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About Sonnet Media
The “Literary Walk,” Central Park, NYC
A Sonnet, as written by Shakespeare, has 14 lines and very stringent rules a poet must follow to call her poem a sonnet. The best poets though, understand when to stretch the given constraints, how to push beyond them to create something new. That’s what we strive for here at Sonnet Media. We began this firm six years ago with a hope to help people overcome technical barriers to carrying their message to a broader world than they might otherwise.
With every passing year we renew our commitment to that idea and we continue to attempt to push the boundaries, to explore new technologies and hone the ways we set out to accomplish our goals. Our approach is to gain a fundamental understanding of what our clients are trying to accomplish and build a Website with that single goal in mind. We work with authors and publishers, filmmakers and cause-related organizations as well as select companies.
About Bud Parr
Earl “Bud” Parr III is a Web Developer, Writer and On-line Publisher with a particular expertise in Weblogs and Content Consulting. He is actively involved in the advancement of “social software” both in terms of promoting writing on the Web and empowering individuals and organizations to create community with technology.
Before devoting his time to helping organizations with their Web communication strategies, he developed asset allocation products for Prudential International Investment’s non-U.S. clientele. As part of his wide-ranging duties at Prudential, he wrote for a publication distributed world-wide to financial professionals and sophisticated investors, he developed investment models and reporting methodology, consulted on emerging markets for a team of highly regarded investment managers and managed a complex systems project that included building a web-based interface for allocating funds in several currencies for hundreds of client accounts.
He began his career at Lehman Brothers, the investment bank, more than 20 years ago and in the span of his Wall Street career, which also included Merrill Lynch Asset Management, he advised clients in the U.S, Latin America and Europe on products and markets.
He holds an M.A. in International Economics from New York University and a B.S. in Economics and International Business from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is a member of the Information Architecture Institute.
Since 1998 Bud has been actively writing for a variety of organizations with both on-line and off-line content. He edits the literary Weblog, Chekhov’s Mistress, which some people like, and he is currently the editor for the blogs at Words Without Borders, The Online Magazine of International Literature. He is on the advisory board for the Americas Series at Texas Tech University Press, which publishes contemporary fiction and nonfiction in translation.