of it, to distract yourself with more eating or working or jogging, with other ideas to which your heart won’t hopelessly attach itself. When that doesn’t work, you surrender just a little bit and try to think of ways you could follow through on this idea without risking as much as you thought you’d have to.
“What Really Happens When You Don’t Follow Your Heart”
Thought Catalog
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