Commercial Services
My services include project-managing website redesigns, launching blogs and podcasts, creating 2.0 online identities to further brand goals, writing and editing web copy, and evaluating web workflow within your organization. I serve as the translator between content/corporate and designers/programmers — helping web newbies communicate with folks with technical skills. Contact: laura *at* laurafries *dot* com.
Technical Skill Set
CMS systems; including Saxotech’s Publicus, DesertNet’s Dispatch & Gyrobase, Drillbit, Drillpress
Blogging software; including Movable Type, WordPress, Typepad, Blogger
Front end systems; including Adobe InCopy, InDesign, Quark, MSOffice
Photo editing for the web; using Adobe Photoshop
Text formatting; using html & xml tags, markdown syntax
Web 2.0 applications; including Flickr, del.icio.us, Furl.net, My Yahoo 2.0, MySpace, clipmarks.com, vimeo.com, twitter.com, pownce.com
Project management software; Basecamp
RSS Aggregators; including Bloglines, Pulp Fiction, Netvibes
Editorial Skill Set
Strong editor and reporter, familiar with AP style
Meticulous, detail-oriented project manager from concept to launch
Poynter-trained journalist with traditional newsroom values
2.0 enthusiast with an eye for hybrid business models
Structural, process thinker with creative, solution-oriented mindset
