MGHurston Creative Services

As 2011 approaches I’m looking back on my accomplishments this past year… In 2010 I began helping my local Coldwell Banker’s office break into Social Media, at the same time as I took on Project Managing the developing SanJose.org website. Along with this began my consistent writing efforts on Yelp as well as my personal blogs. Writing was a key focus this year, as the majority of my tasks centered on this ...

I recently did some writing for Examiner.com (links coming after their site finishes migrating data over), very similar to my writings for SanJose.org, especially since my section is Nightlife-ish topics. But for those curious, here was the writing sample that got me approved by them. San Jose plays as hard as it works! You may be familiar with our California Casual style of dressing, and this relaxed theme carries over into our ...

I wake up at 7:30 am and I’m grouchy. I hate mornings. But I’m up because I have a conference call at 8:30am with the east coast. I head into work and place in my call. We chat for an hour about case studies, what info I need, who I need it from, when I need it by and when it will go live. A marketing department email goes out from ...

So what skill sets do you need to be a Content Producer? I view it as a jack-of-all-trades type of job and in no particular order here is my list… Key Item One: Writing On one hand you need to be able to write when asked about any subject, but this doesn’t mean you need to be Hemingway. As long as you can write the bulk of the content, other people in ...

While this may come across as being vain, a lot of people have asked me what, exactly, it is I do as an Online Content Producer and what they should focus on at their jobs to move into this type of position and so I find myself writing about a day in the life of me. It’s a bit hefty so I’ve broken this into two parts. The first is ...