About Nimble

What makes us quick, agile and, yes, nimble, as a company? We adapt our content and social media-based process to fit your business–and that’s not empty fluff. It’s inherent in our process.

Here’s the nutshell version of what we do: Take time-honored content gathering techniques, mix them with magazine-quality writing and a well-balanced, yet nuanced, expertise and activity in social media marketing.

We haven’t reinvented the wheel here: man has been interviewing fellow man and scribing the results for others to peruse since clay tablets came into style. We just happen to be able to do just that online and across various social networks while creating engaging content about your business, employees, respective industry and community.

What we do that’s different is take care of it all for you.

You, your employees and your company have a voice. Let us help you find it and responsibly get it out to the world.

Joseph “Jody” Robbins
Nimble Social Media

An ever-active newspaper reporter and magazine writer & editor, Jody has been publishing continuously since he first entered the lottery #’s and weather into the green-screened computer system at Louisville, Kentucky’s “The Courier-Journal” in 1996. Since that inauspicious beginning, gained as a young news clerk immediately after graduating with an English degree from the University of Louisville, he went on to write for newspapers in his home state of Kentucky, then in Colorado and Montana (first at “The Steamboat Pilot” in Steamboat Springs, Colo., then at “The Whitefish Pilot” outside of Glacier National Park in Whitefish, Mont.).

It was during that time spent writing, working at restaurants and snowboarding & kayaking that he began to write for national magazines, beginning with a feature piece in the Dec. 31, 1999, issue of “Wine Spectator” magazine. Gaining a taste for it, he would go on to publish in more than 50 different magazines and newspapers, including: Robb Report, Wine & Spirits, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, WHERE Chicago, Transworld Snowboarding Business, to name a few. His subject matter knows no bounds; he’s written about food and wine extensively but also about adventure sports, travel, arts & entertainment, nightlife, and–to his great chagrin–women’s shoes one time. The interview he did with human genome mapper Craig Ventner was a much prouder moment.

He has now turned that extensive background in content and managing editorial plans and staffs online. The former Director of Editorial & New Media at Concierge Preferred magazine, a Chicago visitor industry publication, he brings a well-rounded knowledge of the total online media landscape to the table. Social media; web development coordination; SEO; website=business goal consulting; and creative answers to most questions are on tap.

When not populating the web with great Google results, he spends time with his wife and two daughters; swears he’s getting a dog sooner rather than later; likes to lead an active outdoor life; reads lot of history and, yes, he did play D&D in high school. If you don’t know what that is, it’s for the better; if you do, don’t hold it against him.

Rita J. Fisher
Nimble Social Media

A high-detail online operator with skills in both written content and online design, Rita is the steel trap side of Nimble Social Media. When a task, assignment or project comes her way, it meets its end efficiently and with no time wasted.

As far as abilities, Rita writes clean, entertaining, ready-to-print copy of all kinds, varying it based on the needed tone, voice, etc. She’s also well-versed in the formatting and publication of online content in all its forms, from working a top-level blog to any and all social media platforms. When it comes to working with clients, she’s all about taking real world business objectives and translating them into a well-built (yet malleable) online strategy. She produces on-the-spot mock-ups/techniques to get the ball rolling, allowing clients to change their mind before any time is wasted going down paths that may ne’er have been trod.

Besides managing online content, Rita concepts and executes social media strategy, having done so for Concierge Preferred Magazine and Autobarn Motors, among others, and has been busy making her way into the Chicago social media scene. Looking deeper than all that, Rita is about versatility, just like Nimble Social Media. Have a question about how social media fits your business? About your online brand presence? Rita and the rest of the team will do the research and due diligence to figure out where you need to be, online, and keep you doing your job.

A native of Chicago, Rita graduated from Hamilton College in Central New York with her concentration in Psychology and an even higher tolerance for snow. When not tending her online projects, she is all about creating her own line of jewelry; careening around in her GTI; tending to the office mascot, Evie; and experiencing all her hometown of Chicago has to offer.