Susannah Gardner
Vancouver, Canada
Homepage: http://www.hopstudios.com
Susannah Gardner is the co-founder and creative director of Hop Studios Internet Consultants, a Web design company specializing in custom Web solutions for content publishers.
Susannah is also a freelance writer and author; her latest book is “Buzz Marketing With Blogs for Dummies.” She is the co-author of "Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition," “Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Dummies,” from Wiley Publishing, and “Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004,” "BitTorrent for Dummies." also from Wiley Publishing. She is currently working on writing “Blogging for Dummies, 3rd Edition” due out in January 2010.
From 1997 to 2003, Susannah was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School for Communication, where she taught in the School of Journalism. Her classes in online publishing took students from zero to Web site in one semester.
Prior to running Hop Studios, Susannah worked in the Online Journalism and Communication Program at the University of Southern California, writing curriculum, teaching, and conducting research at the intersection of technology and journalism. She was a senior editor of the Online Journalism Review, still the media industry’s only Internet-focused journalism publication. Susannah also spent four years at The Los Angeles Times, one of six editors responsible for launching that newspaper’s Web site. During her time at LATimes.com, she established the site’s multimedia lab, which produced ground-breaking Web audio, video and animation. She also launched and edited MetaHollywood, an online-only publication that covered new Hollywood technology and was LATimes.com’s single largest revenue source in 1998.
Susannah earned bachelor’s degrees in Print Journalism and American literature at USC. Today she is pursuing a master’s degree in Public Art Studies, examining issues that cross the traditional boundaries of Internet publishing, journalism and art.
Visit the companion blog for “Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies” at www.buzzmarketingwithblogs.com. To learn more about her Web design company, visit www.hopstudios.com.
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