Vital Business Media is looking for bloggers / journalists who are passionate about and inspired by the disruptive change that the newspaper and magazine industries are facing. We are launching an online community and information site to help these businesses adopt and implement successful online strategies and tactics.

We are seeking a Managing Editor to spearhead these efforts. This individual will produce insightful, business-focused content for emedia professionals and executives at newspaper and magazine companies, as well as managing a small team of industry bloggers who will work remotely.

You should actively utilize social networks, blog, and demonstrate thought leadership in your areas of expertise. Video experience is highly beneficial.

Please do not send resumes. Instead, please send an email to jobs@vitalbusinessmedia.com with only the following information:

1. A brief summary of your qualifications (100 words or less)
2. Links to your blog(s) or website
3. Your social media footprint (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook profiles, etc.)
4. Links to particularly good reference / evergreen content you’ve created.

Position is full-time, located in NYC. Compensation details will be provided during the application process.

To learn more about Vital Business Media, go to our website at www.vitalbusinessmedia.com.

Job Description:
An entry level programming position that facilitates the distribution, promotion and online community awareness of the African-American female lifestyle content of HelloBeautiful.com (and other Interactive One sites).

Responsibilities:
1. Increase monthly traffic to HelloBeautiful.com (HB) the through effective selection and submission of HB’s content to social media outlets (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube), related content sites and blogs, news aggregators (digg, del.i.cious.com, global grind), heat indexes (Google Zeitgeist, Yahoo Buzz!) and more.

2. Identify relevant and topical stories and subject matter “buzzing” on the web to the HB editorial team to create new content.

3. Write/produce featured blog on HelloBeautiful.com, updated daily.

Job Requirements:
Key Qualifications:

1. Expertise with all forms of social media and online communities. Knowledge must go beyond simple user experience with Facebook, Twitter, etc but go into programming and marketing insight into all the socially fueled content experiences on the web

2. Love for the medium with a focus on social marketing outreach, audience insight and development, and an understanding of what makes something “viral.”

3. Comfort and experience with negotiating content/distribution deals with other web sites, “cold-calling” web editors, and engaging with unfamiliar online communities

4. In-depth experience with, knowledge of, and/or affinity for, the various African-American online audiences

5. In-depth experience with, knowledge of, and/or affinity for, the various female online audiences

6. Motivated by high-energy, high-stress, highly tracked work environment
The ideal candidate must be motivated by a fast-paced, high-energy 24/7 work environment that is driven by aggressive personal and team traffic goals that are measured daily

Required Experience:
1-2 years online programming experience
3-4 years online social networking experience

**The interview process for this job will be filmed for use in a TV Series. If you do not want to be filmed please do not apply**

**All applicants must be available for interviews in New York City the week of February 1st.**

PLEASE EMAIL ALL RESUMES TO: troberts@interactiveone.com

Job Criteria:
Start Date: February 2010
Position Type: Full-Time Permanent
Years of Experience Required: 3
Education Required: Bachelors
Overnight Travel: None
Vacation Time:

Job Benefits:
Health/Dental Benefits, Retirement Benefits, Paid Holidays, Vacations, and Sick Leave, Life and/or Disability Insurance, Casual Dress, Transportation Subsidies

Company Profile:
Interactive One is ignited by its mission to create an online community that engages and positively impacts the lives of African Americans.
Interactive One empowers African-American men and women by providing news, information, entertainment, connections and resources that meet the unique needs of this audience’s core values.
A division of Radio One Inc., Interactive One was launched in 2007 to complement existing Radio One brands and create the leading digital African-American network.
Since its launch, Interactive One has succeeded at becoming the #1 African-American digital platform – super-serving more than 9 million monthly users.

Contact Information:

Web Site: http://www.interactiveone.com

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Categories:
Editorial & Writing

Skill Level: Entry level

Position Type: Limited Contract

Justmeans.com has the largest audience of professionals focused on Good Work, with over 1 million visitors in the last 6 months alone.  This is an excellent opportunity for savvy thought leaders wishing to increase their online presence through writing for a fast growing social networking community dedicated to doing business- better.  All writers will receive ongoing promotional support from the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) team at Justmeans.

Position Overview:

The Editorial section on Justmeans can be found here. Qualified applicants should have solid writing skills and be able to demonstrate a strong understanding in 1 of the below 9 categories:

1. Finance
2. Energy/Clean Technology
3. Health
4. Climate Change
5. Sustainable Development
6. Social Entrepreneurship
7. CSR
8. Green City Guide-New York
9. Green City Guide- San Francisco

Editorial posts need to be comprehensive, well-thought out and topical.  Editors need to appeal to an audience that is both technical and representative of the general public.

Responsibilities:

3 posts per week on Justmeans.com and 1 post per week on an external Justmeans blog.  All posts must be interesting professional pieces, with no grammar errors, and must follow all the Justmeans SEO posting guidelines.

Compensation: All editorial bloggers receive the support from the SEO team at Justmeans to get their post listed, searched, optimized and promoted on social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.  Editors and Authors will be compensated with $150 per month.

To Apply:

Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume/CV and a writing sample to the Co-Founder of Justmeans, Kevin Long. Applicants should state in the cover letter which of the 9 categories they are interested in covering and why.

When you apply for this position, please say you saw this job on Green Dream Jobs!!

Contact Information:
Kevin Long
212 481 5781 (phone)
klong@justmeans.com
http://justmeans.com

Applicant should be able to write to a female genX and Y audience in a concise, clean and trendy manner. Quirky is good too..

please send me a quick note about yourself and samples of your work.

More details…

I’m looking for a contributing editor to supply 1 article per week about Alternative Health.
I’m not seeking to hire just anyone who can research on Google a few things and then squeeze out
an article — no. I’m seeking someone who really knows about healing themselves with alternative
medicine — preferably vegans who have been using food as their main source of preventative medicine
for years.

Starting pay is $15 per published article.

Contact details

Experience as a blogger and/or freelancer writer is a must.

Our company, SuretyBonds.com, is a nationwide bonding agency.  Surety bonds are similar to an insurance product, and exist in more professions and transactions than you might imagine.  It’s tough to keep up!

The position is ongoing and will require about 8 hours of work per week (estimate).  Pay will be based either on # of posts or by the hour.  Rate depending on experience and qualifications.

Inquire here.  I look forward to working with you.

Brosix is an Instant Messenger that is designed to improve communication in companies, organizations and teams. Everyone can go to our web site and build his/her own Instant Messaging Network in a minute and start using it right away. Having your own Instant Messenger for the communication in the office or between multiple offices brings great advantages.

More information about Brosix can be found on its web site www.Brosix.com.

There is also a version open to the public – www.Brosix.org.

Brosix blog is at blog.brosix.com

Executive Summary

Brosix is an exciting business that has created an application for companies to use their instant message service on the enterprise level. They want to continue to communicate their company mission and message to the business community and to expose their product and service to a large number of potential customers and users of their application. They want to accomplish this through the use of blogging and social media and to be seen as company of choice in their area. Once people become aware of Brosix application they will provide word of mouth marketing to spread the word to others that might also be looking for their application. This proposal outlines the process for providing content for the Brosix blog.

Brosix Goals

The goals of this project are as follows:

1. Create awareness of the Brosix website and application and increase brand awareness.
2. Generate organic search traffic that will lead people to the website and business.
3. Communicate company news and events as well as correspond the company mission and message.
4. Become aware and responsive to people discussing the business online.
5. Create brand awareness and community among the target market of customers seeking the service.
6. Educate the customer to the use of the application and in turn create word of mouth marketing.

What will the blogger do

• The blogger will post content on Brosix blog – 3 posts per week, each post to be between 200 and 300 words per post, incorporating as necessary photo, audio files or other such additional content. The blogger will also be responsible for interacting with the community (i.e. Brosix’ target market) by responding to comments on the blog.

  The blogger will be responsible for posting that content of their own making – text, pictures and videos.

  Monitoring of blog mentions.

• Monitor the blogosphere for comments and posts related to Brosix and provide feedback to marketing and sales as needed.
• Community outreach is the blogger’s time in participating in communities. The blogger will go out into the marketplace and comment on other blogs, in forums, and across the social mediasphere. They will leave a minimum of 20 such comments or conversation starters per month. The URL’s where this occurs will be reported to Brosix for their use and tracking.

  A Twitter page, a Facebook page and other social networking sites should also be opened for Brosix. This is different that responding to comments and moderating conversations on the Brosix blog.

  Commenting on related blogs (community and relationship building).

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• Passionate about the Apple revolution and looking to spread the word?
• An obsessed OS X platform evangelist?
• Just interested in blogging about the Mac scene?

We want to hear from you! Why not join our dedicated team of dozens of same minded Mac writers? Aside from plenty of street cred you will also have the opportunity to win cash prizes and software for your efforts. That’s right, real money for spending. On top of free schwag you are also guaranteed to meet a hard working and dedicated group of professionals. You might even learn something.

Get started now. The only requirement is that you have a Mac to test software and you posses some level of creative skills. Not interested in writing? No problem, tell us what you can bring to the table, or how you can help us make this a better community.

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