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techies.com

Responsible for an $800,000 annual budget and the content strategy for all Internet information across 39 North American local market Web sites, four cobranded sites (ZDNet, CNET, RedHat, ARC), and techies.com’s corporate Web site. Hired and managed a six-person staff of editors, writers, and an online community manager, as well as freelancers.
  • Conceived of and implemented content, newsletter and online community strategies, generating 250,000 monthly page views and $1/2 million dollars of revenue in their first year.
  • Established editorial plans, standards, systems, procedures, and metrics within one month of employment.
  • Championed for and selected a leading content management system, which automated Web page production to the extent that three departments could be reduced by a headcount of approximately 50 people.
  • Authored technical specifications outlining functional requirements of content management systems.

Editing projects for techies.com:
Among his responsibilities at techies.com, Southgate edited several sections of the Web site, a sample of which appear here.

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ZDnet cobrand


Selected writings for techies.com:
• Strike! There's more than coffee brewing in the Pacific Northwest
Technology workers show growing unrest

• It's the end of the world as we know it

Does artificial life spell an early death to the human species? Two renowned AI experts share their breakthroughs and their fears.

• Cool Jobs: Sysadmin at South Pole
A tech job in the Antarctic is sort of like the TV show Survivor. Just add Linux tools, Cisco routers, and a sunrise shot of tequila after months without light.


David Southgate
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