Blattner

Sr. Internal Communications Business Partner

Various Print and Online Publications

Freelance writer for numerous online and print publications including IQ Magazine (Initiative Foundation), Enterprise Minnesota Magazine, Tri-County Health Care News, Lakewood Health Systems News and Thirty Two Magazine.

I have also covered the cleantech business world for many prominent green news sites since 2006, starting on my own personal site MariaEnergia.com and expanding to EarthandIndustry.com, Ecopolitology.com, and GreenOptions.com. My writing has earned invitations attend and cover national events by the Clinton Global Initiative, the American Wind Energy Association and the American Petroleum Institute.

Contributing Writer (Various Publications)

WorkationWoman.com

I'm the author of Next-Level Digital Nomad: A guide to traveling and working from anywhere (even with kids and a day job). The stereotype of a digital nomad is someone young, unmarried, with no kids and no mortgage. A workation – a blend of “work” + “vacation” – takes the idea of being a digital nomad to the next level.

For me and my family, workations allow us to travel for longer periods of time than we could normally afford to if we were just taking a vacation. We get the best of both worlds: The chance to see the world while still earning money while doing it!

I also run WorkationWoman.com, a site with ideas and resources for families that want to temporarily travel and work around the world without quitting their day jobs or significantly uprooting their lives. Learn more at www.workationwoman.com

Workation Woman, Author

Two Rivers Communications

B2B Content Strategist/Writer and Marketing Consultant. My skills and services included:
- Business writing, including website copy, articles for publication, white papers, case studies, video 
  scripts, marketing materials, sales presentations, speeches, magazine feature articles and more. 
- Social media strategy, management and execution - I managed the social media presence for more 
  than a half-dozen clients, ranging from a new non-profit to a division of a publicly-traded 
  corporation. 
- Branding and strategic communications, including overall communications strategy and re- 
  branding/name changes. 

Particular focus areas and experience: Technology, supply chain/logistics, sustainability and renewable energy.

I've worked with business, nonprofit, government, and corporate clients of all sizes. I'm a skilled, strategic, and exceptionally reliable extension of an organization's marcomm team.

Owner

Women's Leadership Fund

The Women's Leadership Fund aims to accelerate the number, effectiveness, and impact of women in organizational leadership roles in rural Central Minnesota. We're an all-volunteer effort and a partner fund of the Initiative Foundation. 

Learn more about what we do! https://womensleadershipfund.org/

Co-Founder and Co-Chair

Tunheim

I specialized in sustainability and energy communications, as well as online/social media and B2B media relations. I managed account revenues of more than $300,000 worth of business-to-business, energy, nonprofit and public affairs clients.

Account Manager

Fresh Energy

Media relations and strategic communications for nonprofit clean energy clients across the Upper Midwest.

Media Relations Coordinator

Internal communications business partner at Blattner Company, helping it grow, evolve, and lead the way to a clean energy future. Loves to uncover how things work and what makes the world run. +20 years’ marcomm experience in renewable energy, B2B tech, and supply chain industries. 

For 12 years, I was self-employed as a sought-after B2B marketing consultant, content strategist and writer. Ghost-wrote articles for C-suite leaders that appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and dozens of trade publications. 

Volunteer work focused on the environment and on women and economic development in rural Minnesota. Appears as a riveted audience member in the Oscar-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth."

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