Chris Thilk Email & Phone Number

At GoNoodle I'm responsible for programming select videos to the front pages of sites and apps meant to appeal to either Teacher or Parent audiences, both of which have different needs as they, and the children in their care, use GoNoodle differently. That's meant not only coordinating with Marketing, Sales and other departments to make sure corporate goals are achieved but also making sure the programmed layouts will resonate with kids, usually of grade school age. That's been incredibly rewarding as I know the work I'm doing is having an impact on kids, whether it's helping to teach them SEL skills or just encouraging them to dance, move and stay active.

Aurora, Il

Greater Chicago Area

Managing social media and community management.

Manage content publishing programs, provide on the ground support for client events, develop content marketing strategies, manage teams and act as editor in chief of the Voce Nation blog and of the Voce agency website.

My day to day work involved researching and brainstorming on new media strategies for clients. That included blogs, podcasts, wikis and RSS. I also wrote regularly for the agency site openthedialogue.com.

After the folding of AdJab I began writing regularly for MarketingVox, another advertising/marketing focused news site where I covered developments in online and social media marketing.

For just shy of I wrote for a number of the blogs owned by the Weblogs, Inc and later Aol. Those included the Cinematical movie blog, the TVSquad television blog and especially - and primarily - the AdJab advertising news blog, where I eventually took over as editor as well as continuing to be one of the primary writers.

I was part of what became the Digital Media team at Bacon's for about six years. My responsibilities included researching web sites for inclusion in our database and crafting keyword searches for our clients.While there I started the now-deleted Bacon's Blog, which covered the emerging world of social media and social media marketing and wrote two white papers, one on blogs and RSS and one on Podcasting.

For about two years I wrote a regular column for FilmThreat.com called Movie Marketing Madness, where I would review not the movie but the marketing campaign for the movie prior to release. So I would analyze as best I could how well I felt the trailers, posters and other materials did in reaching and speaking to their target audience. Initially this was simple - Trailers, Posters, Website - but as campaigns grew in complexity and savviness, particularly in the area of using social media so did the columns.