John Paul Boitnott in Daly City, CA | St Ignatius College Preparator - University Of California Santa Barbara

John P. Boitnott

Male, 45 years old

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A longtime writer with years of experience in social media consulting, marketing and journalism. As a consultant with a background in the newsroom, I have advised and created content for a wide variety of sites and publishers, helping them build their popularity on the Internet. I have worked as a web editor for NBCBayArea, a social media manager for Village Voice Media as well as an online marketing strategist for multiple companies, including Venturebeat, IGN and MySpace. As Senior Account Manager at Viralheat, I worked with customers of the social media monitoring and engagement tool to teach them how to get the most out of the product. I also helped the sales and MarketingPR teams. Before this I worked with digital marketing agency Hasai. My team there leveraged social sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to help direct millions of page views a month to clients. We worked on PR and marketing solutions for startups and other companies that drove traffic and built buzz. As the social media manager for Village Voice Media in and , I helped drive traffic by the millions to the sites owned by Americas largest alternative weekly newspaper company. I also trained editorial and marketing groups in best practices in social media. I began my social media career while working at a major-market NBC TV affiliate web site, nbcbayarea.com - using my extensive newsroom experience and burgeoning social media knowledge to help bring traffic to the site. This wasn't even my primary job though. A a web editor I gauged performance, charted improvements, incorporated video, slideshows and reporter blogs. Specialties Speaking and Presenting, Social Media, Marketing, Startup Strategy, Promotions, Infographics, Viral Marketing, Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Site Design, Technology, Business, Political news, Web site analysis read more ...