Cooper absolutey hit the ground running from Day One at the Journal, with a fresh perspective and innovative new ideas to use web-based tools to help us become more productive and marketable as a publication. [...] It’s because of people like Cooper that I’ll be forever grateful for the experience [of managing at GJIA]. ~Nirjhor Rahman, Business Manager, GJIA

The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs is the official semi-annual publication of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Founded as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2000, it recently celebrated its eleventh year of activity. GJIA is distributed nationwide in over 300 locations.

I had a GJIA wiki created as a solution that would allow the business team to pass their procedures and documents onto future employees in a comprehensive and universally accessible manner. I then held seminars to train all GJIA staff on how to use the wiki, including best practices for information retention and tagging.

I also created a subscriber database based on the Google Docs architecture. I chose this software because it was incredibly simple to input into, in the cloud, well-documented, and free. I implemented this solution by building a database structure and then translating the old, extremely long spreadsheet that GJIA had used to store its subscribers into the new system, cleansing the data with a combination of text transformations and manual, line-by-line, editing.