Mark Folse is an experienced writer, and editor of over 30 years experience, with a career including journalism, public relations, and internal business communication. His experience includes:
Social Media: Advocacy essayist in the post-Katrina period, founder of Odd Words, the New Orleans literary listing service and support of non-profit/advocacy groups leveraging multiple social media platform
s including the primary blog platforms (Blogger, Word Press, Tumblr), Facebook and Twitter along with currently less popular platforms such as MySpace. My work on the Wet Bank Guide blog was cited by film producer David Simon as one of the inspirations for his television series Treme, listed as a “go-to” to source by French national radio in 2005. My current literary and local interest blog Toulouse Street was listed as one of the Ten Best New Orleans blogs by Smith Magazine and aggregated by About.Com’s short list of New Orleans blogs. Business Writing: Twenty years’ experience in business writing in a financial services (banking) environment, with a focus on communicating technical information to non-technical management audiences. My work includes a full range of communications from status reports and presentations to senior management to semi-technical documents such as test and release plans for computer software in a financial services environment. Public Relations: Six years’ experience as a press secretary on Capitol Hill in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives including strategy development, target media vector identification, creation of press releases, speeches, event coordination, spokesperson. Additional experience with PR in local party political organizations, and for non-profit groups. Editor: Co-editor and founder of Gallatin & Toulouse Press (2010) with responsibility for line editing, selection of works and book layout and publishing. Newspaper editing from 1978-1986 including copy editing and headline writing.
