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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

AOL: Experienced Travel Writers

Talented, experienced travel writer who can produce captivating articles in a light and fun writing style.

AOL Travel, one of the leading online travel portals, seeks dedicated freelance writers to contribute 600 – 1,000 word pieces covering both domestic and international destinations as well as seasonal and holiday travel features. Your writing should be crisp, clear and timely and your literary voice strong. Please note our audience is Disney and Vegas, not backpacking and Rough Guides!

Experience writing for travel websites, blogs or other ecommerce-related outlets is a strong plus.
ecommercewriter@aol.com

Blogging About your Life Experiences

If you are an avid blogger/writer, or are looking to join the blogging craze you should become a member of SoulCast, www.soulcast.com, which is a new, rapid growing blogging-based internet company. Join our community and be among the first to be involved in our beta launch! We are looking for real people who enjoy writing so that they can put down thoughtful blogs. Writers must be original!

http://www.hypertracker.com/go/vr33526/soulcast2/houston
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobseeker/jobsearch/job_detail.html?job_id=J812382OI
http://houston.craigslist.org/etc/213947104.html

Blogging Becomes A Corporate Job

In its short lifespan, blogging has largely been a freewheeling exercise in online self-expression. Now it is also becoming a corporate job.

A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits.

Via: Wall Street Journal

Blogging as a job has emerged as companies of all stripes increasingly see the Web as an important communications venue. Blogs allow firms to assume a natural tone rather than the public-relations speak typical of some static Web pages, and readers are often invited to post comments. While some companies are hiring full-time bloggers, others are adding blogging duties to existing marketing or Web-editing positions.

Currently only 4% of major U.S. corporations have blogs available to the public, according to a recent survey by eMarketer, a New York research company. But ads for blogging jobs are popping up on online job boards in recent months. "Blogging jobs are growing in popularity," says Jennifer Sullivan, spokeswoman for CareerBuilder Inc.'s CareerBuilder.com, based in Chicago. She notes that in March she recruited a communications specialist whose job includes writing CareerBuilder's blog.