Mary C. Weaver

Experience

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  Whittle Communications

  Feb 1983 - Nov 1988

  Editor; copy chief

  As an editor in the Health Group, I researched story ideas; wrote, assigned, and edited articles; and supervised junior staff. As copy chief, I trained and managed four to nine copy editors and upheld the company's standards of grammar and style in as many as 17 publications.

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  Mary C. Weaver

  Jan 1988 - now

  Communications strategist, writer, editor

  I write, edit, and offer consulting to help clients solve their communications problems and get their message across. Special interests include health, fitness, and resistance training; nonprofit marketing; and online fundraising.

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  National Storytelling Association

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1993

  Founding editor, Storytelling Magazine

  I launched the magazine, served as its editor, and launched and managed the association's National Storytelling Press, which published five books over a three-year period.

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  University of Tennessee

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1990

  Adjunct instructor

  Taught editing and magazine-article writing

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  HGTV

  Aug 1995 - Jan 1998

  Founding editor, HGTV Ideas magazine

  I launched HGTV Ideas magazine for Home & Garden Television and served as its editor.

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  The Diocese of Knoxville

  Jun 2001 - Mar 2012

  Media director

  I edited and managed The East Tennessee Catholic newspaper, launched and managed the diocesan website, and created and led the diocese's new media program.During my years at the diocese, I led two redesigns of the newspaper and two complete overhauls of the diocesan website. (The current website is *not* the one we produced.) We went from having no online presence when I was hired to earning a spot among the best of diocesan sites. The site included a 12-year complete searchable archive of published newspaper articles, custom calendar and event functions, video, podcasts, priest-only and employee-only sections, detailed pages for every parish and school, and "virtual" editions of the newspaper. Show less

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  Prime Fitness LLC

  Jan 2004 - Apr 2014

  Owner

  As an NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, I helped men and women over 40 achieve their health, fitness, and body-composition goals.

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  The Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province

  Sept 2013 - Jul 2020

  Director of communications

  I was communications director for the Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province—raising awareness of the congregation’s mission, sharing its stories, publishing news. I was formerly involved in fundraising, and in calendar year 2017 I brought in $105,000 via online channels, an increase of 50 percent over 2016.I edited the province’s print and online communications; edited and produced projects such as our annual Lenten devotions book; maintained our website, http://redemptorists.net; ran social media and e-mail campaigns; and in other ways helped promote the Redemptorist brand. Show less

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  The Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

  Sept 2018 - Apr 2020

  Conductor and artistic director

  I directed the cathedral's schola cantorum, which performed Gregorian chant, English chant, and sacred polyphony for the Roman Catholic liturgy. The schola sang the 7:30 a.m. Mass on the first and third Sunday of each month. We stopped singing when churches were closed because of the coronavirus pandemic and never began again.

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  Holy Ghost Catholic Church

  Aug 2020 - now

  Director of sacred music

  Director of sacred music for a mid-size Catholic parish. I program music for both the Vetus Ordo and Novus Ordo liturgies and direct and train two choirs, emphasizing chant, sacred polyphony, and other musical forms that make up the Church's "treasury of inestimable value."