: About Me

Specialties:

Online communications and marketing, corporate & financial relations, experienced media and business writer across multiple formats. I've been fortunate in having an international career across five countries with wide market-entry and cross-border experience.

Solid consultancy and project management background, career start in metro newspaper journalism. Experienced in marketing and developing businesses online and offline, market entry and cross-border programs.

In-depth experience for 6+ years at the complex intersection of communications, business development and online/viral marketing, media and online publishing, social networking; and digital content creation and delivery.

My passion is ...

where communications and technology meet in the middle

I know too much about ...

sumo wrestling, healthy living and boring celebrities' lives forced down our throats.

My parents always told me ...

When I had nothing good to say, say nothing.

My childhood ambition ...

Ballet dancer

My favorite memory ...

Ice skating in the country.

Why I write ...

It's a huge part of what I do and who I am professionally and personally.

My first job ...

Librarian in a children's library service.

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Pitching Your Story To The Media Or How Not To Have Your Story Binned' Both online or offline, you'll sometimes find yourself steeling yourself to pick up the old-fashioned telephone and dial the media to attempt to interest them in your story. It's something most people find tough to do. Up there in the same league perhaps as public speaking, which is another nerve-wracking ordeal for many business people or non-professionals. And no, you can't rely on emails, with unknown email addresses regularly blocked by spam filters. It's most effective if you have the name of the editor, producer o...

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