Virginia Backaitis

Montclair, NJ USA
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Professional Experience

I'm a well-published freelancer and blogger who writes about Big Data, Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration, social media, digital technologies, and jobs. I write for some of the world's most widely read publications, both print and online.. I aim to cover the news in ways that are both substantive and engaging and offer takeaways to my readers. I have been quoted in books about web 2.0 technologies and the workplace and have served as a judge in technology competititions. I am also an entrepreneur who has owned an executive search and consulting firm for more than twenty years.

Expertise

Reporter
11 Years
Writer
20 Years
Social Media
10 Years

Specialty

Business (general)
10 Years
Technology
10 Years
Entrepreneurship
10 Years

Industries


Online/new media
10 Years
Newspaper - National
10 Years
Professional Journal
3 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

10 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

CMSWire (10+), New York Post (10+), Various Websites (10+), Ghost Writing (10+)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

New York Post (10+), CMSWire (6-10), technology executive ghost writing (6-10), Brilliant Leap Blog (10+), Women Who Write (10+), Goldfinch

Other Work History

Executive Search and Consulting Spinning Instructor

Technical Skills

Final Cut

Foreign Language Skills

Lithuanian

Computer Skills

Microsoft Word, Moveable Type, SiteCore, Typepad, Wordpress

Equipment

PC's Video Camera

References

Upon Request

Associations

Media Bistro

Showcase

"Articles"

Documentum Who? A Peek Into EMC\'s New ECM
(CMSWire 1/25/2016)
It’s been a long time coming, but EMC’s new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution is within sight.
Gartner Rates These Companies the Best in Advanced Analytics
(CMSWire 9/5/2016)
Brace yourself: the Gartner analysts who penned this year’s Advanced Analytics Platforms Magic Quadrant (MQ) expect companies that compete using advanced analytics and proprietary algorithms will disrupt entire industries by 2018.
Reaching Beyond Hadoop
(CMSWire 3/2/2016)
Interesting idea, data at the tipping point. Not about Hadoop, Spark or other Apache projects, it's what they enable
SAP Brings Advanced Analytics to More Fingertips, Buys Roambi
(CMSWire 2/16/2016)
It’s not too hard to figure out why SAP, which seems to be continuously raising it analytics play, acquired the assets of Roambi, a San Diego, Calif.-based provider of mobile analytics today.
Why MapR Just Shook-Up its Management
(CMSWire 2/24/2016)
MapR probably isn’t the first vendor you think of when you hear “Hadoop” — and that’s just fine with the company’s President, Matt Mills.
Salesforce Wants Reps to Work Smarter
(CMSWire 3/4/2016)
Salespeople obsess about winning. Give them a quota to hit and they’ll start building a plan to bring it in. It might consist of a hit list, ideas about what products to pitch and to whom, a look into their pipelines to see what they might be able to pull forward and so on
Is it OK to Air Work Grievances on Social Media
(NY Post 3/4/2016)
It never occurred to the Brooklyn dad that venting to his social network about how difficult it is to provide the life he wants for his family, in New York City, given his income, could cost him his job — but it did.
Mobility Brings Big Opportunities, Big Concerns
(CMSWire 10/25/2015)
An enterprise mobility strategy is, no doubt paramount and, less than half of the organizations surveyed have one in place.
Can Jive Continue to Differentiate Itself in the Workplace?
(CMSWire 2/24/2016)
Best Career Books of 2015
(NY Post 12/30/2015)

General

To Leave or Not to Leave
(NY Post 8/28/2006)
Back in your daddy's days, loyal employees were rewarded with pensions, promotions, and promises of continuous career development. Today, you're on your own. Here are the Rules of the Road.
Dot.Come-Ons
(NY Post 8/9/2010)
New York's dot.com industry is giving a blissful bump to the city's economy. Companies like Gilt.com, foursquare and SecondMarket are creating jobs as they grow.
Mommy and Me
(New York Post 4/9/2012)
Childless workers’ gripe: picking up slack for parents
Tracking 'Net Gains
(New York Post 10/30/2006)
THE WEB NOW OFFERS JOB SEEKERS MORE USEFUL TOOLS THAN EVER
Hire Ground
(NY Post 2/12/2009)
Job Outllook for 2009
Web of Informants
(NY Post 7/27/2008)
Your future employers and co-workers find out all about you long before the interview.
These Employers are Hiring like Crazy
(NY Post 9/8/2024)
The job market is better than it has been in years....
Wall St. Dead End
(NY Post 9/29/2008)
Your Wall Street job is no more. What to do next.
FlexAppeal
(New York Post 11/12/2007)
What companies are doing to hold on to talented mothers as employees
DotComeback
(NY Post 4/24/2008)
Fueled by colossal changes in media and advertising New York's Internet Industry is born again.