Ellen Barone

Dreamer, entrepreneur, travel expert, radio host, speaker, photojournalist and content editor. Primary responsibilities for the past decade have been implementing new ways of utilizing the Internet, Social Media, marketing, advertising, creativity, and brand management.  

Since 1998 – Freelance Travel Content Provider + Editor

•             Founder, EllenBarone.com: Keeping Travelers in the Know and On the Go

Catering to individuals who enjoy a traveler’s lifestyle, EllenBarone.com is one-stop shopping for travel tips, vacation advice, product reviews, photo galleries and articles to help readers travel better, smarter and more inspired.  

Delivering a highly targeted, active and engaged audience, EllenBarone.com is viewed by hundreds of thousands of monthly readers hoping to better inform their travels - and lives.

•              Co-founder and Content Editor, YourLifeIsATrip.com

A group travel blog, YourLifeIsATrip.com was founded on the belief that there is no division between your travels, your life, your soul, your wellbeing, your relationships, your money, your work, your play. Different voices. Different subjects. All related by the common theme–life as a trip.

Since its soft-launch in January 2009, thanks to an assemblage of 50+ talented contributors, the site has enjoyed double-digit growth on the new reader and new subscriber fronts and attracted national media attention.

•             Travel content provider, Trusted Adventures

Content services included the creation and delivery of exclusive travel tips, surveys, Q&A, and destination features for the adventure travel consortium website TrustedAdventure.com.

•              Co-author, adventure travel blog, The Wild Pair.

Smart, sassy, and savvy information and tips on how to turn your next vacation into a life-enhancing experience.

•              Radio host, Travel Talk with Ellen Barone, Blog Talk Radio.

As useful as it is entertaining, the show talks in-depth about travel and photography, people and diversity, adventure and self-discovery.

1986 – 1998 — Secondary mathematics teacher, Cumberland Valley School District

1996 – 1997 — Travel sabbatical, 13-month road trip, Canada, US, Mexico.

1991- 1992 — Fulbright teacher exchange, Scotland, UK

Professional Society Memberships, present and past:

Society of American Travel Writers

American Society of Media Photographers

Education

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics