Andrew Nelson

Career

He worked as a senior producer of Britannica.com, a creative director for Cyberflix, a visiting professor at Loyola University New Orleans, 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 Personal Computer game and Macintosh of the Year. In 2007 he was awarded a Lowell Thomas Award for his work with the Society.

He is a writer-at-large for Salon, National Geographic Traveler, ReadyMade, New York Times, Via magazine, Weekend Sherpa and San Francisco Magazine (which featured Nelson’s monthly history column).

Nelson is a Missouri School of Alumni. Harlem Renaissance websites were developed by Andrew Nelson and Tom Michael as a spotlight for Encyclopædia Britannica Online, to promote the encyclopedia and to serve customers in schools by observing the Black History Month.

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 National Geographic Society in 2010.

Achievements

• 1998: Best Animation Civil Defense-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 2011: Folio Award, Silver. Foreign magazine article "Tweet Maine 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 2011: Adrian Award (Platinum) for Public Relations (Client: The National World World War II Museum), HSMAI 2011: Adrian Award (Gold) for Public Relations (Client: The National World World War II Museum), HSMAI 2011: Adrian Award (Bronze) for Social Media (Client: The National World World War II Museum), HSMAI 2010: Silver Quill:, Merit Award for Twitter Campaign (Client: The National World World War II Museum), International Association of Business Communicators 2010: Public Relations Campaign for The Solomon Victory Theater Opening (Client: The National World World War II Museum), Press Club of New Orleans 2009: Silver Award for Twitter campaign (Client: The National World World War II Museum), Public Relations Society of America.