I’ve been contracted to Collabforge as a Content & Community Manager since October. It was a three-month contract to begin with, but was extended to continue my work on this federal government project… until it came to a temporary close today.
C&CM is a bit of a mouthful… I essentially spent my time writing and curating content for the site’s blog (some under my moniker, others without my name) related to the economy, public policy, innovation, collaboration, business and technology. Here’s some content to sink your teeth into:
- Innovative app shaking up taxi industry (about luxury car hire phone app Uber… and riots in Paris)
- What Chinese consumers will be eating in 2050 (about, um, what the title says)
- Wash your clothes anywhere (how Berg Cloud created a connected appliance with a hacked washing machine—Google ‘internet of things’)
- Disney hand out over $1,200,000 in seed funding (rich company giving smart people money to make them richer by inventing things)
- Air-powered Lego car funded through Twitter (this one is insane, just read it)
- Thinking outside the box at Adobe (a look at how Adobe runs its innovation unit)
- Who owns the output from hackathons (starring the Sydney Opera House and some bad PR)
Other tasks that fell under my role also included Google Analytics reporting, social media management, online community building, running events, creating EDMs, and some light photography and design work.
The project is on pause for the moment, and it’s a pity because I learnt some interesting/nerdy things. It was such a change from consumer brand marketing. I’ve been lucky enough that Collabforge will still be contracting me for a few days a week doing other writing and marketing, but in the mean time I’m up for some freelance fun times.
Hit me up here if you need a writer on your side! Girl’s gotta pay rent.
