Trained as a journalist, Mark Miner is an articulate writer and speaker who clearly translates complex concepts into easily understood, punchy language. He regularly is sought for his views on a range of professional, business and community-service topics.

Among other accomplishments, Miner has authored a column in the National Law Journal on "Lawyers and the Press: Bitter Enemies or Friends?" He also has ghostwritten columns for leading executives that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times and the New Jersey Law Journal, among others.

He is founder and CEO of Minerd.com Publishing, LLC, a publisher of niche books on business, history and culture. The first title produced by the company is Well At This Time: The Civil War Diaries and Army Convalescence Saga of Ephraim Miner. (180 pages,ISBN 978-0-9837149-0-3). [ more ]

As a meeting facilitator and speaker, Miner has led strategic public relations planning for an international real estate development company, the Beaver Area Heritage Foundation and Rotary District 7300 in Western Pennsylvania. He also has conducted a boot camp on “Media Relations Do’s and Don’ts” for the Legal Marketing Association of Pittsburgh. He has lectured on entrepreneurship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business, and has been a repeat radio talk show guest on KDKA, WMBA and WBVP.

The Beaver Town 2002 coffee table book, which Miner co-authored for the Beaver Area Heritage Foundation, has won a Certificate of Achievement from the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums. His pioneering Minerd.com genealogy site has been named one of the “Top 10 Family Websites” in the nation. He is President of the National Minerd-Miner-Minor Reunion, which draws more than 100 annually, and has authored scores of historical articles that have appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other news publications throughout Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

In 2006, he received the Lawrence A. Frost Memorial Award for his article, "Tontogany's Deep Secret," published nationally in the Research Review magazine of the Little Big Horn Associates, about the life and times of Thomas C. Custer, illegitimate son of two-time Civil War Medal of Honor winner Thomas Ward Custer, and the nephew of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Miner's profile of forgotten artist/writer Allen E. Harbaugh ("The Mountain Poet") appeared in Western Pennsylvania History, the magazine of the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center.