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Julia Temlyn's Page
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Another nice example of spam on Ning communities. The Google search results are in, especially on the comment that follows the post.
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 6:31pm on January 20, 2009,
Michael Pinkerton said… - Your profile literally begs the question! (Nice interview with NPR) :)
- At 2:23pm on July 18, 2008,
Amy Pritchard said… - Welcome Julia! wow, what an impressive resume. Though I am afraid to ask what a Bad Birth Control LJ Community is! :)
Profile Information
- About Me:
- NOTE: I'm always looking to further my career in online community building & moderating. Please view my partial resume in the "experience" section.
Julia Temlyn is the owner of Temlyn Writing: freelance writing & editing services, where she works diligently with clients to rescue excess apostrophes, save spliced commas, and repair injured & abused words. She also offers online community managing, moderating, & building services.
Additionally, she is the editor of Musical Reviewer and Writers Remember, and administrator of the Houston Writers & Editors Network.
The highlight of her career thus far? Being interviewed on NPR’s (National Public Radio) The Bryant Park Project as a guest grammarian.
Julia has always been passionate about the written word, and has literally been writing and editing since she could read –- long before she received her B.A. in English -- but she didn’t consider it for a career until she fell in love with the English department after trying out two other majors first (vocal music and communications). She journeyed through college both reading and writing about some of the best literature ever written, and getting graded for it — a dream come true!
All the while she moderated an IRC chatroom where she met the man who would later become her husband. Four years and a bachelor’s degree later she graduated and got married, began freelancing as a writer, editor, and moderator not long after, and has been doing it ever since!
A native of New York and Central Florida, Julia currently resides outside SW Houston, Texas, with her incredible husband and their two goofy cats. Her hobbies include singing, seeing Broadway musicals, reading, geocaching, scrapbooking, drinking tea, watching movies, and spending time with her husband and family & friends.
Other Web sites of Julia's:
- Temlyn Writing: freelance writing, editing, & moderating services
- Musical Reviewer (previously All About Musicals)
- Writers Remember
- Training/Experience/Places I've Worked:
- I've had 10+ years of community building & moderating experience (e.g., chat rooms, wikis, virtual worlds, message boards, groups/lists, etc.) I'm very versatile, and learn quickly.
MyCycle (Community Moderator, February 2009-present)
• An online community for women
Houston Writers & Editors (Administrator, June 2008-present)
• An online community for Houston writers & editors
Absolute Write – (Moderator, April 2005-present); IRC Host of Q&A chats
• Forum moderator for one of the largest web communities devoted to the various genres and styles of writing
WEGO Health (Community Moderator, July 2007-April 2008)
• Helped develop and hire online community leaders who participate in the community
• Forum and topic management: encouraged user discussions, helped users get the info they're seeking, created forums and topics that met the needs of the users and the organization, and other housekeeping duties
• Performed customer support projects and duties as needed/assigned
• Wrote newsletters & regular blog posts to evangelize what is new on the site and help drive traffic to the community
Wetpaint & Sasquatch Books (Senior Community Moderator, July 2006-Sept. 2007; Currently on a voluntary basis)
• Encouraged community interaction in addition to editing and contributing to various pages of three professional wiki sites based on books from Sasquatch Books:
• Book Lust w/ Nancy Pearl
• How to Date
• Should I Do What I Love? Creative Advice for Career Types
• Also assist at Wetpaint Central
• Selected Accomplishments:
• Have grown Book Lust from a handful of members to more than 1600
Writers Remember (Administrator, Oct. 2005-Present)
Bad Birth Control LJ Community (Administrator, Feb. 2005-Present))
• A community for people to share their not-so-good experiences on hormonal birth control, without being bashed for having those bad experiences. (This was created after I had a horrible experience, and my doctor told me that "it's not the pill; it's you." Yet I'd been perfectly healthy before, and once I'd weaned off the pill, I was relatively back-to-normal.)
MakeupTalk (Super Moderator, April 2004-2005)
• Moderator, promoted to Super Moderator, for popular beauty and skincare forums.
IRC Singles Chatroom - High Trafficked (Channel Operator: 1998-2004)
• Channel operator for IRC singles (18-30) channel.
Yahoo & Ning Groups (Administrator, 1998-Present)
• Administrator and moderator for a variety of Yahoo! and Ning forums.
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