User:Jerrybattiste

Jerry Battiste (born February 7, 1969) is a writer and photographer living in northeastern Indiana. He is the author of two books: "The ABC's of Social Media Management" a non-fiction book of helpful tips for social media management and a collection of short stories called "8 Lucky."

He has worked as a journalist at several Indiana newspapers including the Greensburg Daily News (Greensburg, Indiana), The Republic (Columbus,Indiana), Hendricks County Flyer (Avon, Indiana). He most recently worked as Online Community Manager at The Bluffton News-Banner (Bluffton, Indiana)  where he created an entire social media network which more than doubled the newspaper's reach online. He built and managed multiple daily blogs, a Twitter account, two Facebook pages and a YouTube account. He also worked with Publisher Mark Miller to redesign the existing News-Banner web site.

Battiste also worked on the short lived publication The Muncie Option, published by The Herald Bulletin (Anderson, Indiana) in 1996-1997. This was a free weekly publication created by The Herald Bulletin and delivered to homes in the Muncie, Indiana area. It was meant as a competitor of The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana.)

His is a recipient of a Hoosier State Press Association Award for his 'Short Feature' work [www.rishawnbiddle.org/RRB/hspa_winners_2007.pdf].

His work has also appeared in Associated Press articles throughout the United States

Battiste currently maintains an active Twitter account (@JerryBattiste) where he posts about his work as a journalist and his current fiction work.

You can also find him on Facebook where he shares links to his ongoing serialized detective stories, "Matt Swift", and his short stories, some of which he publishes free online at his blog, www.jerrybattiste.blogspot.com. Jerrybattiste (talk) 20:00, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Battiste also maintains a YouTube account where he posts videos from his work as a journalist.

Battiste publishes some of his fiction work, short stories and his serialized detective story, "Matt Swift", at www.textnovel.com