Matthew Wayne Selznick

Read what others have said about my professional qualities and performance in a number of different areas of expertise.

As a Community Manager and Product Evangelist

• “Matt is an extremely dedicated, intelligent and hard working executive. Highly recommend tapping his skills for all things community, podcasting and editorial.”
  – Jason Calacanis, CEO & Founder, Mahalo.com Inc.; CEO & Co-Founder, Weblogs Inc.
• “Matthew was the ‘champion of the user’ for Mahalo. He was tireless and meticulous in his efforts to make sure the viewpoint of our customers was understood by the tech team. And he did this with amazing success. Prior to this, he managed the Greenhouse, our freelance effort, which was no easy task. It was a massive undertaking, riddled with people problems, money and check issues, technical glitches, and editorial aspects. And yet, Matt somehow managed to make all the ‘trains run on time’ and keep everyone happy. The reader should understand that this was a really crazy undertaking, and Matt not only volunteered for it but attacked and threw down to make this go month after month. We thanked our stars that Matt was around: he was a ‘hero of Mahalo’ on many, many occasions. I personally went out of my way to recruit Matt and was delighted to have him as long as I did, and I would hire him again in a heartbeat. Anyone who gets him is incredibly lucky.”
  — Mark Jeffrey, CTO, Mahalo.com Inc.; Co-Founder, The Palace, Inc.; Author
• “Matt was the first person to volunteer when Mahalo first began discussing organizing freelance user contributions in the Mahalo Greenhouse and during the first year of its development Matt was instrumental in planning and executing on our plans for this freelance program. He also helped manage well over 200 freelance contributors, facilitating all the assorted paperwork involved in managing such a workforce, and carefully tallying and determining payment for them. He also had a passion for the community we were building and was constantly thinking of new ways to improve the community aspects of the site. He eventually became Product Evangelist at Mahalo, helping to run the company’s blog and reach out to the Mahalo users. Matt is a hard-working individual, a talented writer, and someone who is passionate about the work that he does. I hope to get the opportunity to work with him again.”
  – C.K. Sample, Social Media Consultant, Crowd Fusion; Editorial Director, Mahalo.com Inc.; Director and General Manager, Netscape.com
• “Knows the ins and outs of social media and building communities. I’d work with him again hands down and (he) seems to know where the next big thing online is going to be.”
  – Ray Slakinski, Lead Architect , Mahalo.com Inc.; System Administrator, Podiobooks.com; Co-creator, iPodderx / Transistr
• “Most jobs ask you to become engaged with the product/service that you are offering, but Matt takes it to a whole new level. Never have I seem someone so engaged with a product and so willing to dive into helping make it better/more impressive/more friendly to the user. Matt is able to ask the tough questions, and has the unique ability come to reasoned, thoughtful answers to those questions. If you are looking to make your product/service better, there is no better person to help you do that than Matt.”
  – Andrew Kaufman, Editorial Lead, Mahalo.com Inc.

As a New Media Pioneer

• “I have interacted with Matthew at conferences where we have been co-panelists discussing new media and intellectual property. When he speaks about the DIY ethic it is clear he does so from strong firsthand experience. Matthew gets the power of engagement that makes social and new media different from traditional media and he excels at connecting with his audience, cultivating a true fan relationship with each. He gets that the bar for success when distributing and promoting your own work directly is higher and the quality of his works is more than up to that challenge. I am happy and privileged to be able to point to him as an example of successfully doing it yourself and taking advantage of new media with positive results.”
  – Thomas Gideon, Producer, Host , The Command Line Podcast; Editor in Chief, Open Media Review; Principal Application Engineer, Brivo Systems; VP of Technology, Qbit LLC
• “As an early adopter of podcasting, Matthew has been instrumental in promoting the music of independent artists such as myself. I’m so thankful for his dedication to both the DIY ethic and the independent music scene.”
  – Samantha Murphy, Founder, The Highway Girl; Independent Singer-Songwriter
• “Matt did a top-notch job narrating written work for my podcasts. I have definite plans to bring him back to do it again.”
  – Steve Eley, Founder & Producer, Escape Artists LLC

As an Editor and Story Consultant

• “Matthew helped clarify what I wanted to convey and doubled the effectiveness of my writing.”
  – Erick Braun, Independent Author of “Johnnie and the Demon Queen”
• “I couldn’t be happier with the edit and recommend Matt to anyone who wants to put their work under a harsh but skillful light in order to improve it.”
  -– Paul Story, Dreamwords.com; Independent Author of “Tom Corvin” and “10 Downing St.”

As an Author

• “Matt Selznick is in the top ten of the new genre writers this year and “Brave Men Run” is a book you don’t want to miss.”
  – Paul Fischer, Producer, Dancing Cat Studio; Sr. Network Engineer & Architect, Northrop Grumman / TASC
• “Matthew Wayne Selznick creates a universe and characters that are real and genuine and live on in your heart long after you’ve finished the book.”
  – Mark Lefebvre, Book Operations Manager, Titles McMaster University Bookstore; Author of “One Hand Screaming”
• “Matthew Wayne Selznick is amazing in his debut novel! I know it’s shameful, but Selznick turned me into a fanboy!”
  – Jonathan Schiefer, Independent Writing and Editing Professional

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