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Lisa Tolliver

Agent: 360 MERIDIAN, LLC
Scarsdale, New York, United States

Email: info [AT] 360meridian [DOT] com

Home page: http://www.lisatolliver.com

Dubbed "One of Westchester's Rising Stars" in 2000 (by Whitney Radio Group Owner-President, William O'Shaughnessy), saluted as a Phenomenal Woman in 2005 (by Emmis Communications) and appointed a National Poetry Month Ambassador in 2006, Lisa Tolliver (A.B. Harvard, M.B.A. and post-graduate Columbia), is Principal Owner of professional services firm 360 MERIDIAN, LLC. There, she provides success coaching, management and e-business consulting, and communications services to private and public sector clients. She also hosts several business and public affairs radio showslectures internationally, serves on several organizational boards, and teaches university and non-credit courses.

Tolliver's first paid writing jobs included stints grading essays for junior high school teachers. In high school, she won an Alpha Kappa Alpha Writing Award and Black Elks (Improved Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks) Oratorical Contest and edited her class yearbook. During college, she amassed additional writing, editing and publishing experience at United Press International, the Radcliffe Publishing Office, Harvard Student Agencies Publishing (preparing LET'S GO travel guides and other manuscripts for publication), and numerous work-for-hire engagements.

Her publications include two telecom industry guidebooks and numerous articles, regulatory filings, applied research studies, strategic plans, educational materials and creative works. She has also exhibited ethnographic fieldwork and documentary photography in initiatives sponsored by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center and Brigham Young University/Utah Heritage Project. She now serves on several editorial and peer review boards, writes several columns (at Lisa Tolliver On Air and Online, Emergency Preparedness and Safety Tips, BlogCritics.org and SCORE Westchester's SCORE306 Wordpress Blog), and helps numerous "brick" and "click" clients develop and distribute digital and print content for entertainment, commercial, educational and community-based audiences.

A sample of Tolliver's published works and broadcasts is listed below. For more information, visit www.LisaTolliver.com.

Interests: (Extracurriculars:) community service, downhill skiing, water sports, word/logic/math puzzles, the arts & cultural activities.

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: Yes

 

Published works:

Nonfiction

  • Using visual media for education and change management: Some social and psychological mechanisms that make visual media potent tools for promoting learning
  • Focus on disaster recovery: New services address need for prevention/recovery [article in THE MARKETING FORUM]
  • May 5 is Cinco de Mayo (an historical holiday) and this month's Bonza Bottler Day (a marketer's dream)
  • Getting People to Adapt: Using Visual Media for Education and Change Management
  • The NYNEX Vision of the Future Conference [Introduction, synopsis and proceedings]
  • NYNEX Service Company Business Plan and Related Communications
  • Ganging Up Against the Bad Guys
  • [Blog] Lisa Tolliver On Air and Online
  • Intellipath II Digital Centrex Disaster Recovery Service [article in NYNEX INFORMATION LETTER]
  • FLEXPATH Digital PBX Disaster Recovery Service [artice in the NYNEX INFORMATION LETTER]
  • Help Girls Fly And Achieve Other Fantastic Feats
  • Creating an Active Learning Community for CPREAS (Community Philanthropy, Race & Equity in the American South), an initiative within the Ford Foundation-sponsored Community Philanthropy and Civic Culture Portfolio.
  • Academic Manuals and Curricular Materials
  • Alternative Serving Wire Center Service [chapter in DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES FROM NEW YORK TELEPHONE]
  • June 10, 2006: A Big Day For Small Cities And Towns
  • [Blog] Emergency Preparedness Tips
  • Intellipath II Disaster Recovery Service [chapter in DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES FROM NEW YORK TELEPHONE]
  • Articles in the Federal Issues Newsletter
  • National Hurricane Awareness Week: Trends, Tips, and Tools
  • Reseller's Handbook
  • Tradition Runs Through It: Environment and Recreation in Provo Canyon [Exhibition, Ethnographic Study & Archive]
  • Speeches written for business executives
  • Force in Focus: The Official Newsletter of Rainbow Sports and the Rainbow Sports Task Force (a division of Rainbow PUSH)
  • 06-06-06 is a Bodacious Bonza Bottler Day
  • "Madea's Family Reunion"--laugh a lot, enjoy the view & seriously, uplift your consciousness
  • Alternative Serving Wire Center Service [article in NYNEX INFORMATION LETTER]
  • Vision of the future for the NYNEX regulated subsidiaries [article in NYNEX ANNUAL REVIEW]
  • ON TV: Flavor of Love Season 2 Digs Deeper, Scrapes Bottom
  • Rainbows After the Storm [autobiographical short story]
  • Virtual communities: What, who, when, where, how, why and...why not?
  • The Effects of Military Involvement On a Multicultural American Family [Multimedia cultural documentation project]
  • FLEXPATH Digital PBX Disaster Recovery Service [chapter in DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES FROM NEW YORK TELEPHONE]
  • 'Snakes on a Plane' isss Box Office King
  • Travel Review: Austrian Airline's smaller planes are uncomfortable for long hauls, even for smaller passengers
  • Getting People to Adapt: Using Visual Media for Education and Change Management [abstract for a panel discussion]
  • Selection of regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission
  • Expanding Digital Opportunity in New York City Public Schools: Profiles of Innovators and Leaders Who Make a Difference
  • Flavor Flav celebrates National Safety Month
  • Movie Review: Madea's Family Reunion
  • Poetry

  • Balance
  • Patsy's Doubts (Fool's Errand)
  • Coach This! (in BEST POEMS AND POETS OF 2003 anthology)
  • A Haiku Celebrating Educators (in BEST POEMS AND POETS OF 2004 anthology)
  • Scripts

  • Ubi Trek (a "Star Trek" takeoff on the Ubiquitous Perspective of Culture) [script and stage performance]
  • Bring Home the Bacon
  • Other

  • T3: Trends, Tips & Tools for Everyday Living [Radio Show]
  • SCORE-Counselors to America's Small Business [Radio Show]
  • Boomerang Contest (Best Foot Forward) [photograph]
  • Curricula, Syllabi and Other Course Materials
  • The Lisa Tolliver Show [Radio Show]
  • [Column] BlogCritics Writer: Lisa Tolliver
  • Your Business Matters [Radio Show]