About Karen Fraase….
By Karen Fraase
Monday, 01 February 1993 03:14PM CST
Section: Announcements
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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