Keywords
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite and LibreOffice Suite
- Google Docs/Drive with creation and use of spreadsheets, text documents and presentations.
- Word processing with track changes
- Spreadsheets with Excel and Calc
- PowerPoint creation and editing
- Ebook editing/viewing with Calibre and Sigil
- PDF-XChange Editor
- Ableword
- Blogger
- Drupal with member account administration and editing rights. Account administration with creating user accounts and preparing video, promotional and text content for publication.
- WordPress with blogging.
- SEO with WordPress Yoast SEO meta-tagging plugin for SEO, title tag optimization, meta descriptions, and h1 tag optimization.
- GIMP, a free Photoshop software replacement
- Draw and Impress for graphics (LibreOffice Suite)
- Associated Press Style
- Chicago Manual of Style
- American Psychological Association Style
- JabRef bibliography software
- Zotero bibliography software
- Basecamp and Freecamp as project management platforms.
- BlueFish
- BlueGriffon
Reading, writing, and proofreading French.
Script Editing
Trelby, an open source scripting software that imports screenplay formatted text, Final Draft XML (.fdx), Celtx (.celtx), Fountain (.fountain), Adobe Story (.astx) and Fade In Pro (.fadein). It exports in PDF, formatted text, HTML, RTF, Final Draft XML (.fdx) and Fountain (.fountain).
Video Editing
- Various open-source video editing applications.
- Audio Editing
- Audacity, an audio editing tool
Project history
- Law Writer with work in writing about limited partnerships, patent law, real estate law, tax law.
- Business Writer with work in business entrepreneurship, human resources, marketing with focus on service industries, pension funds.
- Ideation Creator with work in ideated automotive blogs using Google Spreadsheets with light experience in testing URL security and giving minor technical advice on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.
- Human Resources Writer for Indeed.com, writing about career changes, career education and salaries.
Associated Press style copyediting, fact-checking and proofreading in British and American English for a website focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, social media, climate change, gaming, medicine, tech entrepreneurship, VC funding, and transhumanism.
Use of Drupal for formatting, tagging and uploading articles for publication. Managing and posting event listings on tight deadlines. Bug hunting and ticketing of CMS issues for technical staff. Selecting images from image databases. Light photo editing and cropping with The GIMP, an open source image editing program. Flagging rights permissions such as copyright infringement and potential violation of model contracts for technical staff and writers.
Researched contemporary and historical writers. Wrote biographical articles and literary summaries for a humanities database. Used MLA 8 style and bibliography software to format citations.
Researched and wrote test assessments in English literature for K-12 students. Writer of short fiction and nonfiction passages as reading comprehension content for test questions.
Wrote B2C legal content about workplace accidents, medical malpractice and injury, and automobile injury. Created content about property law and injury, divorce and child custody, and product liability and injury. Writer for property maintenance articles.
Beta tested a website for user interface, content, and functionality. Wrote short stories to test a content management system. Tested site on different browsers for browser compatibility.
Wrote fashion, food, lifestyle and sports content for a consumer audience including product listicles for holiday shopping. Created content about health including difficult subjects such as mental health with sensitivity and clinical accuracy.
Reviewed websites about entertainment (computer games and technology), fashion, medicine, politics, sports. The review perimeters were content, design and color scheme, functionality, navigation and structure, and interactive content (social networking, e-mail communication, chat)