About Karen Fraase….

By Karen Fraase

Monday, 01 February 1993 03:14PM CST

Section: Announcements

Karen Fraase Karen Fraase is accomplished in all of the aspects of the print and online editorial processes and specializes in general writing, editing, and process development consulting.

Experience

2004 - present Dialysis Ethics
Advisor to the board of directors

1979 - present ARTS & FARCES LLC
Co-founder and vice president

  • Publication project management
  • Information design and architecture
  • General writing (fiction and non-fiction)
  • Instructional design, implementation, and delivery
  • Publishing (print, electronic, and online)
  • General business consulting
  • Process development consulting

Education

1974-79 West Georgia College
B.A. Humanistic psychology

  • Creativity
  • Holistic studies
  • Values clarification
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Transpersonal psychology
  • Graduate-level study

Professional experience

1979 - present ARTS & FARCES LLC, Saint Paul, MN
Co-founder, vice president, and publisher

ARTS & FARCES is a multi-faceted communications concern specializing in information design and architecture, user experience design, publishing and content strategy, writing and editing, and general business and technology consulting.

  • Co-managed the company’s business processes
  • Developed, maintained, and managed company’s process development practice
  • Defined and implemented company’s web and print strategy, usability goals, methodology, information plans, and validation procedures
  • Provided process development services, business consulting services, publication services, and editorial services to company’s clients, ranging from sole practitioners to members of Fortune 100

1988 - present Independent contractor, various locations

Project editor

  • Designed, edited, and published end-user documentation for clients ranging from one-person businesses and successful startups to Fortune 100 companies
  • Managed client and contractor teams
  • Defined and implemented publication strategy
  • Defined and implemented information plan, content strategy, information architecture, usability goals, content specification, validation, and document testing procedures

Publications

  • ARTS & FARCES internet; ARTS & FARCES, 1993 - present
  • Information Eclipse: Privacy and Access in America; ARTS & FARCES, 1999 (general nonfiction; editor)
  • Internet Membership Kit series (2 volumes); Ventana, 1994 (best seller, first suite of Internet productivity software with national connectivity; internal editor)
  • Internet Tour Guide series (3 volumes); Ventana, 1993-94 (international best seller, multiple translations; first non-UNIX-specific Internet books; internal editor)
  • Guide to the Macintosh Underground; Macmillan, 1993 (with Bob LeVitus; internal editor)
  • Rapid Reference Guide series (15 volumes); Irwin, 1992-93 (no-nonsense, 100-page guides to leading computing productivity applications; internal editor)
  • Structured Publishing From the Desktop: Frame Technology’s FrameMaker; Irwin, 1992 (first book about FrameMaker; internal editor)
  • Groupware for the Macintosh: A Complete Guide to Collaborative Computing; Irwin, 1991 (networking guide in the era when networking meant a long printer cable; internal editor)
  • Farallon MediaTracks: The Ultimate Training Tool; Irwin, 1990 (guide to Farallon’s computer training software environment; internal editor)
  • Hypermedia series (3 volumes); Scott Foresman, 1988-89 (introduction, methodology, and reference guides to using hypertext; internal editor)

Videography

  • Various independent videography productions and documentaries; 1979-82, various underwriters and self-financed productions
  • Strange Apples: Creativity in Special Populations; 1980-82, underwritten by West Georgia College
  • The Meaders Family: North Georgia Folk Potters; 1979-80, underwritten by the Georgia Council for the Arts, Georgia Humanities Council, and the Smithsonian Institution

Selected additional activities

  • Contributing editor, Cyberspace Settlers Guide (internet publication), 1995-96
  • Editor, ARTS & FARCES Review (online publication), 1984-87
  • Contributor, OWL Int’l. Introduction to Guide project (electronically-distributed hypertext publication), 1987
  • Contributor, Minnesota Creative Source Book, 1988
  • Contributor, MacTV 2.0, 1988
  • Participation in League of Women Voters studies, 1982-99:
    • Minnesota Judicial Election Study
    • Saint Paul Public School Choice
    • Saint Paul Mayor’s Task Force for Mentally Ill
    • Minnesota Education Study
    • National Security Study
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