About Karen Fraase….

By Karen Fraase

Monday, 01 February 1993 03:14PM CDT

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.

Summary of qualifications

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 - 1979 West Georgia College
B.A. Humanistic psychology

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

1964 - 1968 A.L. Miller High School
High school diploma

Professional experience

2004 - Present Hasten down the wire
Publisher and Contributing Editor (Independent Contractor)

  • Managed the publication’s business processes
  • Wrote and edited essays and articles

2002 - 2004 Michael Fraase.com
Publisher and Contributing Editor (Independent Contractor)

  • Managed the publication’s business processes
  • Wrote and edited essays and articles

1993 - 2002 ARTS & FARCES internet
Publisher and Managing Editor (Independent Contractor)

  • Wrote and edited essays and articles


1997 - 1998 SuperPC International, Inc.
Documentation Project Editor (Independent Contractor)

  • Defined and implemented methodology
  • Coordinated client, contractor, and engineering teams
  • Defined and implemented information plan
  • Defined publication usability goals
  • Researched and helped identify audience and environment profile
  • Defined and implemented publication strategy
  • Developed content specification
  • Created and implemented style guide
  • Established validation, usability, and document testing procedures
  • Supervised design and production teams

1996 - 1997 Training Space, Inc.
Project Editor (Independent Contractor)

  • Designed overall structure, information architecture, and subject taxonomy for a training-oriented website
  • Designed and implemented web-based courseware
  • Designed HTML training for corporate clientele
  • Defined and implemented methodology
  • Coordinated client, contractor, and engineering teams
  • Defined and implemented information plan
  • Defined website usability goals
  • Researched and helped identify audience and environment profile
  • Performed task analysis
  • Defined web strategy
  • Developed content specification
  • Created and implemented site style guide
  • Established validation, usability, and document testing procedures
  • Supervised design and production teams

1995 InforMNs
Documentation Project Editor (Independent Contractor)

Adapted end-user documentation library for Macintosh, MS-Windows, and MS-DOS Internet connectivity (configuration, user guide for each platform) for use in every public school facility throughout Minnesota. (See MRNet project below)

1993 - 1995 MRNet
Documentation Project Editor (Independent Contractor)

  • Edited end-user documentation library for Macintosh, MS-Windows, and MS-DOS Internet connectivity (configuration, user guide for each platform)
  • Defined and implemented methodology
  • Defined and implemented information plan
  • Defined publication usability goals
  • Researched and helped identify audience and environment profile
  • Performed task analysis
  • Defined and implemented publication strategy
  • Developed content specification
  • Created and implemented style guide
  • Established validation, usability, and document testing procedures
  • Supervised design and production teams
  • Produced multiple editions

1988 - 1994 Various companies
Documentation Project Editor (Independent Contractor)

Edited end-user documentation for various hardware and software products

1988 - 1989 3M Data Products Division
Lead Technical Editor (Independent Contractor)

Edited end-user documentation for tape backup hardware and software targeted for enterprise-level network administrators

1987 Mirror Technologies, Inc.
Documentation Project Editor

Edited end-user documentation for tape backup hardware and software (workgroup level), hard disk drive, and telecommunications and networking software products

1984 - 1987 ARTS & FARCES Review
Managing Editor

Edited monthly and weekly publications covering the computer industry (product reviews, opinion pieces, and news items)

1980 - 1984 ARTS & FARCES
Various independent video productions

Produced and directed independent videography including short subjects, investigative journalism, documentaries, music, and performance art

1979 Georgia Humanities Council
Meaders Family Folk Potters

Produced and directed a documentary covering a family of North Georgia folk potters. Co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution

1979 West Georgia College
Strange Apples: Creativity in Special Populations

Produced and co-directed a documentary covering the topic of creativity in special populations (physically challenged, mentally retarded, youthful offenders, etc.)

Publications

  • Information Eclipse: Privacy and Access in America; ARTS & FARCES, 1999 (Project 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 - 1994 (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 - 1993 (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 - 1989 (introduction, methodology, and reference guides to using hypertext; Internal editor)

Additional professional activities

  • Contributing editor, Cyberspace Settlers Guide (Internet publication), 1995 - 1996
  • Editor, ARTS & FARCES Review (online publication), 1984 - 1987
  • Participation in League of Women Voters studies, 1982 - 1999:
    • 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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