Skill and resource sets: report 'em here

Graphic Design (I have a BFA and everything!)

Illustration/Drawing/Whatnot

Marketing (self-taught, but I research like mad on it and it's supplemented by my BFA curriculum which had a heavy emphasis on practical stuff)

Printing/Layout for print (worked in two print shops)

Animation/film editing (Got half an MFA in 3D animation, but it just wasn't where my heart was.)

Grammar Nazi: Hyu vill punctyuvate or helse!

Voice actor: I've done a lot of theater, and I currently work in a call center, so I act with my voice every day

Editor: I worked in my college's writing center for as long as they would let me, and loved it.

I write intense description and visceral reactions very well.

Black belt Karate

Shiatsu Therapist

Gourmet Cooking

Basic knitting and very basic crochet

Painting and sculpting paper

I'm good with kids and animals

I'm good at chess and lousy at go

there's more but I can't think of them

Skills that might be useful to you:

Photoshop
Graphic design
Editing (content & line)
Journalism

Knowledge that might be useful for your research:

Martial arts (black belt in karate, year's classes in fencing)
Music (play keyboards & guitar, sing)
Homeopathy (professional practitioner, also know some about other alternative health modalities)
Hang-gliding (still a rank newbie but I have done it)
Pre-firearms war strategy, tactics & logistics
Home birth (observation as partner/support person), birth by C-section (personal experience)
Parenting (personal experience and research)
Autism (two kids on the spectrum)
Geothermal heating (use it)
Reincarnation (personal experience and research)
Psychology (much research, several courses of therapy and other emotional healing modes)
Ancient Greek culture, art, architecture & history (research including going there)
Child sexual abuse and incest (personal experience and research)

Skill that is totally useless to any of you: I am really good at jigsaw puzzles.

Er...

Not sure I have any that would be of use here - I am the woman who only just discovered how to enlarge text on screen thanks to a comment here about someone's grandma

That is one of the reasons why I have not volunteered to help out with the AntholoZine.

Copy editing / proofreading
Typesetting
Layout, although primarily self-taught
Unemployed husband with high-speed internet connection*
Knitting, sewing, bookbinding
(I have done cosplay-style costumes)
Baking
HTML, of course
Knowledge that might be useful to others - most pre-industrial skills (I'm not a member of the SCA but I play one at the LARPS), encyclopedic geek knowledge, some fashion history and a good idea of where to go for the rest, knowledge of poetic forms, power tools, the construction industry, social services...

* This counts as a skill, really.

I guess I'm like Miladysa -- I don't possess many skills of use, and the few I do have someone else can likely do much better. But anyway, here's what I can offer:

Graphic design. Photo manipulation. (Photoshop)

Traditional and digital art -- traditional media skills are limited to ink and graphite (some pastel too, with patience and luck).

Digital video editing. I've done fan music videos using Windows Movie Maker. I've gotten used to the faulty program and have managed some reasonable effects with it.

This thread is a great idea!

Skills

• Content/developmental editing
• Scriptwriting
• Brainstorming!
• Marketing (self-taught, but I'm always reading about it and observing)
• Writing blurbs and loglines
• Graphic design (self-taught)
• Comics inking, coloring, and lettering (digital)
• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• WordPress
• Project planning (I'm a good big-picture person.)
• Web development/programming (PHP, ASP, JavaScript, though I'm only up for tinkering, really)
• Databases (MySQL, Access, SQL Server)

Resources/research help/life experience

• Geology and other physical sciences
• Playing the trombone and trumpet
• Role-playing games and other geekery
• "Green" technology and low-tech energy efficient stuff
• Dogs, ferrets, and cats

Count me in with Miladysa and Illise ... not sure how much expertise I bring to any table when the other chairs are filled with people much more experienced than I.

But FWIW, my strengths are:

- Brainstorming

- Editing (both copy/line editing and bigger picture dramaturgy)

- Web design (it's what I do for the big bucks; I work with plain HTML, Dreamweaver & Photoshop)

- vBulletin message board software (the EpiGuide won vB.com's Board of the Month)

- Research (that's what I used to do for the not-so-big bucks, as a fundraising researcher at Carnegie Hall ). I'm quite good at tracking down elusive data. Sheer stubborn doggedness helps.

- Singing (musical theater, opera, pop standards)

Skills: editing (got a degree in writing), professional videographer and scriptwriter (also have a degree in TV production), public speaking (lots of experience in that).

Knowledgeable about: worldwide travel (Asia, Europe, U.S - have yet to make it to Australia though), business planning, gay rights (though I'm straight), being poor

Hopeless about: graphic design, web design, drawing

Proofreading
Editing
Cooking
Gardening

Medieval swordfighting
Mothering (Does motherhood count as a skill?)

MA in medieval history
BA (Honors) in medieval history

Yeah, I'm in the "not sure what skills people can use" group too.

Hopefully, I'll have a B.A. in Psychology and Creative writing by 2010/2011. I spent 3 years in sciences... if that means anything. I have a love/hate relationship with organic chemistry. I'm hoping to take a class in voice acting, theatre, and screenwriting and prose poetry. I want to eventually get an MFA, but I'm in that "OMG, what am I going to do with my life? I don't want to work. I want to stay in school forever" stage.

Medieval swordfighting

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Please let me know what you think of Sarta's skillz in Swords and Sigils; I have no blade-fighting skill and have made it all up.

Mothering (Does motherhood count as a skill?)

Absolutely.

Skills

• HTML / CSS legerdemain (with a dash of PHP for spice)
• Poetry critique and revision (4 years workshop experience)
• Research (I work in an academic library. If I don't know, I can find out.)
• Archaeology (did an internship in college)
• Shibari-style rope bondage (...what? she liked it)
• Dialogue critique (Everyone comments on how "natural" my dialogue sounds)
• Inserting parentheses into every bullet point (Except this -- doh!)

Useful Life Experiences

• First-hand observation of psychological issues:
• Bipolar (ex-girlfriend)
• Disassociative or Split Personality (other ex-girlfriend)
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder / hoarding (OTHER ex-girlfriend...do I know how to pick 'em or what?)
• Hiking
• Long distance relationships
• Many years of roleplaying / gaming experience
• Geocaching

> Mothering (Does motherhood count as a skill?)

Yes, absolutely, and I'll give you a direct example why from my own experience.

When I wrote and published my dead-tree novels, in which my characters have kids, I was in my 20s and not yet a mom myself. When I came back 20 years later to revise them to go on the Internet, my kids were aged 14 and 11. I looked at my own writing about parenting and thought, 'Wow, I really didn't have a clue, and it shows, and anyone who read this who's a parent would see.' And I heavily revised the parts where Chevenga, my main character, is growing up, and then when he has kids of his own, to reflect the knowledge I had gained.

Parenting is such a complex and subtle activity and learning experience that you really can't replicate it in writing, if you're going into it in any depth, unless you've experienced it (or if you consult with someone who has!). I imagine you have an idea of the nuts and bolts aspect if you have much younger siblings (I didn't) or if you were involved closely in the raising of, say, a relative's child (I wasn't). But the feeling of looking at or being with your own children is like nothing else in the world.

I may as well contribute...

Regularly used skills:
PHP/MySQl programming
HTML/CSS
Limited graphic design--Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver (generally, I hire people for this)
Windows/Unix server administration
General technical support skills
Writing

Irregular but still used:
Javascript
Java
Market Research/Data Analysis--statistics, survey writing/design (MA in Sociology, worked at a market research firm)

Can't see how they're relevant, but I'll mention them anyway:
Christian Theology
Ancient History (w/limited (koine) Greek and Hebrew language skills)
Ancient Philosophy
Martial Arts (Tae Kwon Do)
Long distance running
Jazz history w/ limited skill at playing...
Bass guitar, trumpet

I feel strangely unskilled.

I suppose my skills are:
-Editing & proof-reading
-Brainstorming
-Fluent Italian, nearly fluent Spanish, strong French
-Organization (ask Jan)
-BA in Linguistics (knowledge of phonetics & syntax)
-MA in Publishing (I'm strong on the law knowledge esp.)

Life experiences?
-Living in a lot of different EU countries (moving around at a young age)
-Divorce (parents, not mine)
-Teaching English
-Working as a fundraiser
-Working as a translator
-Having chicken pox as an adult (lol!)

Perhaps my most useful thing I can offer is if people need reference pics of London I could probably take them!

Oh, I should do this too...

My limited Weblit-esque Skills:
-many years of play-by-email roleplaying/collaborative writing & world-building
-some formal education in communication (risk/science comm, comp-mediated comm), creative & business writing, Spanish language, & linguistics

Farming-related Skills/Experiences:
-raised & working on diverse 200+ year old family farm
-semi-professional ag-advocate
-animal husbandry galore, esp. goats, cows, cats & dogs
-tractors & big honkin' equipment
-fields, crops, harvesting, & storage
-improvised mechanical & structural repairs
-meat science (slaughter, butchering, processing, cooking)
-reacting to something-may-get-hurt-or-die emergencies (just last night we had a cow jump thru a window... only made it halfway on her own...)
-working with/selling to various immigrant/ethnic groups
-historical knowledge of ag, too

Other Skills/Experiences:
-martial arts, specifically Okinawan karate styles
-little bit of vocal music, flute, & violin
-divorce from perspective of an adult child
-a little theatre backstage experience
-mystery disease hospital time as a child
-dance (tap, ballet, modern, square dancing/reels/contra)
-Co-ed fraternity (AKA "mild hazing works")
-a little formal education in Asian religions
-the Prohibitionist's POV (AKA college without alcohol)
-personal research in ancient history, the early Silk Road, ancient militaries, & more
-casual knowledge of the Six Nations/Iroquois Confederacy
-American Civil War re-enacting