Need to communicate your message in print, e-mail, or on the web? With nearly three decades of journalism experience, Cask Strength Media can help you craft a newsletter, news release, or brochure that makes you stand out from the cluttered media universe. Mark can work with your web site designers to create compelling and "sticky" content that keeps your users coming back. Mark is also available for freelance story assignments.

If you're not using Facebook, Twitter, or podcasts to reach your users, you're missing out on an opportunity!  Cask Strength Media has been producing the successful podcast. "WhiskyCast" for the last four years, and reaches a global audience each week. In addition, the WhiskyCast Twitter and Facebook presence has helped build an engaged and active audience. We can help you do the same!

Since social networks don't work in the same way traditional media do, it's easy to step on land mines when trying to reach your audience on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. We've learned how to navigate around the land mines and reach your target audience!

In addition to our podcasting and social media consulting, we can work with your organization in many different ways. If you need to teach newspaper or radio reporters how to work with video to enhance your web site, Mark Gillespie has been an award-winning broadcast journalist for almost 30 years, with experience in shooting and editing video, creating graphics, and making it all work on the web. If your executives need coaching on how to give more effective interviews, he's interviewed some of the most powerful executives in the world, from the President of the United States to corporate leaders and local politicians. Mark knows how reporters think...and how they're likely to approach your interview. Finally, when the stuff hits the fan...as it almost certainly will...Mark can use his experience as a reporter covering crises to help you prepare and manage your approach to crisis communications.

Need help coaching your news talent? Mark's experience as an writer and editor can help your staff enhance their creative abilities, and he's worked with many young reporters over the years to improve their on-air presence. Need a fresh voice for your station's ID's and promos? We can do that, along with all other kinds of voiceover work.

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Mark can use his training in photojournalism to help you with documenting special events, photos for news releases, and many other visual communications needs. He's also fluent in Photoshop, and can restore or retouch the aging photos in your archives.