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WHO I AM

My name is Dorian Block (née Salomé Block) and I am a digital marketer from Santa Fe, New Mexico with a background focused in entertainment marketing. I have been working in the digital marketing field for about four years now. My cross-sector career spans many industries, promoting for big brands with large followings including world-renowned opera company, the Santa Fe Opera, and pro-soccer team New Mexico United. In order to gain experience having more autonomy over a brand, I Co-Founded MaeBerry Cosplay, a website and blog which is now ranked in the '75 top cosplay blogs' by Feedspot. I hold my B.A. in English with an Arts Administration concentration but wanted to legitimize my skillset in digital marketing through formal education so I am currently working towards a Digital Media Marketing Certificate partnered with Facebook through Central New Mexico College which will be complete in at the end of 2020.​

I am interested in all aspects of digital storytelling because I want to learn how to more effectively craft narratives in media and online platforms. I would love to enhance the blogs I already create on a monthly basis as well as those I craft for organizations I work for. In addition to the digital yarns I spin I am a writer working on that elusive novel and anything I can learn about crafting a narrative will invariably improve my storytelling on non-digital platforms as well.

WHAT IS THIS BLOG

As I started my Digital Media Marketing Certification, it quickly became clear to me exactly how hands-on this degree would be. Both of the professors in my first two courses asked that we create a blog site external from BlackboardLearn on which to post our assignments as blogs. This will not only serve as that platform, but I hope it will extend beyond to educate others while recording my course portfolio.

 

As a hobby blogger for MaeBerry Cosplay, it had always been my intention to narrate my progress through this degree and perhaps post some tidbits I learned for my readers from the extended blogging communities I am a part of. These requisites just gave direction to what otherwise would have been my sometimes aimless ramblings in the form of prompts and other digital assignments I can feature on this platform for a wider viewership than just my classmates and professors. 

WHAT I DO

Here is a quick breakdown for those who were not directed here from my portfolio website of what I do both professionally and as a hobby as it relates to this degree:

  • DIGITAL MARKETER

I have 5 years of experience in nonprofit and entertainment marketing online for big brands.

 

  • WRITER

 

I am working on my breakout novel while actively submitting a chapbook, short stories to anthologies and other poetry for publishing,

 

  • BLOGGER, PRESS & PRESENTER

 

I Co-Founded an award-winning blog through which I cover conventions around the country as press and present panels. 

HELLO, 

 

MY NAME

IS DORIAN BLOCK

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