Catherine Parker

About Catherine Parker

Award-winning journalist and travel writer Catherine Parker offers insight to help…

Experience

1. Contributing Writer

   Shebuystravel

   Nov 2015 — Present

   Using WordPress, Catherine writes, or updates, 1,400-word articles on TravelingMom.com, including destinations like U.S. national parks, urban escapes, hotel reviews, cruises and road trips itineraries, amusement parks along with general travel information. She edits for content, grammar and punctuation. She also fact checking existing articles, utilizes SEO with Clearscope and Ubersuggests reports and researches Google key words. Working with state departments of tourism, like the South Dakota Department of Tourism and Travel Orgeon, Catherine creates written and visual content for TravelingMom. In addition, she works with individual city\'s convention and visitors bureaus to create written and visual content for their destinations, like San Antonio, Texas; Palm Springs, California; and Bend, Oregon. Catherine participates in organized press trips on behalf of TravelingMom.com. In addition she pitches to various travel brands to participate in self-guided press trips to create ongoing content. Working with numerous public relations firms, she create written and visual content for brands, like Xanterra Parks and Resorts, Travel Aramark and Forever Resorts.As a writer for TravelingMom, she created content with its corporate clients to create written and visual content as well as reviews to promote their brands, like Walt Disney World, Ford Motor Company, Lumix Cameras by Panasonic and Ricardo Beverly Hills Luggage. She also creates social media content and video for TravelingMom.com platforms. She create content for affiliate marketing as well.

Education

• Austin Community College

  Photography

  1998 — 1998

• Austin Community College

  News Reporting, Photojournalism, Copy Editing, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, Webmaster program

  2012 — 2015

• University of Houston

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters

  1991 — 1996

Skills

• Press Releases
• Microsoft Office
• Web Content
• Html
• Copywriting
• Merchandising
• Social Media
• Grant Writing
• Newsletters
• User Interface Design
• Copy Editing
• Travel Planning
• Public Relations
• Publishing
• Event Planning
• Blogging
• Noaa Weather Spotter
• Endorsements
• Headshots
• Wordpress
• Travel Writing
• Catalogs
• Content Management
• Publications
• Book Reviews
• Microsoft Excel
• Indesign
• E-Commerce
• Marketing Communications
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator
• Photoshop