I'm an award-winning professional writer and editor in love with all things digital and print, from magazines and newsletters to e-newsletters, digital editions, and blogs/social media. Throw in a few webinars, online communities, and conference content planning—it's all good.

• I thrive on carefully crafting content and setting it free, be it late-breaking news and in-depth articles, or graphics/infographics, audio, or video.

• Building community through blogs and social networks—yes please!

• Been assigning, developing, editing, and copyediting features, news, editorials, and columns for 20+ years

• I've been working with desktop publishing and website design/redesign/maintenance for almost as long as we've had the tools: Quark, InDesign, html, some Photoshop and audio/video editing, content management systems.

• Rounding up the best thought leaders for webinars and live conferences is also on my agenda.

In those rare times I'm not chained to my keyboard, I like to hike the woods with Mango the Australian shepherd. I also paint pet portraits, sail (that's me on an America's Cup boat in Aukland Harbor), read like a voracious honey badger (if a honey badger could read, that is), and live life to its absolute fullest.