Editorial Intern for Online Social Shopping Community (sunnyvale)

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Date: 2009-03-10, 1:25PM PDT


Kaboodle (www.kaboodle.com), the largest and fastest-growing online social shopping community, is looking for an Editorial Intern to join our team to assist the editorial department with content creation. This is a terrific opportunity for a current Journalism or English major to gain hands-on editorial and online media experience. If you are an aspiring online editor looking to gain experience in a fun, collaborative, team setting, we want to hear from you.

Please submit your resume and cover letter along with a brief writing sample (around 100 words) as well as links to any blogs you maintain.

Position Duties:

- Assist the editorial team with creation and execution of blog posts to Kaboodle blogs
- Help with creation and maintenance of other editorial content around the site, including featured products, shopping and gift guides, photos, and styleboard collages
- Help create and maintain a PR contact database
- Research as needed

Qualifications:

- Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Journalism or English
- Strong interest in Web 2.0, social networking, and blogging
- Strong knowledge of and interest in fashion publications, designers, and trends
- Knowledge and active participation in social websites
- Strong PC skills with an aptitude for Excel, Word, and Photoshop
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to write, edit, and post content to the web
- Basic knowledge of HTML
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- A friendly, outgoing, and energetic personality

Position Details:

Hours: 30-40 hours/week
Start Date: March 2009
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Compensation: $10-12, dependent upon experience

About Kaboodle:

Kaboodle is a social shopping community where people discover, recommend and share products. Kaboodle's powerful shopping tools allow people to organize their shopping through lists, discover new things from people with similar style, get discounts on popular products, and find best prices. At the heart of Kaboodle is a fun and engaging community of people who love to shop. Community members create and join groups, personalize their profiles with polls and other widgets, and share advice, feedback and product suggestions. Kaboodle was launched in 2006 and has 900,000 registered users and 12 million monthly visitors.

In August 2007, Kaboodle was acquired by Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com), which is one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies with interests in magazines, newspapers, digital media, business media and television.

We offer a fun, exciting and challenging work atmosphere. You should enjoy working in the highly collaborative team setting of this firm, which still operates like a fast-paced startup.

Principals only. Unsolicited resumes sent by recruiting agencies become the company’s property and no fees will be paid.


posted by julia woo 3-12-09