About Curt

Personal

I am the guy who is color from the dye who is smoke from the fire who is smoke from the fire who is shame on me shame on me. I am thankfully married to S. and I live in The Greatest State in the Union™.

Professional

I am a journalist and communications director with over a decade of experience finding stuff out, writing it up and getting it to people in the form that’s best for the content and its audience. I have a deep affection for both carving lines in stone with a chisel and blipping and honking my way into the social media maelstrom. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Know what I’m saying?

I am currently the Social Media Marketing Manager for GarageGames.

My strengths include a deep knowledge of communications technologies, messaging, understanding and communicating with a target audience, marketing copy creation, content process and web architecture.

I have led and implemented projects, developed and supervised teams and content departments for Ask.com, Autoweb, Elance, Entopia, Visa and others. I have assessed communication needs and produced written strategy plans, assembled personnel and resources, set dates and work budgets, led meetings and brainstorming sessions, written style guides and taglines, acted as liaison to senior management, solicited and elicited messaging ideas from stakeholders and supervised the work of staffers and freelancers.

I am also an experienced journalist with credits in Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Salon, Los Angeles Times, National Post, New Times, Seattle Times, Reuters and others.

Finally, I have extensive experience in social media. I am a blogger at Morpheme Tales. I am the founder and director of the non-profit Committee to Protect Bloggers, was the project director of Spirit of America’s Anonymous Blogging Campaign, BlogSafer and I developed the Zimbabwean democracy blog Enough is Enough.

I have been interviewed, sourced, quoted and invited to write on blogging, employment and human rights issues by the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Village Voice, National Post, PRI’s The World, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5, Oakland Tribune, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacromento Bee, National Law Review, American Bar Association Journal, Overseas Press Club of America, Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Foreign Policy, The Jersusalem Report, Time, Columbia Journalism Review, CNET and many others