My name is Matt
Bigelow and I am a journalist, writer and producer living in Nashville, Tennessee, where I work as the Online Content Manager for a medium-sized custom publishing company. I graduated from the Web experience
Southern Living Web Internship
In addition to helping launch the travel blog Tales From the Road (see my post here), I also compiled and posted content to SouthernLiving.com and produced audio slide shows.
Independent study for Tokoni.com
This past fall I worked on an independent study on a recently launched social networking site called Tokoni with another Medill student. 
Tokoni is an experience-based social networking site where users can upload and share specific stories, browse the experiences of other users, and connect their experiences to the ones already uploaded. It is based on the belief that existing social networking sites attempt to connect people, whereas often people prefer to connect through common experiences, such as a trip to Hawaii, a rare illness, or a life event.
For the independent study, I read a lot of the popular literature on online communities, social networking and network theory in general, and moderated focus groups introducing Tokoni to groups of students.
Blogging for USCatholic.org
During my internship at U.S. Catholic magazine, I started a blog called “Signs of the Times” and blogged daily on different news items affecting the Catholic world.
While I wrote Signs of the Times it was one of the top ten landing pages for the U.S. Catholic site.
In addition to blogging, I contributed to editorial discussions for Web-only content and the direction for the site.
Media Management Project
In the spring of 2006 I participated in the Medill Media Management Project. Morris Communications, the owner of the Holland Sentinel newspaper of Holland, Michigan, hired us to research and recommend a new venture for them within the Holland Market.
We completed audience and industry research, formulated the concept of a hyperlocal news site with a weekly print publication, branded both publications, developed a business plan, designed prototypes, shared our designs with businesses and average citizens alike, and presented our findings to Morris and the Holland Sentinel. See designs above.
Since the completion of our consultation, Morris Communications sold the Holland Sentinel to GateHouse Media, which then took our design and launched MyZeeland.com.
