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I'm an online community builder, having launched highly valuable alumni groups and neighborhood associations groups.

I've run a highly successful blog, unsuckdcmetro.blogspot.com, which in the short span of a year, was cited by every major and minor media outlet in the DC area, including a full profile in the Washington Post. The concept behind the blog was to build a user-generated content blog on the troubles facing Washington's mass transit authority. The blog reached the point where it wrote itself through the voluntary contributions of others.

With some 3,000 Twitter followers and hundreds of Facebook fans, the coverage of Metro provided by the blog often outflanks coverage by the mainstream media.

At my day job with the Broadcasting Board of Governors, I've launched a highly successful employee blog, which replaced a long moribund print version of an employee magazine. I also manage the agency's website and have transformed it from a static page into one that showcases the variety of activities the agency is engaged in.

Before leaving journalism, I’ve launched and managed a highly successful arts and entertainment Web site called citysearch.com, I’ve been a full-time freelancer in Spain, was a desk editor for a popular Gannet newspaper and covered the military for one of Washington’s most read insider magazines, Seapower.

During my career, I’ve worn both the reporter and editor hat, and I’ve even had a few photos published. I’ve written about almost everything you can think of for many types of publications including The Washington Post, USA Today, Wired, Men’s Journal, trade journals and more. I’ve interviewed a wide range of people from indie rock bands to the Pentagon’s highest-ranked officers. I’ve done stories on al-Qaeda’s activities in Spain, a Canadian hockey coach trying to live down his conviction as a pedophile while coaching youths in Spain and much more. I've worked in print, radio and television.

I’ve also done a lot of internal corporate communications writing for Accenture, and I wrote in-depth PR pieces for those country inserts you see in so many American magazines and newspapers.

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Email: matt_hilburn[at]yahoo[dot]com
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