Professional/Personal Overview
I am the founding editor of FamiliesGo!, a growing website launched in 2011. It provides content, tools and consumer reviews to help parents plan and enjoy their family vacations. We have 1,500 monthly users and 1,800 social media followers. I'm skilled at producing and search-engine optmizing editorial, photos and videos online. I can effectively promote content via social media and strategic giveaways and discounts. I've written travel, parenting and lifestyle stories for Fortune, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, TheStreet, Parents, Learnvest and Plenty. I've covered entrepreneurs and start-up funding for Business Week, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., Entrepreneur, Business 2.0 and Upside. I've blogged about my start-up for Inc.com I'm interested in writing and editing projects related to travel, family travel, entrepreneurs or start-up funding.
Work Info
Expertise
Content Editor (online)
4 Years
Editor
13 Years
Writer
20 Years
Specialty
Family, Children & Teenagers
5 Years
Travel
5 Years
Lifestyle
15 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
19 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
FamiliesGo! (11+), Inc.com (11+), Learnvest.com (11+), Reuters (11+)
Other Work History
BOOKS: Wrote: Your Career is an Extreme Sport (Adams Media, 2006). WRITING/EDITING: Contributing editor at AOL Housingwatch, writing service and lifestyle stories related to home ownership (january 2010-April 2011). Wrote the "Home Eco-nomics" column for Thestreet.com (August 2007 - April 2009) NY Post Home: freelance features editor for weekly lifestyle/service section (February 2004 - June 2005); Fortune magazine: Reporter wrote business, lifestyle and service stories for sections and the middle of the book. Contributed to numerous lists and special projects (February 1995 - June 1999).
Computer Skills
Publishing content in Blogsmith and Wordpress. Light coding and working with plug-ins in Wordpress. Tagging and search-engine-optimizing editorial content. Editing photos in Paintbrush and similar applications. Editing videos in iMovie. Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Technical Skills
Have shot, edited, uploaded and embedded videos that run on YouTube and FamiliesGo! Have resized, cropped, credited and uploaded photos to blogging platforms. Editing and publishing rich content in Blogsmith and Wordpress.
Equipment
laptop, digital camera, video camera.
Work Permits & Visas
US passport
References
available on request
Associations
http://www.familiesgotravel.com Twitter: @familiesgo Facebook: www.facebook.com/Familiesgo Pinterest: FamiliesGo! YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/FamiliesGo Newswomen's Club of New York: boardmember 2005-2006 (programming chair). Linked in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eileenpgunn
Other
• BA in journalism (with honors), and English minor, from New York University (1993) • Kauffman Foundation FasTrac (through NYC SBC (2010) • Wharton seminar for business journalists (1995) • ASME intern (1992) • Willing to travel • Skilled at public speaking and media interviews
Freelancer Availability
I occasionally freelance. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
(FamiliesGo! , 9/12/2012)
An archive of stories I've written and edited for the FamiliesGo! blog.
(Learnvest.com , 9/12/2012)
an archive of my recent Learnvest stories.
(Inc.com , 8/17/2012)
An archive of features and first-person blogs I wrote for Inc.com
(FamiliesGo! , 5/29/2012)
A collection of videos produced for FamiliesGo!
(Reuters , 5/25/2012)
5 destinations where the dollar is stretching very well, or at least much better than it used to.
(Reuters , 4/13/2012)
A look at VIP airport services, their cost, what they include and when they're worth it.