Resume

Elizabeth Edwardsen
207 799-6486 | eke@maine.rr.com
15 Pine Street, South Portland, Maine 04106

SKILLS
Quality writing, editing and content management for web sites and consumer, custom published and trade magazines, as well as for commercial and non-profit clients.

I’m fast and reliable. I’m a pro at tracking down sources and explaining confusing topics in easy-to-understand language.

For web work, I’m skilled at search engine optimization, and I understand how users read online content. I also understand how SEO and social media tactics can increase site visits.

As an editor in online and traditional formats, I love harnessing and organizing large quantities of information. I can give a site or publication its voice, direct its content and style, guide employees and freelancers, and work with budgets, spreadsheets and content management systems.

I am proficient in AP, Chicago and AMA styles, I rock Radiant6, Scout Labs and several content management systems and have helped clients develop their own styles.

EXPERIENCE

Freelance. 1998-2010.

From 140-character tweets to a 150,000-word book, my freelance writing has been diverse.

Since 2009, I’ve been a social media contractor at The VIA Group, assisting clients navigate Twitter, YouTube and other social media channels.

From April 2007 to October 2008, I was the editor of a web site for dog lovers, FetchDog.com.

As FetchDog’s editor, I assessed content partnerships, wrote and edited SEO copy, assigned freelance and staff articles, edited and posted blog posts, collaborated on marketing e-mails and edited the close to 2,000 articles on the site at launch.

I’ve also done a variety of magazine work, including pieces for Good Housekeeping, Parenting and several trade and custom-published magazines. I’m a Maine stringer for The New York Times. I wrote  The Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Maine Coast, had an OpEd piece in the Los Angeles Times, contributed interviews to several Hundreds of Heads books, done corporate copy writing and needs analyses for corporations, health-care companies and non-profits, served as acting communications director for a health-care company, and written several white papers on innovative newspaper strategies for the Newspaper Association of America. I am currently helping two clients develop and organize new web sites.

The Associated Press. 1986-1998.
Concord, N.H., Albany, N.Y., and Portland, Maine.
My 12 years at The Associated Press included five years covering politics, health, the environment and criminal justice at the New York state Capitol. I was promoted to Correspondent in Charge in the state of Maine, where I oversaw a staff and freelancer network and managed a busy news desk while writing and editing AP news, business, feature and sports copy.

The Forecaster
Managing Editor, 2002-2004
Falmouth, Maine
At The Forecaster, I edited three weekly newspapers that covered Greater Portland, editing copy, working with writers and helping the paper grow in both efficiency and circulation.

EDUCATION
Washington College, Chestertown, MD. BA Philosophy. 1982.
The American University, Washington, DC. MA Communications. 1985.

Elizabeth Edwardsen: eke@maine.rr.com | 207 799-6486