Amanda Miller Littlejohn is the founder of Mopwater Social Public Relations, author of the Mopwater Manual and Discover and Win Workbook and the creative visionary and writer behind the Mopwater PR + Media Notes blog. She is an idea oven and brand problem solver working at the intersection of public relations, journalism, marketing and social media. Specializing in new media and online communications, Amanda helps individuals, businesses, and organizations leverage social media and new media tools to create exciting, creative PR and marketing programs.

A PR innovator, Amanda uses social media to get the attention of traditional media. She leverages blogs, Twitter, Facebook and video campaigns to build buzz online and off.  Her social approach to public relations has led to sold-out events and traditional media placements in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Washington Business Journal, Washingtonian Magazine,  Radio One, NBC4, and countless other news and online sites/outlets.

Amanda is passionate about helping small business owners revitalize their business through creative marketing.  She also enjoys helping established communicators obtain the new media savvy so in demand in today’s marketplace.  A former journalist and a writer first by training and passion, Amanda enjoys using her journalistic training to report on the latest industry news and trends and mentor rising PR professionals through Mopwater PR + Media Notes and via LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

In her rare spare time, Amanda writes creatively and is currently laboring through a collection of five novellas-two of which won prizes in the 2006 and 2007 Larry Neal Creative Writing Awards sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Mompreneur Amanda is a dedicated  wife and  mother to the cutest toddlers in Washington, DC.