Friday, August 21, 2009

WHO AM I?



Alexandra Camille Asselin Hernandez Bio
Alex Asselin Hernadez currently works at NBC.com as the Online Community Manager while getting her M.A. in Communication Management from the University of Southern California specializing in Online Communities. Alexandra Asselin was born in Paris, France and spent her childhood between the United States, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic. She received her B.A. in Communications from American University in Washington DC, and later moved to Los Angeles to be a freelance film editor. After working on editing for an ongoing webseries, she became increasingly interested in Digital Media and the Internet as a marketing tool. Before NBC, Alex worked at Revver- an online video sharing site, that she helped build from the ground up. At Revver, she worked closely with developers to ensure a user-friendly experience, she moderated the community of hundreds of video creators, did editorial and assisted in producing content for the web. Alex was also heavily involved with content acquisition and creator development. She has worked closely with the Creative Commons movement and helped define and protect the rights of online creators. If you want to talk about Online Media as it pertains to social change, community, open source, peer production, UGC, viral marketing, social media marketing, UE, internet video, QA, social networking, or monetization models, she just may be your girl! Alex is a firm believer in using the Internet as a catalyst for social change. She hails from Washington DC but after 6 years calls Los Angeles her home where she lives in Echo Park with her newlywed husband, 2 pets.