Managing Editor & Client Liason January 2012 to Present - Wanderlust and Lipstick

• Manage 20+ bloggers on Wanderlustandlipstick.com
• Provide insight into SEO, Wordpress Multi-Site, and Social Media strategy
• Provide lessons for bloggers on effectively using SEO and Social Media, as well as training in travel writing when necessary
• Approve and edit WanderTales submissions & writing contest submissions
• Help organize WanderTours as the primary liason with tour participants

Ghostwriter February 2007 to Present - Tammy Levent, CEO of Elite Travel Management Group

• Write regular Destination Wedding advice columns for AOL’s AisleDash.com, Brides.com, and Weddzilla 
• Write monthly articles for publications including Arizona Bride, DuPont Registry, What’s Hot Tampa Bay, Panache Vue, Prestige, Pulse
• Interview fashion designers, vendors and experts in the travel and wedding industries 
• Write an ebook on small business marketing & contribute to the best selling book Women Who Mean Business
• Write SEO-friendly web content for TammyLevent.com, IWHIPIT.com, and EliteTravel.net

Contributing Food Writer October 2008 to Present - Santa Barbara Independent newspaper

• Write reviews and feature articles on local restaurants and tasting rooms
  

Freelance WebWriter & Marketing Consultant April 2011 to Present - Clients include FeliciPhotography, MadPlatter Event Production, Spa50, RogoGraphics

• Work closely with clients to write SEO-friendly website homepages and About Us sections 
• Advise on website design and Social Media strategies
• Help clients find opportunities to advertise their businesses through appropriate media
  

Web Content Creator September 2011 to Present - Contact Media

• Craft easy to read web content for lawyers’ and other professionals’ websites

Contract Content Writer July 2011 to Present, as needed - Zozi

•  Write fun and witty daily deal descriptions for adventure experiences across North America
  

Lead Blogger May 2009 to March 2011 - Indelible Marks Inc. websites Studentstuff.com & GlobalShift.org

• Wrote about college-related topics and news for StudentStuff.com
• Wrote about individuals, charities, and non-profits for GlobalShift.org
• Interviewed celebrities and cover events
• Created marketing strategies to increase website traffic for both websites
  

A letter from Dr. David Jensen
Hi Lauren, I was giving two young aspiring veterinarians a tour of my mobile veterinary truck today, along with their moms, and while walking through our office, one of the moms picked up the November issue of the San Luis Obispo County Journal and began reading your article about Tenzin Lhazey. 

She was quite taken by the story. She said that two passages you wrote grabbed her attention and stuck in her mind. 

"Change doesn’t require giant non-profit organizations, it doesn’t require overhead or bureaucrats or politicians. Change happens by starting anyplace and allowing that action to ripple through vast interconnectedness." and ....."our united front allowed each of our small efforts to join together to get some powerful things accomplished. "  

These passages instantly motivated her to action, having been inspired by your story of how one individual's small action might be able to improve the world. 

Her husband is a physician working in Africa on an AIDS project and she was asking about mobile medical units such as mine, and how such a unit could have a big impact in Africa where it is so difficult to access remote villages to deliver AIDS drugs and treatments.  Who knows what might grow from this? You have written a very fine piece of work, and it is having an effect on the world, one small project at a time. I think your rolling snow is growing!