Lynne Brakeman, Writer, Editor, Web Editor

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Lynne Brakeman is a writer, editor, and web design content specialist.

Lynne has covered a wide variety of subjects: from acoustic music to veterinary medicine, information technology in healthcare and engineering, automatic identification technology, the landscaping and golf turf industries and the hospitality/lodging industry.

Lynne is currently Web Marketing Manager for the Manufacturing Acvocacy & Growth Network (MAGNET), a 20-year-old non-profit organization that promotes the vitality of the manufacturing industry in Northern Ohio. In her first six months with the organization she helped design and launch a new site for the organization's Product Design & Development division, www.magnetpdd.org. She also authors a daily news round up of regional manufacturing news briefs.

Background

Lynne began writing for business-to-business in 1993. Her news reporting and feature articles have earned her five regional and seven national awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors.

From 2006 to 2007, Lynne was Senior Web Editor for Questex Media Group's Hotel & Motel Management Group. From 2001 to 2006 she was Web Editor for Questex's Landscape Group and Pest Control Group publications. The Web sites she helped create and manage for Questex include:

• Landscape Management
• Landscape Design/Build
• Golfdom
• Turfgrass Trends
• Pest Control
• Athletic Turf
• Questex Landscape Group
• Hotel & Motel Management
• Hotel Design

For the Landscape Group, from 2001 until June 2006, Lynne wrote and edited LM Week in Review, an e-mail newsletter for landscapers and lawn care professionals. In 2003, LM WiR won a national award from the American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE). She also launched the online-only Athletic Turf News monthly e-mail newsletter which received a national ASBPE award in 2005. In 2006, she received a national ASBPE award for Original Web Commentary for an LM Week in Review opinion column written in 2005, "Dialogue and Democracy."

As a personal project, in 2003, Lynne launched Northeast Ohio Buddhist News, a monthly e-newsletter for the community of individuals practicing Buddhism in Northeast Ohio.

Lynne has also edited two reference books for Detroit-based Gale Research (now The Gale Group unit of The Thomson Corp.):

• "A Chronology of Women Worldwide" (1996); and
• "The Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations; Vol. 5: The United Nations" (1995).

Between 1993 and 1997, Lynne published frequently in local and regional publications including The Sun Newspapers, Northern Ohio Live, Cleveland Magazine and Scene Entertainment Weekly.

Lynne lives in Lakewood, Ohio, a village-type close-in suburb of Cleveland. Her hobbies are: all kinds of music (but especially the music of Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and YoYo Ma), great movies, restoring a century home, and catering to the whims of her two cats, Molly (a geriatric Siamese) and Belle (a sturdy Tabbycat).