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BlogWork is the blog writing and technology job board.
If you are a technology expert in areas such as Blog Writing, Filtering Daily Media, Ad Sales, and Blog Technology, then this the place to find blogging jobs.

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College Recruiters Use Student Bloggers

Colleges seeking a competitive edge are increasingly enlisting and sometimes paying student bloggers to chronicle their lives online. The results run the gamut from insightful to boring, but the goal is the same: to find a new way to win the attention of the MySpace generation. "We found it a much freer, less constricting, far more believable way of letting prospective students glimpse what was going on on campus," said Seth Allen, dean of admissions at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

» washingtonpost.com [ Contribute: submit link / submit article / submit company ]

über bloggers

It's no secret that bloggers are becoming increasingly influential. But Arrington is part of an emerging crowd of writers who use their narrowly focused blogs, such as hyperlocal real estate reports, green guides, or Web 2.0 startup reviews, to establish themselves as thought leaders. These new influencers are taking a page from the blog networks Gawker and Weblogs Inc. and turning rapid-fire, around-the-clock blog patter that makes and shapes the news into a hot new online media model.

Companies are directing more efforts toward buttering up these New Media players, often feeding them exclusives that play well with their targeted audiences. And for marketers who are increasingly comfortable with spending money on blogs, advertising with these opinion leaders provides instant cachet.

Think of these as the digital version of potent, passionate trade press writers. They swarm every novelty in areas like tech, creating problems and buzz for companies and innovations. They report news and publish it alongside analysis of newspaper stories and company releases. These posts are salted with strong doses of personality, sparking discussions across the Web. By melding their own insights and opinions with the aggregated views of others, they're starting to gain leverage. "In a time-starved world, people—especially decision-makers—have very little time, but do not want to miss being in the know," says Rishad Tobaccowala, chief innovation officer at advertising firm Publicis Groupe Media.

» Business Week

Wells Fargo - Social Media Program Manager

Do your project management skills make you a star in Web 2.0 world? Can you balance multiple priorities like a gymnast on the balance beam? Have you seen bumper stickers that said "Plays well with others" and thought they were talking about you? Then you might have the rare set of skills needed to be a social media program manager at Wells Fargo. Rated by FORTUNE as the US’s “most admired bank”, Wells Fargo is a leading Financial Services innovator. We are leading the adoption of “social media” in the finance industry, including bogging, consumer-generated media (CGM), wikis and other emerging “Web 2.0” technologies.

For more information and qualification, go to: www.wellsfargo.com/careers/findajob and search for requisition number 3106015.

Wells Fargo - Social Media Editor

Are you leveraging your literary experience in the Web 2.0 world? Do you have the patience to mentor others? Can you artfully navigate the reputation landmines of today's business world? Then you might have the rare set of skills needed to be a social media editor at Wells Fargo. Rated by FORTUNE as the US’s “most admired bank”, Well Fargo is a leading Financial Services innovator. We are leading the adoption of “social media” in the finance industry, including blogging, consumer-generated media (CGM), wikis and other emerging “Web 2.0” technologies.

For more information and qualification, go to: www.wellsfargo.com/careers/findajob and search for requisition number 3106017.

A Survey of Talent: A discussion with Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Bureau Chief of The Economist

"There is intense competition at the moment to hire the most talented and most intellectually able people ... We have a shortage of talent both within countries and between countries, and there is an intense battle between companies trying to hire the most talented workers and also between countries which are looking to recruit talented young immigrants."

» Search Job-Specific Tags: Training - Talent - Blogging

[mp3] Listen or Download / The Economist

Senior Online Editor - Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP)

The candidate who fills this important and wide-ranging position will play a hands-on role in developing and managing content for a major new destination web site for business executives.

The Senior Online Editor will help recruit, manage and edit columnists and freelancers, manage and contribute to blogs, help create and shepherd new text and multimedia features, line edit copy, write display copy and promos, help manage user-contribution and community-building features, collaborate with producers to develop new interactive tools, as well as report and write original content.

  • 5-7 years of notable journalism experience, at least 2 of which have been in an online environment
  • Significant demonstrated knowledge of business and management ideas
  • Experience managing columnists and high-powered contributors
  • Stellar editorial skills, especially line editing

» Resume and cover letter, including salary requirments, to: openjobs@hbsp.harvard.edu

Blogs as leading indicators

This interview was hosted by Brendan Greeley, the blogger-in-chief for the US public radio program Open Source , and the author of The Economist's survey on new media, Andreas Kluth.

[mp3] Listen or Download / The Economist

Paid Freelance Video Bloggers - AOL

Company: AOL
CityGuide Position: Paid Freelance Video Bloggers
Location: Multiple U.S. Cities, United States
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires: November 30, 2006
Job ID: 696762

Description: Paid Freelance Video Bloggers
Savvy, professional video bloggers/writers for national blog network. The ability to write short, quippy daily posts and photo/video captions is essential. Also necessary:

  • No fear of man-on-the-street interviews
  • An engaging, edgy, informed voice
  • Ease and familiarity with social networking applications and Web sites
  • A keen knowledge of the city you live in
  • The ability to pitch well-rounded, creative ideas based on your city knowledge
  • A decent video camera and ability to upload videos (credited to you) We are currently looking for bloggers in the following cities: New York City The San Francisco Bay Area Austin St. Louis Seattle Chicago Washington, DC Los Angeles Atlanta New Orleans

In order to be eligible for this opportunity, you must submit a resume and writing + samples in the body of an e-mail. ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please include URLs to point us to examples of your video work.

Please include a link to your blog and personal Web site if you have one! Send to: BlogAd@aol.com. Include your city name in the Subject line of your mail.

Assistant podcast editor for Bloomberg.com

CATEGORY: News / LOCATION: New York / EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Experienced

DESCRIPTION:
Bloomberg News is seeking an assistant podcast editor for Bloomberg.com. at
its New York office.This job requires the ability to perform detailed
editing, assembly and production tasks daily. Responsibilities include:

  • Assist the podcast editor in creating daily audio and video podcasts.
  • Edit and produce podcasts, both original content as well as repurposed
    from audio and video materials.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum two to three years broadcast production and podcast experience.
  • Strong knowledge of digital audio practices and procedures including
    dialog editing and signal processing.
  • Proficiency as an audio editor using Adobe Audition and Digidesign Pro
    Tools, and podcast file preparation using Apple's GarageBand.
  • Proficiency as a video editor using Avid and Sony Vegas. Experience with
    Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere also desirable.

REQUISITION NUMBER: 18735
careers.bloomberg.com

Multilingual Blogger

Briggs Internet Media PTY LTD requires Multilingual Blogger, that can blog about stuff in several different languages. We would like to hire a blogger that can write in Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian or any other language out there. We would like to pay one person who can write in several different languages a fulltime monthly income or if you can only write in one langauge that is fine to, we can afford to pay a attractive per post fee as well. Please contact Mark Briggs at mbr68237@bigpond.net.au

Holiday Blogger

We're looking for a seriously festive blogger who gets giddy with glee each time just about any holiday pops up on their calendar. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Year's, Easter and on and on the holidays roll by and each holiday season has its own rituals, tastes, smells, color palette and style. Our versatile and respectful holiday blogger will keep readers coming back with a cornucopia of good humor, interesting links, factoids and tidbits and a personality that exudes 'seasons greetings' and 'good holiday cheer'. This is a paid blogger position.

Please contact us at greetings@dailypixel.ca with 2-3 sample posts you have written that you think are a good fit for our holiday blog and any URLs of blogs you currently write or are involved with.

Business Blogging Seminars

[mp3] Intro to Six Apart's Seminar on Business Blogging

Blog Business Summit

Are you interested in learning how to leverage blogging for your business? If so, you should have been at Blog Business Summit last week!

Two common themes were search engine optimization (SEO) and engagement with your blog's audience. Google favors fresh content and links -- so, the simplest way to drive more traffic to a blog is to give your posts more google-relevant titles. Blogs also have great potential to engage readers in a conversation about their content. Robert Scoble mentioned that his blog's audience's engagement level is much higher than most websites because he brings his personality to his blog & stays authentic.

via: BlogCo

The Executive Guide to the BlogoSphere [PDF]

Christopher Graves, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
Download PDF: BlogoSphere

SixApart: Product Manager - Movable Type

Six Apart (www.sixapart.com) is growing and they're looking for a Product Manager for Movable Type, the world’s most advanced blogging platform. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding customer needs, maintaining the product roadmap, specifying and driving development of the platform and key applications and working with internal engineers and their developer network to keep the MT platform on the cutting edge.

The ideal candidate is passionate about customers, detail-oriented, analytical, loves technology and excels at building relationships and coordinating people to drive projects to completion.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the product roadmap.
  • Translate customer and market needs into product requirements.
  • Liaise with our developer and professional services communities to both receive and give guidance on the platform roadmap and key functionality.
  • Collaborate with UI designers, developers, QA, operations and marketing to drive new features and applications to market successfully.
  • Work closely with engineers to specify and scope features and understand and optimize functionality / time-to-market tradeoffs.
  • Track and report on key business metrics and user behavior patterns to drive customer-centric product design decisions.

To apply, please send a cover letter and attached resume to sixapart@techventure.com with the subject line Position: Product Manager.

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Gawker Media - Sales

New York, NY 10012
You know who you are! You've been in interactive media for at least 3 years; probably started on the agency side, since moved to sales and enjoyed some success but by the looks of the sycophants they promote you know its going to be a long slog. You're wondering how you are going to get ahead -- more client exposure, more territory, greater T&E discretion and of course larger budget and the trappings that go with..

Extremely advanced sales planners, account executives and sales managers all encouraged to be touch

Please no attachments -- have a look at our full complement of titles at gawker.com/advertising and give us 5 bullet points on where you've been and what you bring -- via email, to sales AT gawker.com.

Special consideration given to alumni of the Congressional Page Program

We look forward to hearing from you!

AskJeeves: General Manager, Bloglines

Oakland/Campbell, CA

Bloglines is the worlds most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, tracking, and reading news feeds, blogs and rich live web content. Bloglines helps busy people find and consume high volumes of information by scanning the Internet for fresh updated content and making that content readily searchable, manageable and readable. Bloglines is a division of Ask.com, an IAC/InteractiveCorp Company.

Position Summary:

As the GM of Bloglines you will be responsible for overall management of Bloglines including driving and overseeing the product, partner, marketing, customer acquisition and PR strategy and operations of the business. You will be the primary public spokesperson for Bloglines and will be expected to be a leading voice in the industry by conveying enthusiasm and passion for both Bloglines and the blogging/online syndicated content industry.

Ideally, you will have already established a strong internet background, with proficiency in analytical thinking and creative problem solving. You also posses the ability to manage direct and indirect reports and resources, the aptitude to thrive in fast-paced environment, and the capacity to work well with all levels of the organization.

Given the public visibility of this position, you should be comfortable with speaking in public and communicating with the media. You should also share our enthusiasm for and experience with blogging (reading and/or writing).

Click here to apply to Ask.com

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Prefab.com is looking for a blogger to cover prefab and modular homes.

Prefab homes are back. They get built faster and on a predictable schedule, with the potential for higher quality and lower cost.

Must be interested in this market (otherwise you'll be bored!), but no specific experience is required. Must enjoy learning new things, and writing informative articles about relevant topics.

About half of the job involves blogging, i.e. following the industry and linking to daily news. A picture for each blog post is encouraged, e.g. from Flickr (with permission), free photo sites, or vendors.

The other half of the job is "web researcher and writer". We want prefab.com to become the #1 source of information on prefab and modular homes, with "how to" articles, descriptions of different types of prefab, real case studies and homeowner stories, information about the people, companies and products in the industry, original interviews, and more.

jobs@prefab.com

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WSJ: Interactive News Reader

The Wall Street Journal Online seeks an Interactive News Reader to work with our growing video and blog efforts. The job includes daily selection and posting of video to the WSJ.com site. It also includes creation of our weekly legal newsletter and helping with the publication of our blogs.

Candidates should have several years of professional reporting or editing experience and feel comfortable working with print, online and video media.

Interactive News Reader (103851)

AOL: Blogging GURU Needed to Lead Team

Are you interested in thinking of, conceptualizing and building cool new products that will help AOL set the standard of what happens next on the Web?

Basically, we are a small team of quick thinking, agile developers and designers and we are committed to stirring up the pot, breaking old conventions and moving a once large and complex organization into a fast moving start-up.

The AOL Mountain View Blogging team is looking for a talented leader who can oversee 4-6 engineers, working on AOL's blogging products and platform.

monicadavis11@aol.com or 650-937-3812.

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Online Forum/Blog Writer Needed (palo alto)

Palo Alto-based startup seeks Internet user to help spread information about our new consumer empowerment service. We are looking for the right person to publicize our pro-consumer service by providing a helpful presence in several Internet communities. You will visit these communities and interact with them honestly using good “netiquette” while helping to answer questions by community members. You may also help us with some viral marketing through other Internet forums. We are focused on good ethics and want somebody who can communicate our message ethically and effectively.

The startup is managed by entrepreneurs with Harvard, Yale, and Stanford backgrounds. We have an exciting service ready to launch and need the right person to help us. You will become an essential part of our marketing team.
job-219467606@craigslist.org
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/wri/219467606.html

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Sell Blogging/Bloggers to Corporations

Sell a menu of services for Blogging to Corporations. Join a new division of an establish staffing firm aimed at Internet selling of services. Background in advertising media, PR, Publishing, Politics, Film Producing, or Technology is applicable. Help build a new initiative to sell bloggers, blog development & performance as well as other staffing services to a variety of industries. Outstanding ground floor internet based opportunity with generious commission plan.

Must have many industry contacts and the ability to sell the new concept of blogging. There are 70,000 new blogs/day going live on the internert...many are corporate blogs. Will consider retirees, stay at home Moms or Dads, or anyone with a sales track record.

Full time or part time. Email resume: job-220936216@craigslist.org
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/sls/220936216.html

NYT: Wordpress Web Developer

NYTimes.com, the #1 newspaper site with 1.7 million worldwide visitors a day, is seeking an experienced Wordpress Developer to manage our highly-trafficked and growing set of blogs (http://www.nytimes.com/blogs).  Beyond having experience with the Wordpress platform and its plug-ins, the ideal candidate will be a savvy, all-around web applications developer who is comfortable in a LAMP environment. This position is in the software development group of NYTimes.

Requirements:

  • 3-5 years expertise in hand-coding HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML across a range of browsers
  • 2-3 years experience programming in PHP
  • 2-3 years experience developing and maintaining Wordpress blogs
  • Strong working knowledge of SQL and Apache (mod_include a major plus)
  • Experience working in a Unix environment (FreeBSD a plus)
  • General familiarity with internet networking
  • Enthusiasm for emerging technology, especially AJAX and Web 2.0 APIs
  • bility to weigh editorial and design concerns against technical constraints

http://jobs.nytimes.com/texis/apply?id=452f37b56d6320

Entertainment / Young Readers Reporter

The successful candidate will cover mostly entertainment news and issues important to young readers, mainly high-school and college students. Preference given to candidates who embrace the Internet and have experience with Podcasts, blogs and other online features. Will also cover a school committee to help generate ideas. This candidate must be able to talk easily to teens and people in their young 20s and must be able to build sources.

The Sentinel & Enterprise, Fitchburg, Massachusetts -- Full-time
Interested candidates should send resume, cover letter, references, work samples and salary requirements to Jeff McMenemy, Editor, The Sentinel & Enterprise, 808 Main St., Fitchburg, MA 01420.

SixApart: UI Engineer

Six Apart (www.sixapart.com), the weblogging software and services company behind LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad, is looking for skilled and motivated user interface engineers to work with us in building our industry-leading products and services.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain user interfaces for LiveJournal and TypePad using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Perl.
  • Work closely with the design, product and engineering teams to deliver an excellent user experience for Six Apart’s services.

To apply, please send your resume to sixapart@techventure.com Subject: UI Engineer

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Lead Blogging Engineer Needed - Mountain View CA

Come join the AOL Silicon Valley team. We inspire the world's largest online community that is millions of customers strong.

At the moment, we are focused on a wide variety of products that is helping to build AOL's online audienceon the Web...products like Webmail storage, AIM pages for Buddies, AOL pictures/Shared photo albums, AOL journals, Alerts and Reminders, Uncut Video, AIM pages and more!

We are looking for an innovative and motivated Sr. Engineer to lead a team of 4-6 working on AOL's blogging products and platform.

Some responsibilities will include contributing significant portions of code to various projects, as well as helping to ensure the software being delivered by the overall team is well thought out and of excellent quality.

Your technical background should include 5 years of web application development for high trafficked environments and a proven ability to produce high quality code utilizing Java, DHTML/XML, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Apache/Tomcat on Linux.

There are more details to this job if you are interested and think you may be a good fit...otherwise, feel free to contact me about the other openings we have: monicadavis11@aol.com or 650-937-3812.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/eng/219255913.html

Part-Time Blogging Opportunities

We are a technology company that enables small business web sites with blogs, discussion forums, and other interactive web modules. We are in the process of developing a catalog of bloggers to offer to our current customer base interested in outsourcing their entire blog. In this role, you would start by calling the client for a brief interview on the blog entry they would like created and the content to be included. You would then write the blog entry. The work can be done virtually and around your schedule. If you are interested, please respond to this message with the following information.

  • A writing sample, preferably appropriate for the target customer base of a small business (feel free to make assumptions)
  • Preferred billing rate ($X per hour, $X per word, $X per blog entry, etc.)
  • Number of hours per month you are interested in

job-219396175@craigslist.org
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/wri/219396175.html

SixApart: Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System

Six Apart (www.sixapart.com), the company behind LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the technical aspects of Six Apart’s advertising efforts across all its product lines, which include two of the most highly trafficked sites on the internet. The Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System will create and maintain an ad serving infrastructure, analyze the performance of various types of campaigns and optimize revenues from advertising. They will also define the approval processes for advertising campaigns and work cross-functionally to review and approve campaigns. The Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System is an interdisciplinary individual who works closely with Marketing and Sales, from within Engineering, to maximize advertising revenues while maintaining security and privacy.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy and maintain Six Apart’s ad serving infrastructure.
  • Develop A/B testing protocols and continuously improve ad revenues.
  • Evaluate proposed ad campaigns and perform any engineering duties necessary to roll them out.
  • Write/deploy web-based reporting tools allowing access to and analysis of advertising campaigns.
  • Provide regular reports to company stakeholders.

To apply, please send your resume to sixapart@techventure.com with the subject line Position: Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System.

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Online Section Editor (Blog/Web)

Pluck Corporation / Austin, TX / Full Time, Employee
Pluck Corporation transforms how end-users and Internet publishers consume and create information online. Pluck helps its customers leverage the open content model emerging as the cornerstone for Web 2.0 services. We are seeking motivated, team-minded individuals from the journalism and online media worlds who can serve as topical, subject matter experts for our BlogBurst syndication network, which is centered around open content services. We are currently seeking a Section Editor on a full-time or contract basis, depending on need.

Responsibilities:
As Pluck's Section Editor, you will work with the BlogBurst editorial team through in-depth content analysis, packaging content and organizing blog categories and topics. You will also provide general editorial support for the following:

  • Select and approve blogs for the BlogBurst syndication network.
  • Perform regular blog audits of blogs already in the network.
  • Nurture participating bloggers to improve their contributions into BlogBurst.
  • Monitor topical trends in their content sections to highlight hot content for Pluck customers.
  • Manage blog content in assigned sections to ensure best relevancy and content quality delivery.

To Apply: http://www.MyChoiceEngine.com/Role/28475

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SixApart: Sr. Sys Admin/Ops Eng -TypePad

Six Apart (http://www.sixapart.com/), the company behind LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad, is looking for excellent system administators to help us grow our services. Six Apart Operations is responsible for the health, uptime and performance of our production infrastructure including applications, databases, systems, networks and storage.

Responsibilities

  • Proactive monitoring of Six Apart services.
  • Work closely with Engineering, QA and vendors on deployment, rollback, etc.
  • Aggressively automate to increase quality and and scale. Develop and document repeatable operational procedures.
  • Participate in the on-call pager rotation along with all other members of the team.
  • Plan and execute routine maintenance while minimizing riskand application downtime.
  • Plan and execute capacity and capabilities growth. Assist with planning the overall strategy for the Operations team

To apply, please send a cover letter and attached resume to sixapart@techventure.com with the subject line Position: Product Manager.

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