Hi. I'm Mark.
I'm a product manager at ABC News.
I also write at my own blog, ride a bike too fast, listen to too much music (and over-analyze it), drink too much coffee, and act ridiculous all over the world.
I network here, Tumbl here, and Tweet here, and I'd like to be this guy. Oh yeah, I have a dog named Mogwai.
You can see my resumé here.
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- Summary
Extend a career rooted in the promotion of new publishing and media technologies as well as user-
and data-focused digital product management.Specialties: New product development, digital project management, edit planning, SEO optimization, advising on optimization of online user experiences (mobile experience included), crafting edgy edit.
Experience- Mar 2012 - PresentProduct Manager / ABC News
Create and manage new products centered around cross-promotion of online and television network coverage. Focus on special news events, new media, social media, and reciprocal promotion for cohesive experiences.
- May 2010 - Feb 2012Assistant Brand Editor / Rodale, Inc. Men's Health
Description: New product development; 3rd party developer relations; New Media manage-
ment across a variety of brand extensions including creation of new tablet edition and man-
aging new editorial workflows; Blog and online editorial content organization and creation.
Extensive site and mobile app wireframing experience. Portfolio of over 25 apps (paid, free, &
upsell), on multiple platforms, with total downloads exceeding 3 million. Managed a low-lift,
high volume daily video production unit. - Sept 2009 - May 2010Online Content Producer / Condé Nast Publications
Organization and management of social networking initiatives. Created new
strategies and workflows based on regular metric reporting with a focus on user interaction and
proprietary content aggregation. Daily TeamSite (CMS), FTP work, light coding, and produc-
tion/project management. - Jan 2008 - Sept 2009Associate Music Editor / HeaveMedia
Description: Copy development, copy editing, content development for a rapidly growing and
profitable online music and culture site. Feature writing, acquiring interview opportunities, copy
editing, and completion at strict deadlines all critical. - Aug 2008 - Oct 2008Assistant Digital Marketing Coordinator / Penguin Publishing Group
Assisted Digital Marketing Coordinator in upkeep and maintenance of all Penguin
Publishing Group's online endeavors. Inclusive of blogs, podcasts, feature sites, digital store-
fronts, and reading group database management. - Jan 2008 - May 2008Editorial Intern / This Old House Magazine
January 2008 June 2008
Description: Assisted Editorial and Assistant Editorial staff in research, product review, customer feedback
operations, and other editorial staff duties. Experience includes published works inclusive of captions, product
galleries, and full stories for the magazine and online components. - Sept 2007 - Dec 2007Production Intern / Brant Publications
Advertising Production Intern
Assisted with all Ad Production activities including FileMaker Pro experience, Color correction, liaising with advertisers, and layout production.
Education-
2007 - 2009New York UniversityDegree: Master of Science in Digital and Periodical Publishing
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2003 - 2007University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDegree: Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing
Activities: English and Rhetoric Club - Officer, Photography Club - President, Dean's List (4 years) -
2003 - 2007University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDegree: Bachelor of Arts in English
- AreaEnglish & Creative Writing
Additional Information-
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Interests:New media, bikes, travel, creating things that make sense.
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Tweets
- Photo: Cycling in the Chicago burbs is a bit different than Brooklyn. (at Ned Brown Forest Preserve (Busse... http://t.co/GQDruSMhIC
- Photo: Hail Sagan! You know you’re in Brooklyn when… http://t.co/dkFyOOxcDm
- My parents are REALLY excited that there’s an Indigo bunting bird at our bird feeder. #SuburbLyfe
- @brettharmon is making me listen to Nelly while I’m in Indiana and basically life is the worst.
- “I feel like we’re driving through a developing nation.” @brettharmon as we speed along I-80 in Indiana.
- Photo: mogwaithedog: #mogwaithedog ‘s first Wendy’s. by brettharmon http://t.co/nlcSIoZ51t http://t.co/tlTb0p42j9
- Photo: #mogwaithedog is the Simba of the eastern U.S. http://t.co/fRt4kn8n21
- “Your dog has farted, I think… or that’s the Bronx.” @brettharmon
- @libbybrittain I got one once. But it was in Chicago where all liquor comes in all bulk forms.
- RT @brettharmon: Started from the bottom now you're rapping along with the radio in your mom's Nissan Altima.
- My veterinarian emailed me about inviting me to attend his new child's naming ceremony. They included pics. It was weird.
- RT @80sDonDraper: Teenagers want to be everything their parents aren't: mutants, ninjas, but most of all turtles.
- Re: Tumblr/Y! Just like I said last year about the FB IPO and Instagram acqui.: Free platforms must make money. Capitalism 101, folks.
- RT @weareyourfek: You know what was confusing about tonight's Mad Men? The fact that you were watching it, Person With Otherwise Good Taste.
- Well. A dude was jacking off during Star Trek next to me.
- Things my friends say: "i infused a 750ml bottle of gin with beets so i can make negronis all summer. that was a bad idea."
- Just sitting on my porch, listening to “Bleeding Love.” Normal things.
- @jenawithonen She's mine! She used to belong to a friend, but our whole group realized she'd have a better life in my living situation.
- My dog's blog... - If you don’t know, now you know: http://t.co/qEl5SeWYkx Hashtag your instagram with... http://t.co/CrCr3qHxd5
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Posts
Cycling in the Chicago burbs is a bit different than Brooklyn. (at Ned Brown Forest Preserve (Busse Woods))
Driving this dog across the country. #mogwaithedog by brettharmon http://bit.ly/18jiA9q
About to go on a road trip with this thing.
- My dog's blog...
If you don’t know, now you know:
Hashtag your instagram with “mogwaithedog” and your pic will appear on the blog, too.
Adult stuff w/ @gracegclarke @naomipiercey @crackliffe and of course @dan_r #landd (at Park Avenue Christian Church)
Again, please don’t think that I’m giving you moral advice, or that I’m saying you’re “supposed to” think this way, or that anyone expects you to just automatically do it, because it’s hard, it takes will and mental effort, and if you’re like me, some days you won’t be able to do it, or you just flat-out won’t want to. But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her little child in the checkout line - maybe she’s not usually like this; maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of her husband who’s dying of bone cancer, or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the Motor Vehicles Dept who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a nightmarish red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible - it just depends on what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren’t pointless and annoying. But if you’ve really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff’s necessarily true: the only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
David Foster Wallace, “This Is Water,” Kenyon College Commencement Speech, 2005Brautigan fastidiously controlled each novel’s jacket, typography, layout, and even promotional materials. Such powers, rarely bestowed on any author, resulted in the Brautigan brand, arguably more famous than anything in the books themselves. The cover photo for Trout Fishing in America is exemplary: in front of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco’s Washington Square Park, Brautigan appears like a Gold Rush prospector, his girlfriend at his side in style. For his friend Keith Abbott, the photo displays “His open, cheerful, confident expression … characteristic of his belief in his prospects, while his blue work shirt displays the uniform of artistic poverty”. The increasingly beautiful girlfriends, who always joined the author on his covers, were integral to his mystique. (via)
All of a sudden very excited that I own original printings with these covers of both of these books.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest- Sunday Morning Ride
Today was fantastically beautiful when I woke up. Took the dog out and promptly hopped in the saddle to do 2 loops in each park. Not as quick as I’d like to be, but I’ll take it, all things considered.
Um. Um.
Via: 66 Behind the Scenes Pics from Empire Strikes Back (where there’s a lot more than just awesome shots of Princess Leia).
Stay rad. Don’t be a wimp!
Mantra for life. Chris Piascik does it again.
- Nine Inch Nails Vs. Carly Rae Jepsen. You’re welcome, world.
(No streaming audio available)1407465 plays - Everything you dream ofIs right in front of youAnd everything is a lieLook me in the eyeAnd tell me that I’m satisfied.
(No streaming audio available)5820 plays - If you aren’t listening to Spiritualized, you are fucking up.
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - Scratch that. Every day is a Boss kind of day.
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - 1 or 2 Sentence Song Reviews Things I Don’t Remember - Ugly Casanova This song is typically what I have to sort through in my head when I’m attempting to write one of the “Things I Don’t Remember” stories. In fact, it was probably listening to this song on repeat and trying to make sense of all the nonsense (which is possible, which is why it’s a good song) that originally got me thinking about attempting to make sense of all of the nonsense in my own head. Things I don’t rememberI figured out what I’m good for:Making anything look bitter.How the hell could I blame her?Even then I was a sailor
(No streaming audio available)1443 plays - surawesome: The Mountain Goats - No Children Happy Valentine’s Day! Perfect.
(No streaming audio available)130 plays - indierawk: Bright Eyes - Lover I Don’t Have To Love. “You write such pretty words, but life’s no story book. Love’s an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.” Happy Valentine’s Day, kinda! To go with the Bright Eyes card.
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