Since 2007 Neenz has worked with the amazing trio of Nononina, Inc. Beginning as a contributor for their citizen journalism site, Truemors until it successfully sold a little over a year later, Neenz continues to serve as the Chief Evangelist for their leading news aggregation site, Alltop. Launched in February 2008, Neenz has curated more than 700 topics for the “online magazine rack” ranging from Adoption to Zoology, making it easier for readers to find niche news.
Nononina, Inc. was co-founded by Kathryn Henkens, Will Mayall, and Guy Kawasaki. Over the years, Neenz has worked directly with the team learning about entrepreneurship, online marketing, community building, and most importantly grinding it out.
Neenz has participated as a panelist at different social media conferences to talk about Alltop’s use of social media networks and tools. As of this writing, Quantcast has ranked Alltop at a respectable top 7K sites in the U.S. and Alexa in the top 2K. The team is grateful to meet them halfway as one of the top 5K sites in the U.S.
When she’s not spreading the good news about Alltop, she contributes to Holy Kaw! a compilation of of news of all the topics that interest the Alltop team.
In February 2009, Neenz launched her own media marketing company Pono Media which focuses on building communities, forming partnerships. Pono Media is the parent company of online magazine, Hawaii Traditions which shares and highlights the local culture in Hawaii. Launched a little over a year ago and managed in the spare time of the team, Hawaii Traditions has a consistent readership of 10K pageviews per month. It’s popularity inspired the launch of a store of merchandise featuring the original designs of indie artist, Jan Avellana.
Recognizing the industry shift to mobile technology, Pono Media has partnered with Hawaii based mobile applications and web developer, Dotestudios. Together, they can offer Hawaii businesses and organizations an opportunity to take their product, services, and cause to the next platform through mobile applications.
Not a political pundit, but more of a committed community member, Neenz considers the Hawaii 2010 election season the most important of her lifetime. Following the lead of America with the historic election of President Barack Obama, Neenz wants the change to continue in Hawaii. She believes this change will happen through the leadership of gubernatorial candidate, Neil Abercrombie.
Neenz has made a commitment to the Abercrombie for Governor campaign by joining the team as the Social Media Director.
