Jennifer Neeley Lindsay is a two-time Emmy nominee. She worked at ABC-TV’s San Francisco affiliate for three years where she was senior producer and online journalist, leading to her graduate studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her masters degree.
Prior to being recruited by ABC, she was a pioneer in new media (or emerging media), translating television newscasts into an interactive format for the short-lived start up ReacTV, later called Zatso.
She was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan (check out the best online Chaihana), and later freelance news correspondent in the region; a reporter, producer and executive producer for the CBS affiliate in Fresno, California; an intern for CNN’s San Francisco bureau; published articles and editorials in countless magazines and newspapers, and was a college radio personality in Berkeley and Davis, California as well as Lund, Sweden, where she was an exchange student.
An LBJ Congressional Intern and nationally-ranked debate and individual speech champion, she holds an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, an undergraduate degree with distinction from the English department at University of California at Berkeley and as well as a certificate in acting from the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. She is also an accomplished singer, actor and performer.
She currently lives in in the San Francisco Bay area where she has co-founded ResumeMastery.com (fan us on Facebook), a resume-writing company which partners with small to mid-size recruiting firms and consults with individuals.
She recently left her role as Director of Digital Services at Eastwick Communications. There, she spearheaded all aspects of social media functions and programs.
Now through her own consultancy, Jennifer provides strategic counsel on social media to organizations of all kinds – committed to helping her clients achieve maximum benefit from their social media investment. She is also a prominent speaker at conferences and events, as well as at organizational and educational gatherings, affirming her personal commitment to empower through knowledge. She displays this weekly through her well-regarded and trafficked podcast, The A-List.
Jennifer’s hobbies include acting, singing, dancing, surfing, beading & wirework, watching just about any sport with her lovely English writer/copyeditor/sports-journalist husband, and generally being a ham — which comes as no surprise to those who know her.
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Dear Jennifer,
I’m studying journalism in college and I’ve decided that this is what i want to do with my life. However, I want to travel the world, learn a new language, and grow as a person as well. I see the Peace Corps as a way to get into journalism. I’d become an expert in an area of the world and I’ll understand the issues facing its people. This sounds great if I wanted to be a foreign correspondent or some sort.
I’d like to know if you think the Peace Corps will present difficulties for me getting into journalism. I’m graduating next May, and I’ve only had limited work experience in journalism. Would it be better to get experience in journalism and then take time as you did?
Dear Jennifer,
The Internet has transformed how we communicate with the public, but there are still many challenges in making information easy to find. Since you cover web 2.0 in Been Jennifered Today?, I thought you might be interested in a study that my nonprofit published this summer about how people find information online. The study covers three groups: non-profit organizations and cities; web designers and firms; and the general public.
The study was fascinating on a number of levels, and I invite you to read the executive summary or download a PDF of the findings at http://www.idea.org/find-information.html .
The survey results sparked ideas about tools we could provide that might make finding information online easier. This fall, we will start beta testing a cool new new navigational tool. I don’t have your email, so if you are interested, you can sign up for our beta here: http://www.spicynodes.org/ or to stay abreast of our (very) occasional new projects, you can get our newsletter here: http://www.idea.org/newsletter.html
Thanks,
Michael