Jobs in Social Media

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Social Media Internships at Venture-backed Startup Building Next Gen Real Estate Web2.0 Applications

Are you an accomplished Junior, Senior or Master's college student with a passion for the web and social media sites (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, blogs)? SmartZip is looking for bright, creative and motivated interns who are team players, curious about the blogosphere and Web 2.0, and want to play a leading role in shaping and implementing our online media strategy. SmartZip, an exciting, venture-backed entrepreneurial company, is developing the next generation web platform that will change the… Continue

Added by Saman Dias on February 5, 2009 at 3:47pm — 1 Comment

Promoting Commerce thru Connectivity, Community, and Content

Find that many prospective clients looking for social media infrastructure, so my swat team is busy,
working hard to streamline "call to action" and need more metrics, and measurement tools,
If you know some good ones, let me know.

Added by Lou Sagar on January 31, 2009 at 11:04pm — 5 Comments

Places To Find Jobs and Tell People You Got A Job

SEO MOZ has a jobs marketplace - search and social media positions, you can post and upload resumes.

There's a position over there now for Authority Domains for a Social Media Specialist - remote. To apply, click on the link and then click on the Apply Link.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualifications;

-3+ years work experience in… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on January 27, 2009 at 7:39pm — No Comments

Social media in the offline world

It's altogether too easy to slip into thinking your world is the same as everyone else's, but the reality, of course, is that humanity encompasses an infinite range of worlds. Online activity, for instance, so important to a large population, plays absolutely no part in most people's lives, still. The internet's so accessible and full of opportunity that it's hard to believe not everyone is doing it. Truth is, very few of us have actually lived and breathed it; very few are firmly… Continue

Added by Mary H. Ruth on January 27, 2009 at 6:10pm — 4 Comments

Interview With Chris Rottler On His New Social Media Job

Chris Rottler applied to a position he found on the JobsinSocialMedia job board, and he's now a digital strategist at a PR Firm. So one, if you're a company looking to hire, it's the {ahem} blue box to your right, and two, if you're a candidate, hopefully these answers shed some light on what companies are doing. Congratulations, Chris.

1. You were hired from an ad here on JSM. What was the process… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on January 18, 2009 at 10:44pm — No Comments

Do You Know the Difference Between Social Media Marketing & Traditional Marketing?

OK, tell the truth, what is the first thought that enters your mind when I say the word marketing? I’ll bet if you are honest you will say something like “used car salesman”. Most of us have this negative picture about marketing that conjures up words like shyster and charlatan maybe even snake oil salesman.

It’s not really fair you know because without marketing no one would ever know where to get the products and services they need. Even more important than that, there are lots of… Continue

Added by Lauren McMullen on January 15, 2009 at 5:52pm — 1 Comment

Business Development Partners Wanted

The Power Poole is looking for experienced business development partners with sales and marketing backgrounds who are visionary leaders already versed in the social networking world and at building relationships with customers and vendors.

We are in the process of developing city based social networking sites across the country and we are looking for one main go to person…

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Added by Ryan E. Poole on January 13, 2009 at 10:08pm — No Comments

Business vs. brand

Al Ries at Advertising Age:

"Building a business or building a brand? That's the most important question in marketing."

I'm thinking this pithy statement sums up all the confusion in our economy today. Through social media and the internet, because we're truly now global citizens, we are transitioning to an economy that is based in brand rather than in business. The vast majority, though, have no idea what this means.

If you spend all your time online, as I… Continue

Added by Mary H. Ruth on January 10, 2009 at 9:47am — 1 Comment

Ghost Blogging Still Isn't Cool, and It's Not Blogging

I differentiate writing from blogging, and one of the reasons corporations aren't trusted to blog is because they're simply pumping out information, and not actively engaging with the community. There is no way to effectively engage with a community if you're ghosting an account.

What happens when someone who thinks they are corresponding with an executive cites them on another blog? Calls into the company (which you do if you form a friendship with someone)? References a study and… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on January 9, 2009 at 1:03am — 2 Comments

Tweet Ideas: The Marketer's Guide to Twitter

I just finished this article on Twitter marketing. I appreciate your feedback- thanks!…

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Added by Michael Daehn on January 7, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Create Personas to Help You Focus on Your Target Audience

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Creating personas is a great way to get you thinking about your target audience and how you can build relationships

Calling you audience customers, visitors or users takes away from the reality that these are real people. When you look at the characteristics that make up your ideal customer, and start to think of them as…

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Added by Michael Daehn on January 7, 2009 at 9:09pm — 1 Comment

How to Keep Your Website on Top: The Website Creation Continuum

Great websites are continually honed to better serve your audience

Start by doing your research.

Personas- develop a picture of the ideal visitor for your site
Education- know everything you can about your market and the best web tools to reach…

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Added by Michael Daehn on January 6, 2009 at 8:43pm — 2 Comments

User Astu Banned to the Nether Regions

Several of you emailed me to complain about a blatant comment spammer, Astu. That profile has been removed.

If you get anything like this in the future, please contact me and I'll remove the offender.

Basic policy is this.

1) Clear comment spammers are simply deleted. I'm the sole judge, and there is no recourse.

2) Clueless comment spammers are a case by case basis. I'll usually email the person and see if they respond, and figure out if they are… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on January 3, 2009 at 7:23pm — 1 Comment

Jobs In Social Media Featured On The Ning Blog

Good news everybody - the official Ning blog (the platform JSM is built on) featured us today in a post on the site. They like what you've done with it (so do I), and we'll hopefully see an influx of new members.

If you see other sites mentioning us, be sure to let me know - shoot me a message through the site or forward it to socialmediaheadhunteratgmail.com

Happy New… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on December 31, 2008 at 8:19am — 1 Comment

Dr. Googlelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google

I used to look for alternatives, but I've learned to embrace the power and beauty that is Google

It is useless to resist, Google is best. I now look to use all Google products all the time. Here are a few reasons why I decided to join the Googleplex:

Search

Who ya gonna call? It may be Ghostbusters, but you're gonna use Google to find the number. Google's core…

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Added by Michael Daehn on December 28, 2008 at 8:44pm — 2 Comments

Launching the Purple People Collective

Last week, my business partner and I launched the Purple People Collective to help recently laid off tech workers find new gigs. Being an ex-Yahoo myself from the February layoffs, we were wondering what we could do to help when the last round hit just over a week ago. One of the things that I wanted when I got laid off was a place where we could band together to make it known to recruiters, hiring managers, and people looking for freelancers that… Continue

Added by Ryan on December 22, 2008 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Getting Started in Social Media Content Development and Community Management

Recently there has been some discussion of getting started in social media. I think there seem to be three varieties of people's tales in social media:

1) they've been involved in technology, interactive, or design for a year or more (sometimes less: Brian Garner taught himself how to design on Wordpress in about 6 months and is now at the… Continue

Added by Nathan Ketsdever on December 20, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Considering a Content Manager Role? Top 5 Skills You Should Have

As more companies are realizing the value of content marketing and blogging, they are also realizing the benefit of having a full-time content manager on staff. Content managers can not only write and edit content; but develop the strategies and processes involved in a full-fledged content marketing plan.

Because many companies aren't quite familiar with the tasks and overall nature of a content manager role, I've recently written a blog post outlining the top 5 skills that companies… Continue

Added by Kari Rippetoe on December 18, 2008 at 12:08pm — 4 Comments

5 Reasons Why Twitter Will Survive

I wrote this article a few months back, but it seems to be holding true ;)

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Some are skeptical, but I think Twitter will be around for a while

If you aren't on Twitter it is hard to explain. It really needs to be experienced. If you are on Twitter I'm sure you have asked yourself how a site that is so simple… Continue

Added by Michael Daehn on December 17, 2008 at 10:06pm — 5 Comments

How To Kick The Recession In The Butt

There’s no hiding from it. Everywhere you go, you’re bound to hear someone talking about the recession and more specifically, the recent record breaking numbers of unemployment in the U.S. Yours truly wasn’t even recession proof - but there’s got to be some sort of light at the end of tunnel, right? Well, there’s no reason to wait until you get to the end of the tunnel. With the staggering number of people that are getting laid off, we all… Continue

Added by Sonny Gill on December 17, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments