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Staff Biographies

Writ­ing Staff

Samuel J. Scott is the founder, edi­tor, lead writer, and head of mar­ket­ing and adver­tis­ing for the Con­sid­er­a­tions blog.

Scott is Founder and Pres­i­dent of SJS Con­sult­ing World­wide as well as a for­mer Boston jour­nal­ist and news­pa­per edi­tor who is cur­rently liv­ing in Israel. Scott is fin­ish­ing his Inter­na­tional M.B.A., work­ing as a pri­vate con­sul­tant in online mar­ket­ing, and serv­ing as a co-blogger on Mid­dle East­ern and Euro­pean eco­nom­ics at the Return of the Great Depres­sion web­site in sup­port of this book. He is also a co-owner and writer for the Law School Ref­er­ence web­site. Scott’s LinkedIn page is here.

In the past, Scott was Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ager for the Israeli high-tech com­pany Speech Mod­ules, Web­site Mar­ket­ing Man­ager for ForexPros.com, and Mar­ket­ing and SEO Writer for Coolvi­sion. He has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in SEO jobs, SEO Elite, SEO train­ing, SEO soft­ware, Google SEO, SEO Spy­glass, SEO CMS, SEO test, SEO stu­dio, and SEO Analyzer.

In Boston, Scott was Editor-in-Chief and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Spare Change News, an alter­na­tive news­pa­per and non-profit orga­ni­za­tion. Prior to work­ing at SCN, he wrote for Mass­a­chu­setts news­pa­pers includ­ing The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, The Boston Courant, and The Bea­con Hill Times, as well as TNT mag­a­zine in Lon­don. Prior to work­ing in jour­nal­ism, Scott was a Staff Assis­tant at the Bea­con Hill Insti­tute, an eco­nomic think-tank at Suf­folk University.

Scott has a B.S. in jour­nal­ism from Boston Uni­ver­sity. He is study­ing in the Inter­na­tional M.B.A. pro­gram at Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­sity after pur­su­ing prior stud­ies in the Exec­u­tive M.B.A. pro­gram at Suf­folk Uni­ver­sity in Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts. Scott has lived, trav­eled, or stud­ied in Britain, Canada, Egypt, India, and Israel, as well as in var­i­ous parts of the United States. He was born in St. Louis, Mis­souri, and raised in Belleville, Illi­nois, before mov­ing to Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts. He cur­rently lives in Israel.

Scott can be con­tacted at sjsc­world­wide (at) gmail.com (with­out the spaces). His opin­ions are his own and not nec­es­sar­ily reflec­tive of any employer, client, or uni­ver­sity. Scott’s mother tongue is Eng­lish, and he is pro­fi­cient in Hebrew and French as well. The name of the blog — “Con­sid­er­a­tions” — is that of his reg­u­lar col­umn while he was Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News in Boston.

Devan Daniel Kalathil Palankandi grad­u­ated with a degree in media and jour­nal­ism from the Uni­ver­sity of Flo­rence in Italy. He has taken part in social events includ­ing the Anti-Racist Tour­na­ment and Mon­di­al­ito (the mini-World Cup) in Flo­rence for the past four years as orga­nizer, coach, and player for the Ital­ian non-professional team. The event is spon­sored by the UISP and funded by the munic­i­pal­ity of Florence.

Palankandi was born in Man­ali, at the foothills of the Himalayan Moun­tains in India. He spent his youth at the Lawrence School Sanawar board­ing school. Palankandi has showed a major ded­i­ca­tion to sports and has mas­tered activ­i­ties includ­ing cricket, hockey, soc­cer, and swim­ming. His father is orig­i­nally from Ker­ala, and his mother is from Italy. Although Palankandi is an Ital­ian cit­i­zen, he is a Hindu as well as proud of his Indian ori­gins. He is flu­ent in Hindi, Eng­lish, and Italian.

He also writes for firenzelodging.com and devan-knowitall.blogspot.com. The opin­ions expressed by Palankandi are his own and do not rep­re­sent the thoughts or ideas of his school or employ­ees from the past or future.

Writer Emer­i­tus

Jeff Guevin is an aspir­ing poly­math cur­rently study­ing law in an idyl­lic New Eng­land small town. He has worked for Boston Uni­ver­sity and Mas­sacusetts’ state wel­fare depart­ment, and most recently was a U.S. Peace Corps Vol­un­teer in Benin, West Africa. He has also writ­ten and taken pho­tographs for Spare Change News, taught sail­ing at Piers Park Sail­ing Cen­ter in East Boston, and writ­ten two blogs, Bon­jour Benin and Polit­i­gal­lus. Jeff is also a co-owner and lead writer for the Law School Ref­er­ence website.

Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in inter­na­tional rela­tions and a Mas­ter of Urban Affairs from Boston Uni­ver­sity. As an under­grad­u­ate, he con­cen­trated his stud­ies, which included a minor in reli­gion, on the Mid­dle East and Islam. He also stud­ied abroad at the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity in Cairo. He is pro­fi­cient in French and Span­ish and has a basic knowl­edge of Ara­bic. He has trav­eled on four con­ti­nents, includ­ing every country/territory in the Lev­ant, save Iraq (but he’s got­ten close).

He was born and raised in Ari­zona to par­ents whose fam­i­lies have, in large part, been in North Amer­ica since before the United States was a coun­try. He is proud of his roots but, like much of Gen­er­a­tion X, feels dera­ci­nated; on the other hand, he is con­tent to be where he is most of the time.

The thoughts and opin­ions expressed by Jeff on this blog are his and his alone and in no way rep­re­sent the thoughts and opin­ions of his school or any employ­ers past or present. They cer­tainly don’t com­port with a good deal of what Sam says.

Jeff is on LinkedIn, for what it’s worth, and encour­ages com­ments on his posts.

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  • Frank Conte

    Scott

    Nice to hear from you. I’d like to know why you moved on from Spare Change News?

    Frank  (Quote)

  • Samuel J. Scott

    Frank,

    Good to hear from you. I decided to focus on my M.B.A. stud­ies in the short term while I vol­un­teer at Spare Change and look for another job in the future.  (Quote)

  • Debbie

    Samuel,

    Just wanted to send you a quick thank you. I acci­den­tally stum­bled across your blog and spent my entire day read­ing all of your pre­vi­ous posts (well, not ALL of them but you get the idea). Finally, I have found a blog worth read­ing!  (Quote)

  • Tracy

    I just wanted to express my thanks on your views of pre-teen and teenage con­ser­v­a­tive dress. I and my imme­di­ate fam­ily are Lat­ter Day Saints. (Mor­man) but not the fun­dal­men­tal­ist sect. (paligimist) In this day and age it is very hard to teach our young girls to trust in them selves and not thier body appear­ance. So much of our world and “infor­ma­tion age” is sex,sex,sex! T.v., media, print, celebri­ties, movies., music and it goes on and on. My gues­tion is why? And how do we change it back? I have a 14yr. old and a 9yr. old and a 6yr. old daugh­ters. It is hard to steer them right. Why can’t there be role mod­les who actu­ally teach pride in ones self and not how their body looks in next to noth­ing (fash­ion)? Will we par­ents ever see the new age of con­ser­v­a­tive life in gen­ral? I pray we do and the sooner the bet­ter.  (Quote)

  • Ms. Mix & Bitch

    Just found your blog — inter­est­ing stuff. Keep up the good work. Oh and for a less cere­bral, more psycho-social take on things, visit me at my blog:

    http://www.MixTapeTherapy.com

    Until next time -

    Caren  (Quote)

  • Todd Schechter

    I have been check­ing out your blog and I’d like to sug­gest a video for you to blog about.

    http://www.jewishreconnectionproject.com
    youtube link to first episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WslLNTYzmzw

    The video is the first in a web-only mini series I pro­duced called the Jew­ish Recon­nec­tion Project. It shows young Jews in New York and Jerusalem talk­ing to each other and shar­ing how their Judaism affects their lives. It’s meant to give view­ers a sense of the diver­sity of Jews around the world and to let col­lege age peo­ple express their own ideas about Judaism. Ulti­mately, we hope that help­ing dis­parate groups of Jews under­stand each other will make for a stronger, health­ier Jew­ish com­mu­nity. New episodes will come out every Wednes­day for the next six weeks.

    Let me know what you think and if you’re inter­ested in post­ing it. I’d love to hear your feed­back on the video.

    Best,
    Todd  (Quote)

  • johnnypeepers

    Do you think the IDF will deal with Gaza or the West Bank first? Or maybe a do over of the ’06 Lebanon deba­cle? I would put my money on Gaza. Either way there is gonna be a blood­bath soon.  (Quote)

  • Sam Scott

    Johnny,

    Gaza is a more-pressing issue for Israel right now since Hamas is fir­ing mis­siles from there nearly every­day. The West Bank is as calm as it can be. How­ever, the issue is that the West Bank may erupt in protest if Israel decides to clamp down hard on Gaza to stop Hamas.

    Hizbol­lah is quiet right now. I pre­sume they (and Syria) are await­ing orders from Iran. We’ll see what hap­pens. The big fear is that Hamas in Gaza, other ter­ror­ists in the West Bank, and Hizbol­lah in the north will attack Israel from three sides at once. Israelis fear this more than they like to admit because they are no longer con­fi­dent in the IDF fol­low­ing the war in 2006.  (Quote)

  • loz

    i find your views rather nar­row minded espe­cially as a jour­nal­ist. trans atlantic flights cheaper you not see how oil just goes up and up inflaion around the world is explod­ing yeah just stay in school study eco­nom­ics as for the pales­tini­ans i think there fright­ened let down by the global com­mu­nity and the media which con­tin­u­ally por­trays ter­ror­ists not a peo­ple that are occu­pied please get your head out of your arse cos thanx to peo­ple like you there is no peace on earth shalom  (Quote)

  • Chris

    I have a trip to Jerusalem planned for April. With open­ing day right around the cor­ner, do you know of any bars that might carry the Red Sox?

    Inter­est­ing blog.

    Chris  (Quote)

  • Sam Scott

    Your best bet it’s Mike’s Place — it’s a famous American-style bar that shows Amer­i­can sports. But it will only carry games that are broad­cast on ESPN or Fox. No NESN, unfor­tu­nately.  (Quote)

  • Jones

    Scott,
    I stum­bled upon your blog today and really enjoyed read­ing some of your posts. I appre­ci­ate the way that you write and the top­ics that you choose, Great job!

    http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com  (Quote)

  • Gilal

    I’d like to have you con­tribute to my blog, in regards to Israel.

    You have some great posts that I know many will ben­e­fit from read­ing :)

    Shalom  (Quote)

  • Gaspd

    Who the hell cares about a blog?  (Quote)

  • Vinnie Russo

    Wow! Liv­ing in Israel! That’s great! I was just won­der­ing where some old Boston friends were and came across your info. Best of luck! —Vin­nie  (Quote)

  • shine

    hi. I dropped in to do my homework.

    nice to you meet you^^

    you are good jour­nal­ist!  (Quote)

  • Sam Scott

    Shine — thank you for the com­pli­ment, and good luck with your home­work.  (Quote)

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