Josh Fitzwater Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Columbus, Ohio Area

As founder of Holden + Ellis, Josh is the creative force that leads the development of projects to ensure that innovation meets practicality for all clients. In summation, he keeps the metaphorical pedal to the metaphorical metal. With a background that spans directing a creative agency's digital strategy and account relationships, strategic development of online marketing for major colleges and universities, mobile-based campaigns and action-oriented messaging for print, online and video--he’ll guide each project from creative to completion.Josh holds a master’s in marketing and communication and has spoken at multiple national conferences on topics such as social media CRM marketing, video narrative marketing, digital crisis communication and late-millennial consumerism.

Columbus, Ohio Area

As Director of Digital Strategy and Accounts, Josh was the driving force for Cement’s external work. Working with national and local clients, Josh was able to grow Cement’s bottom-line while improving the quality of work produced for web, content and campaigns.

FWD: Video & Social Branding offers a branding service that’s reimagined, revitalized, and redefined. The company was founded on the belief that the most powerful way to connect a brand to its audience is to harness its narrative—told through inspired video and social storytelling. This method captures the underlying themes and personal sentiments that propel people to purchase products. All it takes is a little forward momentum. We specialize in video and social digital branding for companies big and small.

Serving a volunteer leadership position at the American Marketing Association, Columbus Chapter, responsibilities include creating, optimizing, and analyzing all e-communication.

Gambier, Ohio

Strategic digital content that is both created and curated is at the epicenter of my online roadmap as Director of Social Media at Kenyon College. Using online and social landscapes, my focus is better content for segmented audiences that aid in the facilitation of institutional goals. As director, my responsibilities are: Developing and managing the execution of Kenyon’s social spectrum through a myriad of online channels; creating rich, engaging content focused on relationship building, brand awareness, and lead generation in relation to defined target audiences; strategic development of an institutional decentralized social media policy; generating integrated marketing plans; development and management of admissions and other institutional blogs; overseeing the conceptual development and execution of video projects; providing creative direction and communication strategy for admissions, alumni, and campus-based campaigns; creating and implementing social media training programs for employees, and optimizing the College’s Web efforts through SEO, in-bound linking strategies, and leveraging cross-channeled outreach to drive users to applicable destinations.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Teach a graduate-level course focused on social media strategy, development, implementation, and ROI measurement regarding marketing-related social media principles and best practices. The course also builds upon core e-Marketing and user behavior principles to provide insight into SEO, engaging content, and connecting the marketing mix dots.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Provided strategic social media development, conceptual and messaging oversight in multimedia projects for TV, Web, and radio as well as design and editing experience.

Crafting messaging and copy points to be conveyed through multiple channels via print, web, social media, television, and radio.

Editorial-focused feature articles regarding entertainment, business, and fashion for Columbus, Ohio and surrounding areas.

Assistant editor and writer for corporate publication, as well as creation and design for marketing brochures, presentations, company events, branding, and proposals.

M.S., Marketing & Communication

Thesis hypothesis examined open source social content as a predictive modeling tool to determine behavior

B.A., Public Relations & Political Science