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Simon Owens is the Director of Editorial & Outreach at design agency JESS3. He currently lives in the Washington, DC area. Over the years, Simon has secured hundreds of placements on top blogs and social news sites for clients. He has conducted digital PR for both major and small brands and has driven millions of page views for clients, getting them mentioned on Technorati Top 100 blogs, major news outlets, and other major social media sites. He began his career as a newspaper journalist and still covers social media and tech for news outlets (for a full employment history, visit here).

Hire Simon

I’m the Director of PR for digital agency JESS3. Rather than explain all the various services the agency offers, below I’ll show you actual projects we’ve worked on. If you’re interested in working with us, click over to my contact page.

PR

We’ve worked closely with bloggers, journalists, and social media users to secure thousands of hits on both top tier and longtail outlets. Click over here to read a case study of how we created a video and secured hits on over 100 blogs — including four of the largest tech and social media blogs — and received over 160,000 views. Click over here to see how we got hundreds of blog hits, social media shares, newspaper articles, and television appearances over a Firefox plugin we created.

Web Design

Click over here to see the entire front page redesign JESS3 did for Samsung’s main website. Click over here to see an infographic we created depicting the increase in social media sharing that came as a direct result of that redesign. Click over here to see the awesome presidential debate hub we created for C-SPAN (one of the first major news outlets to integrate Twitter’s API for live coverage). Click over here to see the front page design we created for Conan’s new TBS show.

Video Animation

Click over here to see an awesome “State of Wikipedia” video JESS3 created. Click over here to see a stop-motion animation video JESS3 made for Gmail Mobile. Click here for some promotional videos JESS3 made for Google Translate. Over here you’ll find a video we made for The Economist.

Infographics and Animation

Click over here to see an animation we made for a Washington Post “The Future of Domains” article. Here’s another Washington Post animation where we imagined the “future of pot.” Click over here to view some infographics we made for Yahoo’s Ask America series. Be sure to also take a look at the Content Grid we created for Eloqua.

App and Platform Development

Over here is a really awesome Firefox plugin we created to cover all mentions of BP on your browser with dirty oil. Here’s an even better plugin we created to block your ex from the internet. Don’t miss the iPhone application design JESS3 did for Mashable.

Platform Partnerships

Click over here to read about a partnership between JESS3 and Foursquare to create an “I Voted” badge and map. Click over here about how JESS3 and NASA made history by organizing the first Foursquare check-in from space. Click over here about a JESS3 partnership with Facebook to create a “Facebook stories” website to commemorate the social network’s 500 million active user milestone.

Work with us

Go ahead and contact me for more details.