mattbrawn

Planning and implementing Community Outreach Strategy for both the global and North America Push N900 projects based around hacking and developing the Nokia N900. [http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/] Also developed Community Outreach Strategy for Push N8 [http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn8] and Push Snowboarding [http://pushsnowboarding.com] Regular contributor to niche forums, engaging and developing the community alongside being main point of contact for the participating teams and inquiring members of the community. Created daily copy for the website/blog and managed associated social media channels - increasing followers/friends consistently. Projects have received variety of mainstream press, including Engadget, Gizmodo, HackADay, PCMag and MAKE:Online.

Managed and curated Current’s social news and information website, http://current.com. Sourcing articles and writing content on a variety of topics and issues relevant to a young demographic and then syndicating on a number of social media platforms. Helped launch two cross-platform Internet > TV shows, Current:News and Upstream. For both shows, the daily workflow included in-depth research of stories going to air, sourcing and compiling stories, working in ‘real-time’ updating breaking news as well as managing the ‘picked for TV’ assets such as user’s comments and ‘tweets’ on TV, as well as nurturing and developing the associated online communities. Whilst working as the Online Editor/Producer for Upstream, the tech, gaming, movies and weird science show, responsibilities included presenting a daily editorial meeting to a small team, highlighting all suitable content available for the show and assisting in script writing/editing. Proven research skills were imperative to ensuring broadcasts were factually correct, legally sound under the ‘Fair Dealing’ constraints and both interesting and engaging to a young demographic audience.

2:1 in Media Studies w/Creative Arts

Activities: New Music Society