Marc Mercer

Writer, Internet Content Producer
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Marc Mercer is a gifted writer, Internet strategist and content producer who focuses on the non-profit world and social causes--from disability to homelessness. He provides the same services for commercial enterprises.
 
He began his career working with troubled children and families. He knows what life is like on the front line of human services. Although always privately a writer and poet, he began his professional career with the Guidebook on Residential Child Care, considered one of the seminal works in the field.
 
He was the chief writer for the award-winning magazine created by Ethan B. Ellis, a nationally known disability activist, People with Disabilities. He wrote articles, documents, press releases, speeches, manuals and other written products for a host of non-profit organizations. He is particularly good at interview articles.
 
During the past ten years, Marc developed and managed social media of various types for the Internet arm of a large newspaper group. He was there in the early days of Internet forums, blogging and interactive elements of all kinds.
 
Marc has gone from running group homes and crisis management teams to writing various kinds of printed matter to the new age of the web. If you want to get your message out, if you want to join web 2.0, if you want to move in new directions in communicating with your audience, contact him.
 
If you want to add your two cents to the recommendations below, contact Marc.
 
Recommendations For Marc

Interactivity Manager, Advance Internet

“Marc is a wonderful Manager. He ran a great team of Contracters and is wonderful at designing online work enviorments and coming up with new ideas to make things run smoothly. He also knows how to bring in the latest and greates software and adapt it to the online work world. I have known and worked with Marc for 15 years. He has been a wonderful manager/supervisor and friend.”

 

Lorraine Lee, Assistant Interactivity Manager, Advance Internet
reported to Marc at Advance Internet

 

“Marc was always on top of things we needed. He would see that we had the new tools to moderate our forums and at times even made sure our paychecks went out on time. He was always fair in his decision making and ran ran a very tight ship. If you gave him 100% he would always return the favor. He never minded teaching where/when it was needed. I have known him since 2001 when he came to Advance.”

 

Al Steins, Forum/Blog Moderator, Advance Internet
reported to Marc at Advance Internet

Writer, State of New Jersey

“Marc and I worked together as a great writer/photographer team in the New Jersey disability community between 1992 and 2004. We were creative partners in crime and he managed to blend poetry and journalism in a way that truly captured the soul of our subjects. Fresh out of university and full of idealism, I appreciated Marc's mentoring and he is one of the few people I have come across and worked with that I truly admired for both their abilities and humanity. It's good to be in touch again.”

 

Simon Fulford, Executive Director, Art Start Inc.
was a freelance photographer when working with Marc at NJ disability community

 

“I hired Marc as a freelance writer for Certain Inalienable Rights, the Report of the Governor's Task Force on Peope with Disabilities in 1986. In him, I discovered a great writer and poet and a good friend. He has written with me in a variety of assignments since and his craftmanship continues to astonish. Ours has been a collaboration that continues to enrich us both.”

 

Ethan Ellis, President, Next Step
worked with Marc as a freelancer during this period

 

Writer, Interstate Consortium on Residential Child Care

 

"I founded the Interstate Consortium on Residential Child Care in the late 70's.  It was a group of regulators, purchasers and providers of residential child care from 13 states and the District of Columbia. Our task was to create and market a model set of regulatory standards for the field. I reached out to Marc because I knew him to be a talented writer with a lot of direct experience in the field--and because I knew that he cared.. He went far beyond my expectations. He was able to write the regulations in tight, plain English and the accompanying commentary in a way that brought the diverse groups involved together. It is fair to say that his language soared and captured the heart and soul of a group of people who, despite their differences, shared a common sense of mission. Marc managed to define this mission, completely and strongly, in the Residential Child Care Guidebook. It is fair to say that the process would not have worked--as it certainly did--without his ability to put it into words."
 
"Once the Guidebook came out, the process spread across the country. Marc worked with groups of providers and regulators in several states to write new state regulations using the same consensus-based process. His mild manner and strong personal commitment to serving troubled children and families helped in encouraging the diverse groups involved to work together toward a common goal. Marc started working for us freelance, eventually joined the staff and directed the agency for a period after I left. I have worked with him off and on since then--whenever I have a challenging writing job. His new web skills make him even more valuable, particularly to any cause-related non-profit--as long, I would say, as he believes in the cause. I would also add that he has an open mind and a great heart."
 
Connie Mercer, Executive Director, HomeFront
Has worked with Marc for many years

 
Please be advised that Marc is not responsible for the websites that appear if you click on the links above. He is talking to organizations about remaking their web presences.