Sam Schlinkert

Hello! My name is Sam Schlinkert. I graduated from Duke University in May 2010 with a degree in philosophy and a minor in economics. You can find me elsewhere on Twitter and Tumblr. 

I am currently the Social Media Coordinator at Newsweek & The Daily Beast. My responsibilities include:

• Posting to the Tumblr blogs, Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, Google+, YouTube channel and Pinterest boards of both Newsweek and The Daily Beast
• Setting up and customized code for multiple Tumblr blogs, such as NWKArchivist and The Pork Barrel.
• Writing articles for The Daily Beast, including a profile of the media center at Occupy Wall Street, using tools such as Storify and word cloud generators when appropriate 
• Overseeeing freelance community moderators to improve the quality of comments
• Writing internal documents such as weekly statistical reports and social media guidelines and strategy 

Besides my personal Tumblr, I also maintain three other Tumblr blogs:

• Blake Lively Doing Things - Photos of the blonde Gossip Girl starlet doing different things with exquisitely literal captions.
• Kitchen Counters – A cross between a home design blog and an experiment in sexual fantasy, this Tumblr is simply a series of photos of big kitchen counters. Since being added to Tumblr’s Spotlight, it’s accrued over 10,000 followers.  
• Interesting Things Explained in Soothing Voices – A Tumblr dedicated to documentary-style videos narrated in pleasant voices.

During the fall of 2010 I was an editorial intern at Flavorwire, Flavorpill’s culture blog. My work included: 

• 10 Actors Qualified to be the U.N.’s Extraterrestrial Ambassador
• Cartozoological Urban Planning Comes to Southern Sudan
• Off the Grid: 10 Movies About Isolation
• more

In the summer of 2010 I was an online intern at Parade.com. My responsibilities included:

• Posting to celebrity news blog the Hollywood Wire
• Writing for Personality Parade
• Slideshows, including: Most Regrettable Career Moves, 8 Comic Book Heroes Who Deserve Their Own Films, 16 Stars’ Most Embarrassing TV Ads
• Running the site’s Twitter account

In the fall of 2009 I co-founded a blog called The ## (pronounced “Hashtag Hashtag”). With a team of six contributors we’ve written over 600 posts about movies, music, television, blog culture and technology. Some sample posts of mine include:

• A two-part series on Kanye West’s Twitter Account 
• A World Cup Fraturday
• Lie To Me, Non-Apple Smartphone, Or Things Not To Do While Doing Hallucinogens
• Top 36 Moments in The Google Super Bowl Ad
• The Ignition (Remix) Theory

While at Duke I wrote for RECESS (the arts section of The Chronicle) and Towerview (Duke’s student-run magazine).

Samples:

• Social Activity
• Intensity in Tent City
• Chat Roulette
• more

Skills-wise I know my way around HTML and CSS and have used Tumblr, Wordpress, OpenCMS, Twitter, CoTweet, MS Office, and Google Docs. 

Please feel free to contact me at SSchlinkert [at] gmail.com