Andrew Nelson is a writer and professor living in New Orleans. He worked as a senior producer of Britannica.com, a creative director for Cyberflix, a visiting professor at

Loyola University New Orleans Loyola University New Orleans is a Private university, private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the nam ...

, and a Public Relations and Social Media Account professional at Peter A. Mayer Advertising in New Orleans. Two computer games he developed for CyberFlix – '' Titanic: Adventure Out of Time'' (1996) and '' Dust: A Tale of the Wired West'' (1995) – were bestselling PC game and Macintosh Games of the Year. In 2007 he was awarded a

Lowell Thomas Award Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military ...

for his work with the Society.Biography
School of Mass Communication, Loyola University New Orleans He is a writer-at-large for

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San Francisco Magazine ''San Francisco'' is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published monthly by Modern Luxury publications. History There have been two separate ''San Francis ...

'' (which featured Nelson’s monthly history column). Nelson is a

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Alumni.

Projects

Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the ti ...

websites were developed by Andrew Nelson and Tom Michael as a spotlight for

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, to promote the encyclopedia and to serve customers in schools by observing

Black History Month Black History Month is an annually observed commemorative month originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the Af ...

. He developed the format for National Geographic Traveler’s award-winning "Insiders" series that uses social media to explore a travel destination. He ran a Twitter guided travel project for the

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/ref> The resultant story "Tweet Me in Miami" for ''National Geographic Traveler'' won the Folio Award for magazine writing in 2010. His Twitter feed won a 2009

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award and endorsements from the

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Awards

Websites

* 2000: Site of the Day, All About Oscar, Yahoo * 1999: Hot Site, Harlem, USA Today * 1999: Cool Site, Site of the Day, The Martini, Netscape * 1998: Blue Web'n educational award, Lost Secrets, Pacific Bell * 1998: Site of the Day, Clicking Anastasia, Yahoo

Games

* 1998: Best Animation CD-ROM/Games, Titanic, Animation Magazine * 1997: Game of the Year, Titanic, MacHome Journal * 1996: Game of the Year, Dust, Macworld * 1994: Game of the Year, Jump Raven, Apple-Japan

Journalism

* 2011: Folio Award, Silver. For magazine article "Tweet Me in Miami," National Geographic Traveler * 2007: Lowell Thomas Prize for Travel Writing; Client: National Geographic Traveler * 2004: Lowell Thomas Prize for Travel Writing; Client: National Geographic Traveler * 1997: Andrew Nelson: "20 to Watch in Multimedia", Daily Variety * 1987: Young Journalists winner, Rolling Stone

Public relations

* 2011: Adrian Award (Platinum) for Public Relations (Client: The National World War II Museum), HSMAI * 2011: Adrian Award (Gold) for Public Relations (Client: The National World War II Museum), HSMAI * 2011: Adrian Award (Bronze) for Social Media (Client: The National World War II Museum), HSMAI * 2010: Silver Quill:, Merit Award for Twitter Campaign (Client: The National World War II Museum), International Association of Business Communicators * 2010: Public Relations Campaign for The Solomon Victory Theater Opening (Client: The National World War II Museum), Press Club of New Orleans * 2009: Silver Award for Twitter campaign (Client: The National World War II Museum), Public Relations Society of America

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Recent works
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