Timothy Horrigan's InSL (and OutSL) Writing Samples
Timothy Horrigan (with much help from Tammy Nowotny); October 2, 2008
[October
2, 2008] This page originated as a list of writing and editing
samples I submitted in late September 2008 for a Web
Editor opening at Linden
Lab.
You can see the original page at: http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/lindenlab.080927.html
You can also see a PDF version of this portfolio at: http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/documents/insl-writing-samples.timothy-horrigan.pdf
Second Life-related samples:
A page about my "SesquiTammy" book and clothing stores:
The stores are located at:
I have been selling clothes and Second
Life-related books through these outlets, as well as real life
textbooks, using the Amazon.com
affiliate program.
An
October 2007 article: "CSI Comes to Second Life":
(about the "Down the Rabbit Hole" episode of CSI:NY)
A review of Kelly Services's Second Life island (built by The Wishfarmers):
This page gets a significant number of hits from people who know little or nothing of Second Life, since I have several links from pages related to educational assessment testing. (Kelly recruits test scorers for my former employer, Measured Progress, of Dover, NH.)
Two
blurbs promoting land I bought from the Linden auctions. (I just
barely broke even on these two projects):
Other Samples:
My 2008 Election page, promoting my candidacy for the NH House of Representatives:
A page promoting my novel The Forgotten Liars:
A press release for a 2006 Congressional Candidate forum in New Hampshire:
2006 letters supporting Carol Shea-Porter for Congress:
February 26, 2008 DailyKos Diary about Net Neutrality:
My Amazon.com Spotlight Reviews of Anatoly Fomenko's "History, Fiction or Science?" vol. 1 & vol. 2
Estimated
Snow Parameters for Vehicle Mobility Modeling in Korea, Germany and
Interior Alaska: CRREL Special Report 95-23:
with Roy E.
Bates (US Army Cold Regions Lab, 1995)
Web Videos:
These short videos were created using found footage and iMovie.
"The
Secret Life of Brittany Murphy"
"LolliBank"
aka "It's Not the Money Man" aka "Citizens Bank"
Resumes:
Timothy Horrigan's chronological resume in Microsoft Word format:
Timothy Horrigan's chronological resume in HTML format:
Tammy Nowotny's functional Second Life resume:
Timothy Horrigan's writing samples (a PDF file with much the same content as this page):
One thing which may be interfering with my job search is that the web tools I have been using since 2004 have been fairly simple. I have built a fairly large and worthwhile website using these tools— TimothyHorrigan.com has over 300 pages (even though very few users bother to look at more than one or two of them.)
I do everything on an old MacMini. I
do most the text editing with OpenOffice.org,
which is a great free program. In fact I would still prefer to use
OOo even if it was as expensive as Microsoft
Office.
Those are all great products, and in fact for a Mac user like myself they are indispensable. But, none of them are buzzwords which recruiters search for, not even OpenOffice.org. (Minor digression: recruiters tend to use experience with the most familiar names in software as metonymys for the skills needed to use the software. <rant mode ON>So, for example, instead of asking for writing and document-creation skills, recruiters look for "Microsoft Word experience," even though there are other— and in many cases much better— word processors and desktop publishing packages. Instead of looking for number-crunching and data analysis skills, recruiters look for "Microsoft Excel experience," even though Excel is spectacularly ill-suited to many of the tasks people use it for. Excel is a nice spreadsheet, but it's a horrible database engine and an even more horrible data-visualization program.<rant mode OFF>)
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