I am, and will be, working on consulting projects during 2009. For more about my areas of expertise, check out Services or contact me.

Representative consulting projects:

2008-09:

• Advisor, Knight News Challenge: Program management & marketing/evangelizing for annual $5MM program in 3rd year, working closely with Knight Foundation Program Director and Staff
• Advisor, Knight Foundation Communities initiative: Reviewer & facilitator
  
• Consultant/Product Development, TechSoup Global, product development and business strategy; led redesign of portal home page and search back end, continue to advise
  
• Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley-business strategy, product plan, RPF, budgets for move to web-based earned income.
• Working with Top 100 media site on social media strategy, landing pages optimization, for their Summer 2009 relaunch.
  
• Facilitator, trainer, Knight Digital Media Center, USC/Annenberg, trainer & coach for News Media Entreprenurs bootcamp, NAM Ethnic Media leadership workshops, other.
  
• Redefining Progress (pro bono): Advising on blogging and social media strategy

Susan has some free handouts and white papers you can check out:

• Social media for social change, We media paper--the brief on using social media for social change, commissioned for the We Media conference, Feb 2009,
  ifocos_wm_socialmedia.pdf
  

• Social Media for Social Causes, detailed case studies of Knight News Challenge, Women Who Tech Telesummit and Twestival for charity: water, done for We Media, March 2009
  309 full social media for social causes white paper.pdf
  
• Basic tools for online media, What you need to get started, Feb. 2009, basics for small online news sites
  Basic tools for online media.pdf
• The social media tool box: Essential tools, tips and framing strategy, white paper for Knight community foundation conference, Feb. 2009
  THE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOL BOX.pdf
• Building your brand through social media, preso done for The Maynard Institute and redone many times since Feb. 2009
  March 2009 build yr brand thru social media.pdf
• Women and the dynamics of social capital, w/Deanna Zandt, done for WAM! as a social media workshop framer, March 2009
  socialcapital-socialmedia-090328095213-phpapp01.pdf
• Glossary for twitter terms: the basics, March 2009 for WAM!
  glossary for twitter terms.pdf
• Getting started with Twitter, why take the leap, Maynard workshop, March 2009 Getting started with Twitter--and why you should take the leap.pdf