Joseph G. Follansbee

6713 42nd Avenue SW     Seattle, WA 98136

joef@speakeasy.net     (206) 932-7578

 

Recent Publications and Engagements

Websites

§         Maritime Heritage Network

§         A-Y-P Exposition Community

§          Preservation 4Culture (“Projects”)

§          Heritage 4Culture (“Heritage Advisor”)

§          Female Sailor Bold podcast for Pirate Queen book website

Books

§          Get Streaming! Quick Steps to Delivering Audio and Video Online (Focal Press, May, 2004)

§          The Hands-On Guide to Windows Media 9 Series (Focal Press, November, 2005)

§          The Hands-On Guide to Streaming Media (Focal Press, May, 2006)

§          Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona (iUniverse, November, 2006)

Public Relations and Marketing Writing Clients

§          Preservation 4Culture (“Projects”)

§         Heritage 4Culture (“Heritage Advisor”)

§          Communiqué PR (News releases for clients)

§          Spectralux Corporation (Website copy)

§          Online Video Service (Website copy)

§          UXM – User Experienced Media (Website copy)

§          UjimaSuites

 Food Service Tracking Application Helps Fight Hunger“ (Ujima Consultants)

§          Eye on Networks” (Fluke Networks, June – August, 2004; September – December, 2006)

§          Providence Health System – We Value Excellence” (Eyeplay)

§          Frequently Asked Questions” (Eyeplay)

§          Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society, Southwest Seattle Historical Society (Maritime heritage commemoration event, November 2006)

Fiction (as Anden Sharp)

§        The Arc of Hronos,” (podcast) Drabblecast, December 29, 2007

§        “A War Beyond War, and I Am the Only Soldier,” Dreams and Visions, 2007

§        The Warden’s Last Day,” (podcast) Drabblecast, October 3, 2007

General Magazine Writing

§        “Seattle’s WWII Squadron,” America in World War II, February, 2009

§        “Meeting Motifs,” Alaska Airlines Magazine, January, 2008

§        “The High Seas,” Washington Law & Politics, Fall, 2007

§        Preservation Story,” Seattle, July, 2007

§        Sobering Impact,” Seattle, July, 2007

§        “The Do-Something Politician,” Washington Law & Politics, Summer, 2007

§        Healing Health Care: Low-Cost Options for Small Business,” Seattle Business Monthly, July, 2007

§        Buyout Bonanza,” Seattle Business Monthly, June, 2007

§        Unearthing the Internet’s Secrets,” Seattle Business Monthly, April, 2007

§        “Lesson Plan,” Seattle, March, 2007

§        “Moving Past,” Seattle, February, 2007

§        “Waves of the Future,” Horizon Air, January, 2007

§        “Collision Course,” Seattle, January, 2007

§        “Turf War,” Seattle Business Monthly, January, 2007

§        “Who Wants to Know?” Washington Law & Politics, Winter 2007

§        “South End Rising,” Seattle, December 2006

§        “The Biotech Gamble,” Seattle Business Monthly, November 2006

§        “Bad Sport,” Seattle, October 2006

§        “Bellevue Blows Up,” Seattle, October 2006

§        “9/11: Five Years After,” Seattle Business Monthly, September 2006

§        “The Greening of Seattle,” Seattle, September 2006

§        “There’s No Place Like Home,” Sea, September 2006

§        “The Disappearing Middle Class,” Seattle, August 2006

§        “Picking Up the Pieces,” Seattle Business Monthly, July 2006

§        “The New (Taller) Downtown,” Seattle, July 2006

§        “25 Extreme Group Adventures,” Northwest Meetings & Events, Summer 2006

§        “High-Tech Wunderkind: Scott Lipsky,” Seattle Business Monthly, June 2006

§        “Drugstore Wars,” Seattle Business Monthly, June 2006

§        “Small Town Adventures: Hoodsport,” Seattle, May 2006

§        “Health Codes,” Seattle, May 2006

§        “How Green Are We? A Guide to Sustainability,” Seattle, April 2006

§        “Sibling Rivalry,” Seattle, March 2006

§        “Checking Out,” Seattle, March 2006

§        “Unlocking Deadlock,” the Update (Washington State Bar Association), Winter/Spring 2006

§        “Are We Ready? (Disaster Preparedness),” Seattle, February 2006

§        “Citizen Lawmakers,” Seattle Business Monthly, February 2006

§        “Glaser’s Global Reach,” Seattle Business Monthly, January 2006

§        “Uprooted (Failures of Seattle Grass Roots Politics),” Seattle, January 2006

§        “Flexcar’s Transit Revolution,” Seattle Business Monthly, November 2005

§        “Good News and Bad News on Hiring,” Seattle Business Monthly, November 2005

§        Allied Force,” Evergreen Monthly, November 2005

§        “Free-way Access (WiFi in Seattle),” Seattle, November 2005

§        “Chance of Gloom,” Seattle Business Monthly, October 2005 (Premier Issue)

§        “Kidless in Seattle” Seattle, September 2005

§        “Fevered History: An Expanded Museum Re-opens” Seattle, September 2005

§        Left on Your Dial: Can Liberal Talk Radio Save the Democrats?Evergreen Monthly, June 2005

§        Webcasting for Beginners,” Northwest Meetings & Events, Spring 2005

§        “South Park: A Hidden Jewel Rediscovered,” Seattle, February 2005

§        Natural High (Alternative Treatments for Depression),” Evergreen Monthly, January 2005

§        “What’s Going on at KING-FM?” Seattle, December, 2004

§        “As the Page Turns,” Seattle, September, 2004

§        “Luna Rising,” Seattle, September, 2004

§   Unemployment School,” NW Drizzle, August 1, 2004

§          Taking Charge of HIV/AIDS with Complementary Medicine,” Evergreen Monthly, July, 2004

§          “State of the Art Events: Picture Perfect Museums to Meet In,” Northwest Meetings and Events, Summer, 2004

§          “New Life for a Last Stop,” Seattle, July/August, 2004

§          “Connecting the Dots,” Seattle, June, 2004

§          Ballard to Brazil and Back,” Pacific Northwest Magazine, May 2, 2004

§          Getting Off the Tiger,” NW Drizzle, May 1, 2004

§          Cautiously Optimistic,” Northwest Meetings and Events, Spring, 2004

§          “Top Ten Criteria for Picking a Video Production Company,” Marketing, March, 2004 (ghosted)

§          “24p Puts a New Spin on an Old Cliché,” HighDef, January, 2004 (ghosted)

§          “From Brochure to Pickaxe: How to Turn Your Web Site Into a Prospecting Tool,” Home Business Journal, December, 2003

§          A Cut Above: Practicing the Butcher’s Craft in the Old-Fashioned, Neighborly Way,” Pacific Northwest Magazine, October, 2003

§          “Religion and Politics: A Cautionary Tale of a Volunteer and a Technology Upgrade,” The Journal of Volunteer Administration, Fall, 2003

§          “Recycling the Phantasmagoria,” Washington Free Press, Summer 2003

§          “A ‘Hood of My Own,” Seattle, July 2003

Maritime History and Industry Articles

§        “The innovative and flexible river patrol boat was the backbone of the Brown Water Navy,” Vietnam, April, 2007

§        “Lotus,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Winter 2006

§        “Replica Shipyard Helps Pirates Again,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Summer 2006

§        “Seattle’s Preservation Effort,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Summer 2006

§        “Celebrity Sea Captain: Pursing the Real ‘Matt’ Peasley,” Columbia, Summer 2006

§        “Ocean Odyssey: Four Seattle Rowers Attempt the Journey of a Lifetime,” Sea, June 2006

§        “Brigantine Irving Johnson on the Mend,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Spring 2006

§        “Restored Tug Sand Man,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Spring 2006

§        “The Fisherman Who Nearly Started a War with Japan,” Mariner’s Mirror, February 2006

§        “Wright of Passage: Wooden Boatbuilding Schools In and Around Puget Sound,” Sea, January 2006

§        “Rock the Boat: Chantey Singers Keep a Maritime Tradition Alive in Puget Sound,” Sea, January 2006

§        “The Death, Burial, and Remembrance of Charles Foss, Master of the Schooner Wawona,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Summer 2005

§        Human Cargo (Foreign Seamen),” Evergreen Monthly, September 2005

§        “Bringing back a bygone era (Tall ship replicas)” Sailing, September 2005

§        “Swiftsure Lightship Dark, But Hopes Brighten” Maritime Life & Traditions, Autumn 2005

§        “Twilight Restoration Celebrates Fishing Heritage” Maritime Life & Traditions, Autumn 2005

§        Seattle: The Maritime Heritage Also-Ran,” Seattle, May, 2005

§    “Loose on the High Seas: ‘Wine’-making on the Schooner Wawona,” Gastronomica, Spring 2005

§        The Conservation of Memory,” Evergreen Monthly, April 2005

§        “Historic Arthur Foss Tug Gets Major Facelift,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Winter 2005

§        “Beams & Dreams,” Sea, February 2005

§        “Out of Sight, Out of Mind?" (Historic Ferry Kalakala),” Sea, January 2005

§   “Bendixsen Schooner May Be Centerpiece for Park,” Maritime Life & Traditions, Fall, 2004

§        Hook, Line and Sunk?Evergreen Monthly, November, 2004

§   Seattle Dedicates Wharf for Historic Ships,” Preservation Online, August 2, 2004

§   “Don’t Let City’s History Wash Away,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 30, 2004

§   Sing-Alongs and Shipboard Concerts Are a Good-Time History Lesson,” The Seattle Times, July 29, 2004

§          “Fishermen’s Meals a la 1936,” 48° North, July, 2004

§          “The First Whale-Watching Cruise?” Nostalgia, May, 2004

§          Don’t Scuttle City’s Maritime History,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 3, 2004

§          “Schooner Wawona,” Sea History, Winter, 2004

§          San Francisco Man Will Turn Historic Ferry Into Museum,” Preservation Online, Sept. 15, 2003

§          Kalakala Auctioned in Seattle,” Kodiak Daily Mirror, Sept. 13, 2003

Public Speaking on Seattle History and Other Issues

§          Numerous presentations in 2007 to promote Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona

§          Support for Maritime Heritage Initiative, King County Council (November 2, 2006)

§          Support for Museum of History & Industry, Seattle City Council Parks, Education, Libraries & Labor Committee (August 16, 2006)

§          Threats to Schooner Wawona, Seattle City Council Urban Planning & Development Committee (July 12, 2006)

§          Seattle Central Waterfront Concept Plan, Seattle City Council (June 5, 2006)

§          What’s It Take to Be Ready? (Emergency preparedness), Food Lifeline Conference (March 27, 2006)

§          What’s It Take to Be Ready? (Emergency preparedness), Bellevue Arts Museum (March 4, 2006)

§          Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona (Schooner Wawona Summit, Dec. 7, 2005)

§          Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona (Klondike Gold Rush National Park, Nov. 5, 2005)

§          Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona (Mercer Island Historical Society, Oct. 17, 2005)

§          Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona (Kenmore Historical Society, Oct. 5, 2005)

§          Buster Keaton’s The Navigator and Its Ties to Seattle (The Paramount Theatre, Aug. 22, 2005)

§          Seattle: Business is Usual (Young Presidents Organization, May 4, 2005)

§          Wawona: Lumber Schooner, Fishing Vessel, Northwest Legacy (April 5, 2005; May 31, 2005)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority, Aberdeen, Washington                                                                                              2007 – 2009

§          Communications Director – Wrote and distributed news releases, maintain media contacts, manage company website, including e-commerce upgrades.

 

Free-lance writer based in Seattle, Washington                                                                   2003 – 2007

§          Author of three books on streaming media published by Focal Press

§          Articles and essays published in Seattle, Pacific Northwest Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Evergreen Monthly, Nostalgia, Sea History, 48° North, Maritime Life & Traditions, and Northwest Meetings & Events

§          Writer and content producer for 4Culture’s Preservation program

§          Editor of 4Culture’s Heritage Advisor newsletter

§          Wrote and edited client security document for Nuclear Regulatory Commission contract

§          Wrote and edited online marketing materials for Online Video Service, UXM – User Experienced Media, and Ujima Consultants

 

MarketFitz, Seattle, Washington                                                                                          2002 – 2007

§          Core Associate, Web Development (2002-2003) – Designed and built MySQL database and Perl interface for Benaroya Research Institute website

§          Website Manager (2004) – Project manager for Benaroya Research Institute website, oversaw website upgrades in collaboration with numerous BRI stakeholders

§          Writer (2004- 2006) – Wrote Eye on Networks online newsletter for Fluke Networks, also promotional copy for the company’s network testing tools

 

Eyeplay, Seattle, Washington                                                                                              2003 – 2004

§          Director of Interactive Media – Wrote and edited marketing articles for placement in targeted magazines; Wrote case studies, FAQ, and features/benefits documents for company website

 

Compel Interactive, Seattle, Washington                                                                             2001 – 2003

§          Managing Director – Owned and operated web development company, specializing in streaming media; clients included The Museum of History & Industry, Ballard Historical Society, and Southwest Seattle Historical Society. Also wrote 33-page consulting report for Aspiration, a Seattle not-for-profit

 

Bastyr University, Kenmore, Washington                                                                                         2003

§          Internet Specialist – Assisted webmaster with management of main Bastyr University website using ASP and Access databases; also used PHP while building a new departmental website

 

RealNetworks, Seattle, Washington                                                                                     1996 – 2001

§          Content Operations Manager, Consumer Systems (1998-2001) – Oversaw online operations for content products, which consisted of managing relationships with major media organizations; also designed, built, and managed database-driven quality of service tracking system on Linux platform using MySQL and Roxen web server

§          Special Projects Editor, Programming Services (1996-1998) – Wrote and produced written and audio content for marketing RealPlayer, including e-mail newsletter

 

TravelSound, Rochester, Minnesota                                                                                    1995 – 1996

§          Owner – Designed and built early travel website using audio travelogues

 

KLSE/KZSE Minnesota Public Radio, Rochester, Minnesota                                                1990 – 1996

§          News Director – Supervised two reporter/producers, recruited and managed team of stringers, reported and produced award-winning live and recorded spot news and features for statewide radio network, contributed spot news for National Pubic Radio

 

Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland, Oregon                                                                            1987 – 1990

§          Assistant News Director – Reported and produced award-winning daily news magazine

 

Free-lance reporter based in Ashland, Oregon                                                                     1987 – 1990

§          Reported and produced award-winning spot news and features for National Public Radio, Monitoradio, Cal-Net, and National Native News

§          Wrote articles for publication in Oregon-based magazines and travel books

 

The Record-Searchlight, Redding, California                                                                                   1987

§          General Assignment Reporter

 

The Daily Tidings, Ashland, Oregon                                                                                     1986 – 1987

§          Education Reporter

 

The Olympian, Olympia, Washington                                                                                              1986

§          Reporter Intern

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor of Arts, Communications, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

§          Evergreen Scholar

 

Bachelor of Arts - Magna Cum Laude, Criminal Justice Studies, Seattle University

 

Two years undergraduate work, Criminal Justice Studies

Bellevue Community College, Phi Theta Kappa

 

Graduate studies, International Studies/Communications

Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon

 

Narrative Non-Fiction, Winter 2003

Nicholas O’Connell

University of Washington Extension

 

Personal Essay, Spring 2003

Priscilla Long

University of Washington Extension

 

Creative Non-Fiction, Summer 2003

Nicholas O’Connell

Private course

 

Creative Non-Fiction Seminar, Fall 2003

Lee Gutkind

Richard Hugo House, Seattle

 

Finding the Narrative, Winter 2004

Emily White

Richard Hugo House, Seattle

 

 

AssociationS/Volunteer Work

 

Pacific Northwest Writers Association

Board Vice President, Association of King County Historical Organizations

Coordinator, Seattle Heritage Coalition

Volunteer and former board member, Northwest Seaport

 

 

Recent honors

 

Honorable Mention, Non-Fiction, Oregon Writers Colony Writing Competition, 2003

First Place, Editorial, Society of Professional Journalists (Seattle chapter), 2005

Third Place, Social Issues, Society of Professional Journalists, 2006

Virginia Marie Folkins Award for Outstanding Historical Publication, AKCHO, 2007