Hey Current And Former Mods !!! - Al Gore Has A Job For You !!!

[WillyT]

Seriously... in San francisco. For Current TV!!!

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Department
Online

Position
Online Community Manager

Location
San Francisco

Description
The Online Community Manager will report to the Director of Current TV's Online Community and assist in all functions related to community messaging, retention and moderation with some email and screening support.

Responsibilities
1) Community messaging - Develop messaging to the Current TV community in the form of web site text, blog entries and a weekly newsletter - 30%
Posting on the Current blog, messaging policy changes and company announcements as well as general community building posts
Updating site FAQs, editing site text and email text
Writing and sending the weekly newsletter

2) Community retention strategy - 30%
Working with the director to develop and implement strategies designed to retain website users, resulting in more time spent on the site and higher number of registrations

3) Community Moderation - 20%
Responding to abuse flags
Participating on message boards, keeping conversations going, answering questions

4) Screening - Goal is to do preliminary community standards and format screening for all content
uploaded to Current TV - 10%
Watching video uploads to ensure they are in our format and follow our community standards
Accepting or rejecting video for the Current TV website

5) Email support - 10%
Answer all questions/refer community members to appropriate answers in our FAQ
Forward all relevant email to appropriate people within the company
Compile and forward all feedback email for senior executives
Work with counterpart at VideoEgg to respond to technical support issues related to uploading
Work with our web team to respond to support issues related to the Website

Skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Computer skills including word processing, data entry
Must be passionate about the web, our demographic and building community
2-3 years previous work experience, ideally in a media company
Bachelor's degree

PREFERRED
Experience as an online community moderator

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Link: http://www.current.tv/jobs/jobDetails.htm?id=15655203

Other job opportunities at Current TV: http://www.current.tv/jobs

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[Heidi]

1. Kick.

:kick:

[senseandsensibility]

2. I would think that we have many qualified people here at DU

Thousands, even. And it sounds like a dream job. But San Francisco is one of the most expensive places to live on earth. And it sounds like you have to live there, right?

[WillyT]

3. I Just Mentioned Mods Because It Was Under "Preferred Experience" !!!

But you are correct, there are many qualified people here at DU.

You are also correct, that it is expensive as hell to live in S.F.

But one could commute, and we do have many a Bay Area DUer, and it does not say whether or not you can tele-commute to this job. You'd think that they would allow that, at least part of the time, because that would be a Green solution, and earn ya some Carbon credits right there, LOL!

A phone call about that and salary, might just clear that up.

:hi:

[senseandsensibility]

4. Exactly

I hope someone from DU gets the job, so lets keep this kicked. Unfortunately, I'm probably the least tech-savvy person here, so I won't go for it myself. Still, I can take pride in the accomplishments of my fellow DUers.

[newyawker99]

5. kick

:kick:

[WillyT]

6. And Another !!!

:kick:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. Thanks Willy!

[janx]

8. kickeroo!

[lies and propaganda]

9. absolutely radical!!!!!!!!

Current rules SO hard!

[proud patriot]

10. kick

:think: sounds great ..but I've done it for money ...but but I'm a pre school teacher ..

Wow ! can you imagine ? :wow:

[WillyT]

11. Hey Beautiful !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[proud patriot]

12. Hi Handsome

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[WillyT]

13. LOL !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[Lisa]

14. well-spotted!

Too late to rec, so I'll give this a bump instead.

[WillyT]

15. Thank You Lisa !!! - I Sometimes Wonder How We Could Organize A DU Job Fair...

I haven't looked around in too much depth, but I've seen jobs for progressives at Media Matters, TPMMuckraker, and now Current TV!

I'm sure that if we went digging, we'd find many more.

And although many here have jobs they love, or at the very least, would not wanna give up...

What a great Job Fair it would be if we could amass a whole bunch of jobs that allowed those looking for a change (let alone employment) into an arena that fits them naturally.

In anywho, It would be a wonderful thing if every 3 months or so, every DUer would scan both locally and nationally for progressive jobs that might just do us all a world of good.

Or am I dreaming right now?

:shrug: