Jill Miller Zimon is an award-winning freelance writer, blogger and political commentator. Her election coverage appeared on Newsweek's The Ruckus and she has provided on-air political analysis for Cleveland public radio (WCPN) and television (WVIZ), CNN, BBC among other broadcast outlets. You can listen to or watch selections of her appearances here. Zimon started her blog, Writes Like She Talks in 2005. In Fall 2007, she joined the Plain Dealer/cleveland.com blog experiment, Wide Open. It was the first paid collaboration between a traditional newspaper and independent political bloggers in the country. This August, she was named to WE Magazine’s list of 101 Women Bloggers to Watch This Fall. Zimon's other blogging work includes being a Contributing Editor for BlogHer.com's Election 2008 coverage and co-editing the Carnival of Ohio Blogs since 2007 on a voluntary basis. She was a board member of the Society of Professional Journalists Cleveland Pro Chapter in 2007 and presented at SPJ's national conference in 2005. Zimon is a frequent conference presenter and article interviewee on the topics of politics, blogging, new media, technology, leadership and the role of women in each of those areas. Examples inlcude: Keynote panelist: 2007 American Association of Political Consultants Academic Outreach Conference Covered: Cleveland Democratic Primary Debate in February 2008; Women, Action and the Media (WAM!2008) conference at MIT; the First Ladies Symposium on media coverage of presidential candidates' spouses Presenter: Case Western Reserve University's Collaboration Technologies workshop; Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Annual Ohio Business Women's Conference and Expo, BlogHer08; White House Project Ohio Go Run! training in Ohio (which she also attended as a trainee and served on its steering committee) Zimon grew up in Connecticut. She earned a joint bachelors degree in government and sociology from Georgetown University and a joint degree in law and social work from Case Western Reserve University. From 1984-1985, she lived in Israel as part of a volunteer program through which she taught English and lived on a kibbutz. She conducted or managed research in the Yale Development Office for three years, before moving to Ohio. After graduate school, and for eight years prior to launching her journalism career, Zimon used her law and social work licenses at a large children and family mental health agency. She has lived in the Cleveland suburbs for more than 20 years.
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at 03:25pm Tue, Nov 24
Denise I'm hungry http://bit.ly/7ubjde
at 02:16pm Tue, Nov 24
Denise Another day of not reading my feeds. This is becoming a habit. I need to break it NOW.
at 01:01pm Tue, Nov 24
Denise Back to this document and its footnootes. I need coffee.
at 07:46am Tue, Nov 24
Denise Texts sent to big kids: "Don't forget to update Loopt on the drive to Charleston so that I don't worry." #momspotting
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sassymonkey at 07:30am Tue, Nov 24
That reminds me. There's something like loopt that is actually available here that I need to check up. Um...what was it called?
Denise at 07:33am Tue, Nov 24
The one @queenofspain uses?
sassymonkey at 07:47am Tue, Nov 24
I think I was thinking of Foursquare maybe? I'm pretty sure that brightkite is available here.
Erin Kotecki Vest at 10:35am Tue, Nov 24
I use Brightkite. Don't even get me started on FourSquare
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Honeybeast at 02:31pm Tue, Nov 24
Oooh, want.