Oregon bound; hard to reach for a while
13:49, 25 July 2009
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As of Monday morning (maybe Tuesday) I'll start a long, meandering road trip from Louisville, Kentucky to Portland, Oregon, where I'm relocating permanently with my family. I will check email every few days; I'll be able to check email several times a day starting around August 10. Subscribe to the blog you are reading now via RSS or subscribe to my email newsletter, Tech4Impact, for updates on my location and availability.
It's been a wonderful time in Louisville, Kentucky, getting re-acquainted with living in the USA since April of this year and getting to know a part of my native state I had mostly just driven through. If you ever have a chance to visit the area, or if you are looking for something unique to experience, I highly recommend you come to Louisville and visit the surrounding area as well (Mammoth Cave, Maker's Mark Distillery, etc.). If it weren't so hot here in the summers, we might have stayed! (We melt in Kentucky summer heat, and were thankful for the coolest July on record).
I'm still consulting, but would like to find a permanent, full-time position. I would most like to do the following (and have the qualifications for such):
- manage/direct a program at a nonprofit, university or government agency. The dream job would be one that is focused on women, the environment, international development, mass transit, or anything that helps a specific community.
- direct marketing and public relations activities for a major project or program at a nonprofit, university or government agency. Again, the dream job would be one that is related to any of these aforementioned subjects.
- public information officer for a liberal arts college with several international programs
- marketing director for the continuing education/adult education program at a university
- coordinator of a nonprofit-focused program at a state's attorney general's office
- chief communications officer for a division of a large international foundation
- senior writer for program development at a large, international health institute
- directing a program that places media professionals in the developing world to train new journalists
- public affairs specialist at a federal office that manages several international programs
- director of communications in North America for an American university abroad
- public information officer for a conservation district
- media writing and media relations
- public relations (basic public relations functions, outreach to particular audiences, crisis communications, how to address misinformation/misunderstandings, how to deal with public criticism, etc.)
- strategic communications (systematic planning and utilization of a variety of information flows to deliver a message and build credibility or a brand, sell more a)
- cross-platform media and electronic media (using traditional print, synchronous and asynchronous online communications, and emerging technologies effectively, and integrating the use of all information flows)
- public speaking
See you in Portland! (we're also looking for a house to rent; if you think you can help, contact me for more details).
