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Photobird.com, the easy way to share your photos, is looking for a digital photography enthusiast who wants to blog for a couple of hours 5 days a week. You must be an excellent writer and be able to write consistently in a fun and friendly voice. Most blog posts will be single paragraphs, but you may occasionally choose to write more.
You will be provided with a variety of source material, and you may use your own if it fits with the editorial direction of the blog. The goal is to initially focus on consumer level products and topics, with a small percentage of professional topics.
You must be dependable, responsible, and professional. This is a freelance, part-time job, for 2 to 3 hours a day, Monday through Friday. It may be possible to choose five different days, if you prefer.
This is a telecommuting position, in which you work from the comforts of your own location. While this is a freelance, part-time position to start, we are looking to build a long-term relationship with the right person and hope to turn the position into a full-time position in the future. There are also opportunities to expand the position with additional responsibilities.
To be considered for this position, you must provide writing samples, in the form of articles, forum posts, or blog posts that you have written. Your writing samples don't need to be photography related, although that's preferred obviously.
Responsibilities:
- Peruse source material daily
- Write blog posts for newsworthy items
- Work with Photobird staff to build solid, collaborative relationships with manufacturers
- Edit product images as necessary to make them suitable for publishing
- Participate in the testing phase of each update, making adjustments as necessary
- Work closely in a small team to update the blog on a daily basis
Requirements:
- Excellent attention to quality and detail
- Very reliable, responsible, and can effectively manage his/her own time to meet deadlines
- Takes pride in completing high-quality work on time, on a consistent basis
- Knows how to prioritize responsibilities to meet the needs of customers and the business
- Excellent, effective written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ability and proven experience writing concise, well-written materials in a fun and friendly voice
- Passion for working on and contributing to robust, cutting-edge, innovative web sites that turn heads, generate excitement, and attracts millions of monthly visitors
- Solid problem solving skills
- Ability and desire to learn quickly
- Ability and desire to make things right, the way they should be, to achieve our goals
- Ability to focus on, relate to, and respond appropriately to customer issues and errors
- Ability to perform well in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Experience with digital cameras
- Strong interest in photography
Ideal:
- Experience publishing content to websites or blogs
- Solid customer focus, working with people and resolving customer issues
- Enjoys taking photos and learning more about how to improve photography skills
- Ability to see "the big picture" to recommend process improvements
- Experience with FTP, online forums, and other internet and web technologies
- Experience editing basic HTML
- Interest in writing digital camera reviews
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Owns or has access to a digital camera
- International experience / influence
If you are interested, please send us your resume either as text or preferably as a link. Also, please answer the following questions in brief (at most, a few sentences to a paragraph for each):
1. What do you like about Photobird.com? What would you like to see improved?
2. What are some of your favorite blogs or websites? (Photography related or other.) Why do you like them?
3. What do you like about the Photobird Learning Center? What would you like to see improved?
4. What do you like about the Photobird Digital Camera Buyer's Guide? What would you like to see improved?
5. List some of Photobird's competitors.
Please also send links/URLs of samples of your written work.
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