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Communications specialist with significant experience creating and managing content across various platforms for multiple audiences.
- Editing and writing: Seasoned editor and writer for a respected, independent news magazine.
- Project management: Effective planner, coordinating dozens of contributors and clients to work within the scope, time, and budget of a monthly publication.
- Public relations: Creative communications strategist for hundreds of successful marketing campaigns.
- Content management: CMS professional with significant experience creating and managing websites with WordPress, Joomla, and Movable Type.
- Desktop and web publishing: Layout and design expert, adept with the tools of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Acrobat).
Professional Accomplishments
Managing Editor
Voice Newspapers (1994 – present)
Takoma Park, Md.
voicenewspapers.com
Direct online and print content of three popular news magazines.
- Created and manage an online news site (voicenewspapers.com). Publish daily articles, photographs, and videos relevant to the socially aware communities of lower Montgomery County, Md.
- Write and edit. Research community issues, interview newsmakers, and compose compelling news and features.
- Produce monthly print and tablet (iPad) versions of the Voice. Total print circulation: 50,000.
- Design and distribute electronic publications via email and social media. Inform and engage a variety of audiences—consumers and clients—each week through e-newsletters and RSS feeds. Develop our network and communicate to readers and clients through Facebook and Twitter.
- Manage search engine optimization to draw more than 30,000 unique visitors each month. Utilize web traffic tools such as WordPress SEO, Google Analytics, Yahoo! Site Explorer, and Bing Webmaster.
- Manage story budget and network of writers, photographers, and editors. Lead meetings, assign stories, coordinate tasks, set direction for more than two dozen creative professionals.
- Craft successful marketing campaigns. Have managed hundreds of marketing projects, collaborating with thousands of clients.
- Developed thriving internship program. Have recruited and mentored more than 100 university students in the fields of journalism, design, and photography.
- Report on community issues as a monthly guest on Montgomery Week in Review, a televised news discussion program on Montgomery County Channel 21.
- Founded and organized the Takoma Park Azalea Awards, an annual gala that recognizes community heroes (since 1996).
Adjunct Writing Professor
University of Maryland, University College (2009 – present)
Instruct upper-level university students in the essential elements of effective professional communication: Advanced Technical Writing, Advanced Business Writing, Advanced Writing.
- Focus on plain language, as well as grammar, rhetoric, and document design.
- Engage students through workshops, lectures, and electronic media.
- Nominated for The Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award (2011).
Montgomery College (2011 – present)
Teach the fundamentals of rhetoric and academic writing to students of varied educational backgrounds.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts / English
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
Bachelor of Arts / English Language and Literature
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
- summa cum laude, with 4.0 G.P.A.
- Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
- Golden Key National Honour Society
Bachelor of Arts / Painting and Printmaking
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
- Focused on bold representational imagery through woodcut, drawing, and painting.
MORE
- Linguistically versatile: Competent communicator in Italian and Spanish.
- Grammar maven: Keenly engaged by issues of the English language.
- Tenacious contender: Regularly compete in 10Ks, marathons, and other road races.
- Community organizer: Graduate of IMPACT Silver Spring Community Empowerment Program (2003), a nine-month leadership training program.
- Business leader: Board member of Main Street Takoma, a National Trust affiliate dedicated to preserving the small business community of Old Takoma.
- Civic leader: Past president of the Takoma Foundation (1995-1999), a nonprofit that advances community interests through microgrants. Currently a board member.
- Other: Honored as Takoma Park Citizen of the Year (2006).
To learn more about how Eric Bond can help your organization,
- call 301-768-0060,
- send a message to editor@ericbond.info,
- or use the form below.
Contact Form
» Profile » Professional Accomplishments » Education » More » Contact Information
Profile
Communications specialist with significant experience creating and managing content across various platforms for multiple audiences.
- Editing and writing: Seasoned editor and writer for a respected, independent news magazine.
- Project management: Effective planner, coordinating dozens of contributors and clients to work within the scope, time, and budget of a monthly publication.
- Public relations: Creative communications strategist for hundreds of successful marketing campaigns.
- Content management: CMS professional with significant experience creating and managing websites with WordPress, Joomla, and Movable Type.
- Desktop and web publishing: Layout and design expert, adept with the tools of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Acrobat).
Professional Accomplishments
Managing Editor
Voice Newspapers (1994 – present)
Takoma Park, Md.
voicenewspapers.com
Direct online and print content of three popular news magazines.
- Created and manage an online news site (voicenewspapers.com). Publish daily articles, photographs, and videos relevant to the socially aware communities of lower Montgomery County, Md.
- Write and edit. Research community issues, interview newsmakers, and compose compelling news and features.
- Produce monthly print and tablet (iPad) versions of the Voice. Total print circulation: 50,000.
- Design and distribute electronic publications via email and social media. Inform and engage a variety of audiences—consumers and clients—each week through e-newsletters and RSS feeds. Develop our network and communicate to readers and clients through Facebook and Twitter.
- Manage search engine optimization to draw more than 30,000 unique visitors each month. Utilize web traffic tools such as WordPress SEO, Google Analytics, Yahoo! Site Explorer, and Bing Webmaster.
- Manage story budget and network of writers, photographers, and editors. Lead meetings, assign stories, coordinate tasks, set direction for more than two dozen creative professionals.
- Craft successful marketing campaigns. Have managed hundreds of marketing projects, collaborating with thousands of clients.
- Developed thriving internship program. Have recruited and mentored more than 100 university students in the fields of journalism, design, and photography.
- Report on community issues as a monthly guest on Montgomery Week in Review, a televised news discussion program on Montgomery County Channel 21.
- Founded and organized the Takoma Park Azalea Awards, an annual gala that recognizes community heroes (since 1996).
Adjunct Writing Professor
University of Maryland, University College (2009 – present)
Instruct upper-level university students in the essential elements of effective professional communication: Advanced Technical Writing, Advanced Business Writing, Advanced Writing.
- Focus on plain language, as well as grammar, rhetoric, and document design.
- Engage students through workshops, lectures, and electronic media.
- Nominated for The Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award (2011).
Montgomery College (2011 – present)
Teach the fundamentals of rhetoric and academic writing to students of varied educational backgrounds.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts / English
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
Bachelor of Arts / English Language and Literature
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
- summa cum laude, with 4.0 G.P.A.
- Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
- Golden Key National Honour Society
Bachelor of Arts / Painting and Printmaking
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
- Focused on bold representational imagery through woodcut, drawing, and painting.
MORE
- Linguistically versatile: Competent communicator in Italian and Spanish.
- Grammar maven: Keenly engaged by issues of the English language.
- Tenacious contender: Regularly compete in 10Ks, marathons, and other road races.
- Community organizer: Graduate of IMPACT Silver Spring Community Empowerment Program (2003), a nine-month leadership training program.
- Business leader: Board member of Main Street Takoma, a National Trust affiliate dedicated to preserving the small business community of Old Takoma.
- Civic leader: Past president of the Takoma Foundation (1995-1999), a nonprofit that advances community interests through microgrants. Currently a board member.
- Other: Honored as Takoma Park Citizen of the Year (2006).
To learn more about how Eric Bond can help your organization,
- call 301-768-0060,
- send a message to editor@ericbond.info,
- or use the form below.