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.
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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.
• My
Career
information center
• Your
Career archive
• 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.
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