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RockUnemployment offers job search tips, cheap fun ideas, and inspirational articles & interviews for gigging creatives. Need more help landing your dream gig? Email me!

About Melanie

Photo by Jennifer Rau

After leaving a career in marketing, I returned to the freelance world to indulge my love of “the internets”. My newest project, Your Mom Uses WordPress, provides tutorials and on call programming assistance to WordPress beginners. (It’s my secret goal to help the next generation of women entrepreneurs take over the web!)

In 2009, I also founded RockUnemployment.com, which helps creative freelancers go from “laid off” to “happy and hired.”

I frequently consult on project management and web development for local agencies and private clients, and became a personal branding strategist by way of over 11 years in TV editing, web development, and high level online marketing for clients such as MTV, Paramount, Sony, Fox, and Jenny Craig.

When I’m not at my computer, I enjoy going for hikes, raiding the library, and taking photos of my crazy dog, Boomer.

Get in touch with me on my personal website.