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- RT @TIME: You haven't read this interview with 'Arrested Development' creator Mitch Hurwitz yet? Come on! | http://t.co/t2LE5k82rq
- @LoveLifeFit ain't that the truth. Glad I'm not a teen!
- teens these days. #disturbed
- RT @CNET: Paul Adams, Facebook's global head of brand design, has left the social network to join startup Intercom http://t.co/WybELNXBiS
- Oh hi, vegan chai #donutbar [pic] — http://t.co/05uhOOxmYq
- Heck yeah! Vegan donuts on Wed & Fri. Happy Jenn. (@ Donut Bar) http://t.co/y0YbtZjUhT
- RT @DamonLindelof: Best. Vine. EVER. http://t.co/fOUu9BwtgX
- @MikeIsaac OMG. I die.
- Donut Bar better have one of their vegan donuts tomorrow or there will be problems. It's been that kind of week.
- Report: Google mapping Waze takeover http://t.co/CHHQ6mR0qC
- RT @dkberman: Few noticed, but AT&T has raised annual bills for its 115m customers by $7.32 each. Meet the special 'fee.' http://t.co/CMml6…May 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- wait. this is f*cked up. -- AT&T adds 'administrative fee' to wireless bills http://t.co/6L4OX0BNeT
- By my count, Sheryl Sandberg has sold 1,566,829 shares for $62,891,408 in 2013. I bet she didn't play Powerball last weekend like I did ...
- Foursquare partners with Gnip to sell check-in stream http://t.co/Cj3ghyNl32
- @johnpemble good. stay strong. we can fight this together. lol
- I can't pronounce GIF as JIF. I just can't do it. Makes me really want peanut butter & I don't need another reason to crave PB.
- Baby Jenn! #tbt http://t.co/Tn9boL4nrx
- great click bait! RT @adage: Young Brad Pitt Stars in 1991 Levi's Ad, Pantless and in the Desert #tbt #levis140 http://t.co/GHM0yHDL0M
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- More trouble at Home for Facebook.
- Yahoo and Tumblr: a tale of two audiences. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57585333-93/young-and-old-a-side-by-side-look-at-tumblr-and-yahoo-audiences/
- Facebook's freshman year as a public company played out like an MTV drama in which Mark Zuckerberg was forced to navigate through an awkward accommodation with the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street.
- Google isn't asking you to dump Facebook, but it has added plenty of incentives to entice you to log in with G+, especially if you have an Android phone.
- So now that you have the new Timeline, do you use sections?
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Jennifer Van Grove is a senior reporter at CNET where she leads coverage on social media news.
Previously, Jennifer was a writer at VentureBeat and a senior reporter for Mashable.com, the world’s largest independent web technology news site.
She has years of experience reporting on startups, industry trends, breaking technology news stories, social media sites, and digital brand campaigns.
Jennifer also has experience in television, having introduced social media reporting to the NBC San Diego newsroom. Each week, Jennifer would interview top industry executives and startup founders live via Skype during the morning news broadcast.
Jennifer's past accomplishments include organizing the San Diego Tweetup and helping advise companies large and small on their social media strategy.
[Jennifer has also organized two separate group trips to the Price is Right, but has yet to walk away a winner. Her brother Jeffrey, however, won a car and more than $16,000 in cash and prizes (when Bob Barker was still hosting the show). Clearly, Jennifer brings luck to those around her.]
You can find Jennifer pretty much anywhere on the web under the handle "jbruin." She often tweets, instagrams, tumbles and posterizes on tech and the world at large, which means some content may occasionally be NSFW.
Experience- Jan 2013 - PresentSenior Reporter / CBS Interactive
Lead social coverage for CNET.
- Nov 2011 - Dec 2012Writer / VentureBeat
- Nov 2008 - Oct 2011Senior Reporter / Mashable
Covering startup, business and social media news, as well writing analytical features on industry trends for Mashable.com.
- Nov 2009 - Oct 2010Technology Correspondent / NBC Universal
NBC San Diego 7/39 morning news correspondent, reporting on the social media and web stories that matter to mainstream audiences.
- Jan 2008 - Dec 2009Community and Social Media Consultant / Self-Employed
- Mar 2008 - Mar 2009Blogger / StartupSD.net
StartupSD.net is a blog that connects the San Diego Web community with San Diego web news, events and collaboration.
- Aug 2007 - Dec 2007FLL/JFLL Community Manager / FIRST
The mission of FIRST is to inspire kids to pursue careers in Science and Technology, so when I was offered the chance to bring social media to two of their programs (both partnered with LEGO), I jumped at the opportunity. I spent 5 months working full-time in house (and 6 months on contract) helping develop the strategy around a social site to support the Junior FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League programs.
- Jul 2006 - Aug 2007Community Manager / Luth Research
Luth Research marks the nascence of my professional love affair with online communities. Although I was hired in an IT administrative role, within a few weeks I was brought into the business development side of the company, and fairly quickly transitioned into the Community Manager position. I spent the first several months with my ear to the streets, all the while staying focused on the mission to transform the online panel into more of a community with common interests around providing feedback via online survey research.
Some of my responsibilities included:
- Fostering a community environment within the panel, promoting participation and conversation.
- Ensuring all Client research projects were supplied with the highest quality survey respondents.
- Creating neat, accurate, and accountable record keeping of panel members including new, established, invalid, sub panels and other criteria for ongoing information to establish company benchmarks and reach goals. - Mar 2006 - Jul 2006IT Project Administrator / Luth Research
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1999 - 2004University of California, Los AngelesB.A. in English
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Interests:Language, writing, community, blogs, social media, skiing, jogging, CrossFit, Padres baseball, San Diego Chargers, UCLA Bruins athletics and really bad (but mostly great) music
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Posts
Multimedia Producer Evan Wexler created this infographic showing how photographer Curtis Joe Walker worked with Senior Editor Charlie White to cover CES 2011 for Mashable. Amazing what technology can do, eh?
TechCrunch getting acquired by AOL is pretty interesting to me. I mailed the team earlier today to congratulate them on their accomplishment, but I thought I’d blog a few thoughts too.
I’m excited about the deal. It’s a huge validation for our industry that cements my convictions: Blogging…
By Ben Parr, Co-Editor
Starting in October, Mashable’s San Francisco Bureau (@MashableSF) is gaining a new team member: our very own Jennifer Van Grove.Jenn has been with Mashable since late 2008, and all of that time she’s been based out of sunny San Diego, blogging away from the…
friends don’t let friends work at Zynga
Former senior employee, Zynga
“THERE IS A LITTLE PONY IN THE APPLE STORE. What the hell? A beautiful little pony, with a flowing mane, the likes of which my sister would have killed to get for Christmas when she was 7 or 8. And, NOONE is looking at this thing.”
VA Tech vs. Boise State at FedExField, 90k+ people. JUMBOTROOOOOOOOOOON + 4sq go nice together! Something tells me there’ll be more of these kinds of spots at an arena near you! :)
(p.s. it was a good game too!)
Philip Rivers and Nick Hardwick on the West Coast cover of Sports Illustrated.
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