About W. Donald Orkoskey
Hi I’m W. Donald “Don” Orkoskey, a photographer and designer from Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. I’m a passionate volunteer and board member of Neighbors in the Strip, the Strip District’s neighborhood community development and economic improvement organization.
Photography & Design
I’ve worked as an event, editorial, and architectural photographer, a web and graphic designer, community developer, social media analyst, and information analyst for over a decade. I now own my own photography business: WDO Photography.
I have a passion for the human condition and an eye for attention-grabbing composition. I’ve forged a style that reflects my views of the world and my ambition pushes me to create community minded; people-centric websites.
Social Media
My community centered vision is what drew me to online social networking and helped me build a very large, active, and diverse social network. I was an early adapter of such social media websites as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and a myriad of others, (many since their inception). I’m also an experienced blogger, I founded and have maintained several blogs for more than 5 years including my primary blog blog.orkoskey.com.
I’m a strong believer in the Internet’s ability to create strong and vibrant offline communities and in the web’s ability to increase social capital. Much of this developed from the hours I spent in chat-rooms and on message board while in high-school in the mid 1990s.
Now I teach others how to use social media to increase their bottom line, to troubleshoot customer complaints, to increase their search engine rankings, and to better connect with their audience.
I live in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood with my wife Dr. Teresa M. Orkoskey PharmD and our hairless dog Iggy. When not photographing, designing, or twittering I can be found volunteering with non-profits, teaching people how to rollerblade, riding my motor-scooter, shopping locally, or encouraging others to do so.
