User:K. Daniel Glover

I answer to the name Danny Glover, but I use the byline K. Daniel Glover to alleviate the disambiguation of sharing a name with actor Danny Glover. I am an editor, writer and social media strategist in Washington, D.C.. I spent most of my career inside the Beltway working as a journalist at Congressional Quarterly and National Journal Group. At the turn of the 21st century, I developed an interest in blogs that transformed into a passion for all things social media.

I am a native of Paden City, West Virginia, a small town in the Ohio Valley, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master's degree in journalism and public affairs from The American University. I began my journalism career as an obituary writer at The Tampa Tribune while taking a year off school. I worked in the newsroom during the first party-organized Super Tuesday in 1988, and the news rush of that day hooked me on political journalism.

I returned to WVU to finish my education and landed my first reporting job at the Dominion Post in Morgantown, West Virginia during my last two years of college. The newspaper hired me as its political reporter after I graduated. I covered the city councils in Morgantown and Westover, West Virginia, as well as the 1990 congressional race between Rep. Harley O. Staggers Jr. and Oliver Luck, who is now the athletic director at WVU.

I moved to the Washington area in 1991 to take an entry-level reporting job at CQ for the weekly newsletter Congressional Insight. I couldn't have predicted it then, but the newsletter's unique writing style -- underlined key phrases, insider language, abbreviations and dropped words when necessary to cram more information into a line, paragraph or page -- prepared me well for the emergence of Twitter as a journalism tool. I like to recall the days of Congressional Insight when trying to convince critics of today's online publishing tools that "new" media isn't really all that new.

During my six-plus years at CQ, I also reported news from the U.S. House for the daily Congressional Monitor, wrote profiles of members of Congress and congressional districts for Politics In America, and covered select congressional races for CQ Weekly Report. I moved into the editing ranks -- and into digital journalism -- in 1995 as news editor of CQ's BillWatch legislative database. That is where I was introduced to the World Wide Web. My fascination with the Internet prompted my 1997 move to IntellectualCapital.com, a startup weekly we called "the op-ed page on the Web."

IntellectualCapital closed in 2000 as the dot-com bubble burst, but its demise led me to National Journal, where I served as the managing editor and then editor of Technology Daily and ultimately developed a passion for journalism fueled by blogs, social networks and other technology platforms. In 2005, I launched Beltway Blogroll, a column and companion blog about the emerging power of blogs in politics, policy and media. The blog Tech Daily Dose went online in 2006. And in 2007, I developed a private blog venture called AirCongress to aggregate the best video and audio of, by and about Congress. Under my leadership, Tech Daily also created weekly podcasts, added online video to our coverage and experimented with Facebook and Twitter as tools to distribute news.

After leaving Tech Daily in January 2008, I oversaw the launch of a video-sharing website for conservatives and then transitioned into social media strategy. From January 2010 until December 2011, I was the editor of the Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report, a daily newsletter that aggregated the most newsworthy, informative and entertaining tweets inside the Beltway. I also served as lead editor of "The Essential Guide to Twitter," which includes case studies of how brands and politicians use Twitter.

Like many journalists, I have been a Wikipedia reader for years, but I have not contributed much to the site as an editor. I opened this account to add my editorial voice in a more formal way and to learn about the community. I plan to watch and edit articles on topics I've mentioned in this bio -- West Virginia, journalism and social media, for instance -- and on my other interests, including homeschooling and adoption.