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My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Opening paragraph of Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race. 
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, Ch. 93, 'The Castaway

About Pip Wilson, and Bellingen, after a decade of almanacking

Writer Editor  Almanackist Imaginician 
Web and email newsletter designer and content provider

 

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my professional curriculum vitae in brief, below.

I am available for part-time employment
or freelance consultancy, web design & content, etc.
 

He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.

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  I have a Bachelor of Arts, with majors in History and English Literature, from Sydney's Macquarie University.

  In each of the years of my editorship of the colour magazine Simply Living (circulation 35,000), it was awarded the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award.

  The late Petra Kelly, co-founder of Germany's Die Grunen (Greens Party), member of parliament and winner of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), wrote that Simply Living was her favourite alternative magazine in the world and added: "Simply smashing!".

  Eric Utne, owner and founder of the prestigious Utne Reader (America's and the world's 'alternative Reader's Digest'), called Simply Living under my editorship "the best alternative magazine in the world".

  My career has included positions in refugee aid NGOs (Information Officer/PR Manager for Austcare), hospitals (including managing public relations for Sydney Children's Hospital for three years), the Internet, research, journalism and publishing. I have provided content and editing consultancy for Reader's Digest Books, Telstra, the Earth Repair Foundation and many other businesses, publishers and web developers. I have written a technical manual for MBF, one of Australia's largest insurance companies. References available on request.

  In 2008 I was the founding editor of the printing industry website, www.proprint.com.au/, and its email newsletter. I was also News Editor of ProPrint magazine and sub-editor for The Diplomat. I also regularly blogged at The Diplomat's website.

  I am the author of the Book of Days, an online educational compendium of millions of words covering 366 days of the year in folklore, history and more. I believe it is the largest 'On This Day' website in the world. The Book of Days is broadcast daily on WNMC-FM, Traverse City, Michigan, USA and 2BBB-FM, Australia. I have been awarded membership of the prestigious Phenomenal Men Of The Web for my work.

  I am trained to work in both Apple and PC with a variety of computer software, including Flash MX, Word, FrontPage, Photoshop CS2, PaintShop Pro, DREAMmail, CMS, Animation Shop (scroll down for animations), etc. My skills with html are quite good, and with CSS and javascript "cut and paste only".

  Wilson's Almanac is the home of my daily illustrated ezine, which I founded with one subscriber on January 1, 2001. Now, there are more than 3,560 members worldwide, and with more than 4,000 web pages online. At time of writing, the Wilson's Almanac daily ezine is Yahoo! Groups' third largest email list in the Mythology and Folklore category, out of 7,361 ezines worldwide. See readers' opinions of the ezine.

  More than 450 websites have chosen to recommend the Almanac to their readers. 'Wilsons Almanac' returns approximately 1,120,000 results on Google. I have compiled a database of nearly nine million words and several thousand images on subjects covered in Wilson's Almanac, such as folklore, mythology, social justice and history.

  Since January 1, 2001, I have published more than 350 feature articles, almost all written by me, on the Almanac website.

   I have worked as a sub-editor on more than 15 Australian magazines, including Australian Equestrian; Handy Fishing Guide; 4WD Off-Road Australia; Gold, Gem and Treasure; ProPrint; Modern Boating; Australian Golf Digest; Hot 4s; Street Commodores; Australian Country Craft & Decorating; Volkswagen Australia and Camping Life and Leisure.

   I have had my articles published in many periodicals, including No Limits; The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin with Newsweek, and two cover stories in Good Weekend.

   I have worked as a freelance researcher for the advertising industry and other clients. Two colleagues and I consulted under the name 'Walking Encyclopaedia' and developed a strong client base, including dozens of advertising agencies.

My writing has been published in a school textbook by the eminent Longman's publishing house, Canada. Likewise, some has been translated into Portuguese on the WWW. I write feature articles for 1stPlace Design, Australia's largest search engine optimization design company, and WaratahWeb (website and content-management system). Photos of mine have been selected for inclusion in Schmap Australia.

  I also co-founded, co-wrote with my late friend, Jeannine (J-9) Wilson (no relation), and co-published Almost Prophetic Quotes, a daily ezine with 1,500+ members. I founded and moderated another email discussion group (eight topics of discussion) with more than 170 members, for more than two years.

  On June 2, 2003, I was awarded Geek of the Week on the Internet. My blog was awarded Blog of the Day.

Omniparticle is an example of a website I built from scratch for a client and I am happy to build more. My client in Washington writes "I would like to introduce my webdesigner, Pip Wilson, to you. I am extremely happy with his magic. His service, his price and his mind are one of the finest on planet earth at this time."

  I wrote The FeelGood Manual to show simple ways that people can feel better and happier in a short time (see unsolicited testimonials). This book was published in Australia and Asia in June, 2008 by Inkstone Press.

  I also have a background in youth work, having been a CYSS (Community Youth Support Scheme) officer in NSW, and manager of an inner-city street kids youth centre in Perth.

  I do all the writing, design and promotion of the Wilson's Almanac daily e-zine. (Unsolicited opinions of subscribers may be read at this page.)  I also designed the website www.wilsonsalmanac.com. which contains up to 9 million words.

  ABC Radio, Australia's national State-run broadcaster (2BL, Sydney), for a long time featured me regularly in popular Wilson's Almanac segments, presented by Lisa Forrest and others. A similar program is currently broadcast daily on 2BBB-FM, and I appeared each week on ABC Mid North Coast Radio in a program called 'Blogging Around', for seven months in 2005.

  In 1978, I was a foundation member of the Sydney Permaculture Institute, one of the very first Permaculture associations in the world.
 

My associate and friend, Paul Brunton, at the Mitchell Library

  I initiated, in the foremost library of Australiana (Sydney's Mitchell Library, part of the State Library of New South Wales), the Rainbow Archives, now the biggest collection of alternative Australiana in the world. I have been Honorary Field Librarian since 1986, and have references from the Mitchell Head Librarian and Manuscripts Librarian.

  My professional references are numerous and include Australian Member of Parliament Senator Dr Bob Brown, former science educator the late Prof. Julius Sumner Miller, prominent academic, writer and broadcaster, Dr Keith Suter, and author, journalist and broadcaster, Richard Neville.

  Mr H Besodi, President of the Australian-Afghan Association, has kindly written a reference for my 12 years of voluntary work as the Honorary Director of Refugee Resettlement for that association. Over that time, my position involved the resettlement of several hundred women and children at risk. For some months I worked voluntarily for Meals on Wheels in my local neighbourhood (Woolgoolga, NSW) until I moved from the area. I work in an honorary capacity as a sub-editor for the African Aids Foundation.

  I was a foundation committee member of the Australian National Refugee Week Committee and managed PR for its first public awareness campaigns. I was a foundation committee member of The Bellingen Institute.

  Recent projects include founding the Blogmanac (about 400 readers daily), Sandy Beach Almanac and Yellow Pages. In October, 2003, I founded Tell J-9 You've Read It!, an online information program about IBC (Inflammatory Breast Cancer). I am founder of CounterCulture Wikia, and co-founder and co-designer of the Free Speech Australia website. I founded and designed Synchronicity Central, which has approximately 500 members. I founded and administer two Flickr groups: Uncaged! Birds in our homes  and Rainbow Region.

   I wrote Faces in the Street, an historical novel about Henry and Louisa Lawson and their political and artistic associates. As of July 13, 2008, it was the third bestseller by its publisher. I also published the 100,000-word Louisa Lawson and Henry Lawson Chronology (free online).

   On Bellingen Poetry Nights (last Friday night of each month in Bellingen), I regularly perform my own poetry.

   I am the playwright and lyricist of the satirical full-length musical comedy, BRAND BELLINGEN, performed in 2008 to a sold-out house with an estimated 300 people unfortunately unable to get unavailable tickets.

   In May, 2010, I created the website Bello Bards, a showcase for poets of Bellingen Shire, Australia, of which I am one.

I am available for consultation on worthwhile projects.

All good wishes,

Pip

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