WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T Inc. is pledging to bring 5,000 wireless call center jobs, currently based abroad, back to the U.S. if it is allowed to proceed with its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
The company is also promising that the merger would not result in any job losses for AT&T and T-Mobile USA wireless call center employees who are on the payroll in the U.S. when the deal closes.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has attacked the British education system, saying a failure to appreciate the importance of computer science was holding the country back in the digital age.
In a lecture at a broadcasting conference in Edinburgh on Friday, the chairman of the Internet giant accused Britons of “throwing away your great computing heritage” by promoting a separation of arts and sciences in education.
San Francisco Health Tech is looking for a Blog Network and Content Services Manager:
Product Management Team
Opportunity
Is Web 2.0 more than a buzz word for you? Is operating in the blogosphere second nature? Are wikis your preferred mode of collaborative communication? Do you get your news from RSS feeds? Are you excited about the flexibility of working with XML? Do you daydream about the promise of the semantic Web? And are you keen to manage the business and monetization of these technologies? If so, this is the job for you!
The Blog Network and Content Services Manager works from our San Francisco office and is responsible for overseeing Healthline’s blog network and for assisting the Director of Content Services in managing the identification, acquisition, review, search engine optimization, and publishing on the Web of high-value content (original, repurposed, and licensed) aimed at a health consumer-oriented audience. This individual will work closely with the Product, Engineering, Medical Informatics, and Marketing teams. This is not a remote position.
Healthline is located in San Francisco, one block from Cal Train and the ballpark. The company is growing fast and looking for talented individuals who will grow with us.
Responsibilities
- Manage network of freelance bloggers, medical editors, and reviewers
- Oversee implementation of new content into the Healthline online platform
- Provide regular reporting of search, traffic, and revenue statistics; perform business analysis of these figures, including taking soft P&L responsibility for the blog network and other projects
- Assist the Web designers with user interface research and improvements
- Contribute to analysis of new content opportunities
- Help in assessment of consumer patterns and needs; perform gap analysesRequirements
- Experience in Web production environment with HTML, XML, and rich-media content systems
- Significant Web publishing experience, especially exposure to Web 2.0 tools and communities (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, etc.)
- Knowledge of the blogosphere—especially the medical blogosphere
- Substantial experience with MS Excel
- Knowledge of Web statistics and analysis
- Understanding of Web design and content management systems; knowledge of AJAX a plus
- Understanding of search engine optimization
- Understanding of databases, content classification, and categorization (taxonomies and ontologies)
- Project management experience highly desired
- Business analyst background a plus
- Familiarity with medical or health content and content providers desiredSkills/Education
- BA or BS degree and 3-5 years experience in content management
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral
- Ability to handle several projects simultaneously; set and meet deadlines
- Good research and evaluation skills
- Solid business sense
- Facility with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Analytical and problem-solving skillsAbout Healthline
Healthline Networks offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of today’s health information seeker. The company’s unique consumer healthcare taxonomy, created in 1999 in collaboration with 1,100 medical specialists, powers a suite of intelligent health search, navigation and content services. Combining advanced search technology with deep medical expertise, Healthline and its business partners – a network of trusted destination sites that include publishers, portals, search engines, employers and health plans – help consumers navigate the complex world of healthcare information, empowering them to make more confident, informed decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments, LLC.
Please send your resume and complete cover letter to careers@healthline.com. Join a great, growing company.
Job hunters can e-mail their application here.
Actual post can be found here.
b5media is looking for anEntrepreneur/Startup Blogger:
** The Blog**
Startup Spark is an established blog on entrepreneurship and startups in
the b5media Business Channel. It has a steady traffic stream, has been
featured on digg multiple times, and has many subscribers. The blog has
close to 150 posts and a Technorati link of about 6,000. The blog has
grown every month since it was launched and is doing extremely well.**The Blogger**
The blogger should be both an experienced blogger and entrepreneur
and/or startup executive. We are looking for someone who can continue to
help grow and promote this terrific blog. You do not have to be an award
winning writer, but we are seeking someone who can write well. Someone
who has had experience working with and for startups and the like is
ideal. The blogger would be expected to be to write a minimum of 5 posts
per week, network with other bloggers, and keep the momentum going on
Startup Spark. This is a paid position (base pay + traffic bonus).Please send a summary of your experience and qualifications as both a blogger and an entrepreneur to doug [at] b5media [dot] com (make the appropriate replacements). Please make your subject “Startup Spark Application”. Be sure to include URLs to relevant posts you have written/writing samples and a summary of your experience as an entrepreneur and/or startup executive.
Applicants can send their updated resume here.
Content Quake is looking for a blogger to write on a new weblog about Job Hunting and Resume Advice/Tips. This site will cover the best online tools for job hunting and resume tips. The ideal candidate will need to be familiar with sites like Monster, Career Builder and Linkedin. Resume building experience is also a plus.
WordPress experience is a plus. Image editing and copy-writing experience is a plus.
Interested job seekers can apply here.
