The enduring story of this pandemic will be that it had really been a life-changing event for so many of us. For my family, the difficulties we faced triggered a move to the Chicago area—where… Read More »A career in product without the label
The concept of a business directory is not novel in the association world. It’s an easy way of listing organizational members or sponsors. Any association software suite offers it as an option, but at the… Read More »Giving nonprofit sponsors a seat at the table with an industry directory
Organizations across the world scrambled as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened their very existence and our way of life. We couldn’t meet in person anymore, so we had to meet virtually. So many teams knew this,… Read More »Embracing a pivot to virtual with a custom online event platform
Since 2000, the Online Journalism Awards (OJAs) have honored the best in digital journalism. The range of projects participating in the awards have evolved along with available technology since the early days of the internet.… Read More »Creating a home for the Online Journalism Awards
Project deprecated — Over the summer of 2016, I led six interns to produce a new data journalism blog focused on politics. We developed some great features and processes, but ultimately the project ended with… Read More »Whipboard
Inspired by websites like Marketwatch, I pitched a hackathon project that would bring the current status and projection of bills into news articles. The tool leveraged the FiscalNote API and inserted text into a paragraph… Read More »BillTicker
When The Washington Post launched a homepage redesign in August 2015, it was the culmination of years of work — not as one large redesign, but as part of an iterative approach that began with the article… Read More »The Tech Landscape of Newspaper Websites
For the second year I contracted with the Online News Association on their annual conference site. Working on a conference website presents a challenge because the relevant information changes over the course of several months.… Read More »ONA14