Kate Kotler’s resume

Kate Kotler, aka “Adorkable Grrl”

Skills: Proficient in all current applications for both Mac and PC. Intermediate user of Photoshop, PowerPoint & Excel. Extremely proficient social networker, utilizing on a daily basis Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr, Ning, Google Documents, Analytics and multiple IM integration clients. Amazingly talented researcher, great at multitasking, proficient in AP Style. Pretty damn good editor. Friendly and very outgoing.

Appearances on/Quoted by: Good Morning America (“James Kim, A Father’s Legacy” – January 2008), The New York Times (“Returning With Grace, to a Painful Place” – December 2009), Associated Press (“Kati Kim returns to site of snowbound ordeal” – December 2009), NBC News Online (“Snowbound Kim family retraces steps” – December 2009), Grants Pass Daily Courier (“Kim family makes poignant return to site of stranding” – December 2009), Bubbly & Banter podcast (pending), Upcoming Broke-Ass travel book by Stuart Schuffman (publish pending, 2010)

Published interviews: Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Ross, Gail Simone, Hope Larson, Anthony Del Col, Connor McCreery, Andy Belanger, Joe Harris, Marc Andreyko (for Geek Girl on the Street).  Jonathan Ross, Leah Peterson, Brittney Powell,  Jessica Halem, Ms. Bees Knees, Stuart Schuffman (for BitchBuzz).  Kati Kim, Lauren Grasch, Cera Byer, Dr. Nancy D. Padak (for DollyMix).  Heather Gold (for Creative Humans magazine).

Geek Girl on the Street
January 2010 to present
Founder, Editor-in-Chief

• Is responsible for developing the over reaching artistic goals for Geek Girl on the Street.
• Is responsible for strategic and tactical planning for a growing online publication focused on “geek culture” content.
• Writes and edits 3-10 articles weekly for publication.
• Manages staff of two editors and seven contributing writers.

Creative Humans magazine
January 2010 to present
Contributing writer

• Contributes an article per publication based on theme and topic for each issue.

BitchBuzz
July 2008 – January 2010
Columnist, Women to Watch
Technology Contributor

• Author of bi-monthly column highlighting interesting and notable women. (Interview format)
• Contributes between two and five articles weekly on the topic of geek culture, social media and womens issues in the technology field.

Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Website
July 2009 – January 2010
Columnist, DIY Diva

• Author of weekly column focusing on providing crafts, how-to instructive and top tips for a 20-40 year old, urban demographic.

Fray Quarterly
Ongoing contributor

• Author of “Bunk Bed Rock” for Fray: Busted! issue (2007)
• Author of “The True Confessions of a Professional Fire Eater” for Fray: Geek issue (2008)

DollyMix
July 2007 – July 2008
Columnist, Femina Potens

• Author of weekly column highlighting the accomplishments of notable women. (Interview format)
• Exclusive interview with Kati Kim; and, subsequent appearance on Good Morning America to evangelize the James Kim Technology Foundation.

RealMental.org
November 2009
Guest writer (under pen name, Muriel Lipke)

• Author of “Five Year Cycle,” a three part series on dealing with mental illness.

Related Work Experience:

Demand Studios
Content/marketing writer
December 2009 – present

• Writes short freelance informative/how-to articles on specific consumer topics for Demand Studios clients including eHow, Decision.com and Answerbag.

Ghostwriter/Researcher – Nowhere Warm by Kati Kim
August 2009 – December 2009

• Provided book proposal, book outline, timeline of events, sample chapters and comprehensive research for non-fiction account (working title, Nowhere Warm) of the events surrounding the Kim family’s disappearance into the Oregon wilderness, the subsequent rescue of Kati Kim and her daughters, and death of James Kim (CNET senior editor)in November/December 2006.

Donnerwood Media, Inc.
October 2007-October 2008
Content & Community Manger, Meez.com

• Managed staff of 10 community administrators in ensuring that the TOS were followed and that constructive discipline was applied to users breaking the “rulz.”
• Prevented trolls, griefers and large scale spam attacks on the forums of Meez.com via progressive Internet security practices.
• Responded to parental concerns and complaints.
• Was a positive role model and “safe adult” for teens to talk to about their day-to-day life and problems.
• Responsible for creation of written and visual editorial content on Meez.com, a social entertainment website designed for teens.
• Responsible for writing editorial, creating visual content and programming newsletter into third party email marketer to send to approximately 307,000 users weekly.
• Managed internally created online contests and promotions for company and advertising partners.

SHIFT Communications, LLC
November 2006 – May2007
Public Relations Intern

• Worked to secure new business. In particular was responsible for researching, approaching and pitching Yelp.com.
• Worked on several clients maintaining media lists and providing clip books of applicable coverage.
• Pitched bloggers and independent media sources to cover clients.

Professional references available upon request, via email.