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Marcus Iannozzi , Owner and Principal Communications Consultant

Marcus Iannozzi, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has 15 years of experience in managing print and web-based productions, writing and editing, graphic design, and communications strategy development.  Iannozzi provides comprehensive communications support to his clients, including the design and development of customized websites, online communities, print publications, and training materials—as well as integrated strategies across these formats. His experience has also given him the ability to manage and oversee all stages of a creative project from concept to production.

Online Communities and Interactive, Web-based Tools. Iannozzi specializes in developing and implementing online communities that serve public purposes but also rely on traditional, sound business models to underwrite site maintenance and growth.

For example, Ianncomm designed and developed a national online user community for the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network (ESIN), based at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, and supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health and the William T. Grant Foundation. ESIN's site functions as a primary point of contact for emerging and senior scholars of color, who will use its tools to search for research partners, establish mentorships, and access professional development, employment, and funding opportunities. The site will generate revenue by delivering professional development programs online and enabling higher education administrators to access its membership in order to recruit minority faculty.

Most recently, he was contracted to redesign and repurpose the Academy of Management's journal Executive with Professor Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School. As part of a complete revamping of the journal, Iannozzi will spearhead a pilot project to transition a majority of the publication's content from print to an online format, develop an online community that bridges the academic and practice communities in the field of management, and create a business model that redirects savings from reduced print and distribution costs toward marketing efforts and the support of online activities.

In 2004, he developed a highly interactive information-based website for Prevention Point Philadelphia, an HIV/AIDS services and harm reduction organization that enables its constituencies to manage their relationship with the organization via the web, using volunteer registration and scheduling, email/bulletin board subscription, a client-updatable health resource guide, and a searchable database of partnering providers in the region, which includes schedules for services at the location level.

In 2003, for the Center for the Study of Community Organizing and Intervention Research (COIR) at the University of Pennsylvania, he developed a research tool that provides a secure (SSL), web-based data entry, retrieval, sorting, and export interface for a research project analyzing 6,000 crisis intake forms at a local hospital’s crisis center.

In 2002 Iannozzi designed and implemented Virtual Update (www.virtualupdate.org), an online user community funded by the Sloan Foundation, that enables faculty across the U.S. to share curricula and teaching materials for their higher education graduate-level courses using the software Virtual U.

Translation and Dissemination of Research. For over a decade, Iannozzi has worked for investigators in the fields of education, economics/labor, and social sciences at university-based research centers and has developed substantial expertise in translating policy-related information into accessible, useful, and successful communications vehicles in print and online. For example, he designed, wrote, and edited a print publication series for the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) at MIT that reported findings and conference proceedings. The series, Blueprint, was so well-received that one edition was directly responsible for launching a joint conference between IWER and the U.S. Department of Labor on the Change at Work project.

In addition, Iannozzi designed and implemented the communications plans of two national research and development centers, funded through cooperative agreements with the U.S. Department of Education. He has developed and edited print and web-based communications vehicles for research, practice, and policy audiences; written published summaries of roundtable discussions with researchers, practitioners, and policymakers; and recently designed and developed a 200-page practitioners' guidebook for applying a research-derived fathering indicators framework to support program design, improvement, and evaluation.