“Aram is knowledgeable, kind, and always ready to teach. I was fortunate to spend much of my undergraduate journalism career in close proximity to him, which itself alone was a blessing. Even just conversation with him is fruitful-- any exchange seemed to spur new, exciting ideas. In short, I learned much from Aram, who is always seeking to learn more himself, and I am forever thankful for his consistent willingness to help solve problems, doing so successfully, and often at a drop of a hat.”
About
Aram Zucker-Scharff is the Senior Staff Engineer for Privacy and Security Compliance at…
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Sat. Nov. 16: the 15th annual Klein News Innovation Camp (once BCNI), which is just about the most accessible annual journalism, media-making and…
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Did you know that Google might have suppressed potentially incriminating documents during its recent antitrust trial? For today's WTFriday, we're…
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Google and other adtech companies keep profiting from climate change lies, and we and over 40,000 others are sick of it. Global Witness, Greenpeace,…
Google and other adtech companies keep profiting from climate change lies, and we and over 40,000 others are sick of it. Global Witness, Greenpeace,…
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Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Pi (held the positions of Treasurer and Vice President), Hillel: The Jewish Student Association, VoxPop (student magazine), Volition (student literary magazine), Broadside (student newspaper), Resident Technicians, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Honors Program, Connect2Mason (student news website), Mason Votes (election education initiative).
Information Security concentration in Network Administration and Security.
Publications
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On the Characteristics of an Effective Consent Signal
See publicationA written copy of my comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency. I spoke to the CPPA on behalf of The Washington Post about privacy law and rights to opt out.
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Feedback Loop: Many choices, or none, make a game.
Nightmare Mode
See publicationIs just one choice all it takes to turn a novel into a video game? Before you say yes, consider when a game is created out of many choices and when we are left with none.
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Search Engine Optimization 201
See publicationA presentation I gave to instruct in beginner-intermediate level Search Engine Optimization.
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How Facebook's Timeline will change everything.
HackText
See publicationFacebook’s new feature will change the way we think about social media content because it introduces permanence to our digital lives.
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A WordPress Theme for Taking Notes on Your Kindle
Chronicle of Higher Education online
See publicationI ask for three things from my notes: that I can take them dependably, read them easily, and sort them effectively. I’ve tried to fulfill those goals with a P2 child theme built for the Kindle.
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Innovative Models: Student Media at George Mason University
CoPress
See publicationA brief description of how the Office of Student Media was innovating journalism during the period of publication.
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How the Israeli Consulate Brought the State to the People
HackText
See publicationThe Israeli Consulate in New York held a citizens press conference on Twitter. I talk to them about how they did it.
Patents
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HTML5 Preroll for YouTube WordPress embeds
See projectWrote a WordPress plugin and that allows the use of XML VAST Video Ad Tags with embedded YouTube videos using javascript, HTML5 video and the videojs library.
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CFO.com redesign and re-launch
See projectLed the team and project managed a website redesign for CFO.com, leading digital property of CFO Publishing, LLC.
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Responsive Website Relaunch for SES-GS
Project managed and worked to build out a responsive version of SES-GS's website for WordPress.
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Salon.com Responsive Design Restructure
See projectBuilt out SASS, JS, and PHP to restructure www.salon.com into a fully responsive design.
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Proceedings of THATCamp
Worked with team to develop improvements to the project's WordPress theme, BuddyPress profiles and to extend BuddyPress's activities functionality towards a more useful favorites system.
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Response Stack
See projectA WordPress plugin to build stories out of comments and help both the original story and the discussion around it live on.
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Launched Video Channel
I configured and optimized a YouTube channel for CFO Publishing. I then worked with our team of journalists to create video content to fill the channel. My work included advising, filming and editing video.
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Custom Link Shortener
Modified, customized and launched a custom cloud-based URL shortening tool using the YOURLS open source project.
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The JOBS Act Explainer
Built custom CSS, JavaScript and PHP to help create an interactive journalistic report on The JOBS Act, providing a comprehensive listing of topics, questions, answers and sources on the topic.
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Editorial reboot into WordPress
See projectWorked with a team to move CFO's editorial team into a WordPress platform.
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Tablet Edition
An iPad edition of CFO Magazine. I specifically worked on HTML/Javascript elements within the project.
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Computer Parts Warehouse Website Relaunch
Worked as external resource to help a team launch Computer Parts Warehouse's new WordPress-based website on the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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PressForward
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PressForward is a WordPress plugin built to process feeds as a feed reader, allow groups to share and discuss the items that come in and then post about them as an integrated editorial process.
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WordPress Archival Shortcode
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See projectI'm working on perfecting a WordPress plugin that allows the user to archive Twitter through WordPress's shortcode interface.
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Nightmare Mode
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A website for critical discussion of gaming. I designed and continue to improve their WordPress theme.
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The Hunt 2
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Designed, wrote and planned an alternate reality game for students at George Mason University through the Office of Student Media. The game was designed to be played around the George Mason University campus and teach students about the history and community of the campus and the Student Media brand.
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Mason Votes Responsive Theme - BoxedIn
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See projectCreated a new responsive WordPress theme for Mason Votes website.
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Broadside-Hybrid Responsive WordPress Theme
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See projectDeveloped a responsive WordPress theme for the Student Newspaper.
Honors & Awards
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Notable Technologies in Audience Tracking
FOLIO Magazine
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Folio 100: 15 Under 30 in the magazine media industry
Folio Magazine
"The brightest individuals under the age of 30 who are executing on some of our industry’s most innovative ideas." At: http://www.foliomag.com/2013/aram-zucker-scharff
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Top Honors Award for Most Effective Technology Tool - Mason Votes
George Mason University
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