DISTINCTIVE SKILL I write for businesses and people wanting to express their visions. EXPERIENCE Writer, Photojournalist, Communications Consultant 4/1/94 to Present.....................................................Self-employed Appleton, WI Major long-term clients and accomplishments include: World’s largest ice cream company (newspaper, sales conferences). Second largest community foundation in Wisconsin (annual reports, news releases, newsletters, editorials, special letters). Major paper company (paper sample booklets). Various advertising, design and marketing agencies (corporate brochures and special projects involving health care, insurance, financial services, manufacturing, and more). Creating, designing and producing my own web site, www.jedblock.com. Writing, publishing and distributing THE BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE, Book 1: Getting Diabetes and MAKING THE BEST OF LIFE, Book 2: Learning to Live With Diabetes, books about diabetes which the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International purchased for its library. Director of Communications and Corporate Secretary 2/1/80 to 3/31/94...........................Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company, Neenah, WI Responsible for advertising, public relations, media relations, and publications, as well as supervising related staff. In addition to writing print materials and speeches, wrote and produced loss-prevention films and videotapes. Provided direction to external design agencies, photographers, and production companies. Responsible for company logo, corporate voice, trade shows, and special events, such as 75th anniversary celebrations. Senior Writer and Media Relations Specialist 1/3/78 to 1/29/80................................Aid Association for Lutherans, Appleton, WI Editor of Yes magazine and SMART newsletter. Developed and responsible for news release program. Writer of special projects. Reporter/Photographer 8/1/76 to 12/30/77.............................Rochelle News Leader newspaper, Rochelle, IL Served as sports editor, feature writer, and police reporter. Responsible for page layouts, writing/fitting headlines, making photographs, processing film, and cropping photos. Learned to apply principles and fundamentals of the craft without word processing or computer design programs. EDUCATION Kalamazoo College....................................................................Kalamazoo, MI English major with emphasis in creative writing. Studied art in Europe. Elected defensive captain of football team. Worked in college’s news bureau and at the Kalamazoo Gazette as a sports stringer. United States Naval Academy.......................................................Annapolis, MD Congressional appointment. INTERESTS Being a husband, father of three daughters, son, and brother. Golf, jogging (completed three marathons), Transcendental Meditation, and coaching daughter’s softball and baskeball teams. Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banta Community Credit Union. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Credit Union Financial Resource Corporation. Advisory Committee member of the U.S. Oil Diabetes Fund of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. Member of the Outreach Committe of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, Fox Valley Chapter. PAST AFFILIATIONS Graduate of Leadership Fox Cities, a community leadership development program offered by the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce and Industry. President of Public Relations Organization of Central and Northeast Wisconsin. Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Fox Valley Unites, a volunteer coalition for the prevention of drug abuse. President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Fox Valley Softball Association, Inc. JED BLOCK • 4300 KNOLLWOOD LANE • APPLETON, WI 54913-6307 PHONE (920) 735-6061 • FAX (920) 735-6067 • jed@jedblock.com
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