Rainbow House Cookies

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Alberta Worker

Write daily news stories, focusing on labour, as well as Lethbridge, Alberta, and Canadian politics, specializing in investigative journalism and critical analysis. Also write regular editorials on general politics and social issues.

Journalist

Hot Pepper Communications

Hot Pepper Communications specializes in writing, editing, and social media. I have over 34 years experience editing and writing, 16 years experience managing social media, 20 years experience blogging, and 23 years managing e-newsletters.

Copywriter

Siever family

Managing home education of two elementary children, cooking meals, hanging laundry on the line, doing the dishes, taking children to the park, managing family budget, buying groceries, driving children to appointments and classes, registering children for classes, and various other domestic labour responsibilities.

Homemaker

YQL Vote

Part of a team that curated content for this outlet focused on political news. Also live tweet candidate debates.

Content Curator

The University of Lethbridge

Mentored students in improving their academic writing. Reviewed writing assignments for structure, flow, and general grammar issues.

Academic Support/Tutor, Writing Centre

Elect Lethbridge

Covered municipal politics, including live tweeting debates and analysis of election results. Occasionally wrote investigative stories.

Lead Correspondent

Truehope Nutritional Support Ltd.

I managed their social media properties; edited and laid out their print newsletter; edited their e-newsletter; did copy writing, including drafting press releases; and coordinated printing projects with third-party vendors. I also coordinated marketing efforts when the Marketing Director was absent.

 • Implemented a communications office
 • Centralized communications efforts into one office
 • Oversaw the editing process of external communications

Accomplishments

 • Grew Twitter account from 97 followers to over 2600 followers
 • Grew Facebook account from 959 likes to over 1850
 • Increased Facebook engagement from a weekly reach of 721 to over 7500
 • Started a blog that saw a record 2700 daily pageviews
 • Started a Google+ account; it reached over 600 +1’s when I left

Communications Specialist

Southern Alberta Home Schooling Supplies

Oversaw development of online and print materials and company branding. Managed social media properties.

Managed inventory and financials.

Marketing and Communications Manager

Lethbridge News

Organized the creation of Lethbridge News, a user-submitted news site. Oversaw the administration of the site. Oversaw publication of articles, including editing. Managed relationships with communications personnel at key organizations. Managed volunteer staffing levels.

Under my direction, it became the most popular citizen journalism site in Lethbridge. We also managed to make it the most popular Lethbridge media outlet on Facebook and Twitter, with over 13,000 combined followers by the time I resigned and handed over the reigns to someone else. Our website received about 75,000 pageviews per month in July 2013, and we placed in the top search results for “lethbridge news”.

Editor-in-chief

Kim Siever is an independent journalist based in Lethbridge, Alberta. He writes daily news stories, focusing on municipal, provincial, and federal politics, specializing in investigative journalism and critical analysis from a leftist political lens. He also writes regular editorials on general politics and social issues.

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