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11/19/2015 Know to Grow: A Discussion on Digital Portfolios

 

A Discussion on Digital Portfolios

 
 
    
 
Join us to discover ways to leverage, build and work your digital portfolio. Learn what works (and what to avoid) from your communication peers. Featuring Meredith Barnett, Karen M. Cazares, and Hayley Harding.

Meredith Barnett is a wordsmith on a mission to craft and curate fresh education stories. As online communications specialist at CASE—The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, she creates online content and manages social media strategy and implementation. She’s written for and led communications projects at several education associations, and served with AmeriCorps in Rockport, Maine, directing middle school girls’ book clubs. In 2009, she graduated from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Her spare time is devoted to running, mentoring an eighth grader, and attempting to ace final “Jeopardy.” Follow her on Twitter at @mer_barnett, find her on LinkedIn, or visit her portfolio to learn more!

Karen M. Cazares is an award-winning public relations and marketing consultant in Los Angeles who specializes in capturing a company’s vision with the written word, mutually beneficial partnering, and detailed project management for small and mid-size businesses, non-profits and female entrepreneurs. Her account and writing experience spans travel, fashion, arts & entertainment, restaurants & hotels, high tech, health & beauty, and education, Her clients have included: Bobbe, a Los Angeles-based designer tennis wear line; The Sanctuary Resort in Costa Rica, for which she earned a Los Angeles American Advertising Award; Layne’s Legacy, a non-profit who assists families of hospitalized children; Senor Salsa, a Mexican fusion restaurant selected one of the Best 50 restaurant in the U.S.; and the Institute for Astronomy, overseers of the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii. Find her on LinkedIn or visit her portfolio to learn more!

Hayley Harding is a student at Ohio University, where she studies journalism and political science. She works as the local editor of The New Political, an online publication at Ohio University, and as a freelancer. Hayley is also involved in the Society of Professional Journalists and as a resident assistant. Catch her on Twitter @Hayley__Harding or visit her portfolio to learn more!