{"id":1936,"date":"2011-03-28T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qwocboston.org\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:02:55","slug":"qwoc-boston-seeks-social-media-interns-for-summer-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"QWOC+ Boston Seeks Social Media Interns for Summer 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Social Media Marketing Internship (Summer 2011)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston) is currently seeking two (2) dynamic motivated interns interested in exploring a career in social media marketing. This unpaid internship requires a commitment of 15 hours per week in addition (including mandatory attendance at our weekly planning meetings), but offers a flexible schedule; hours can be worked primarily from home, at night, and on the weekends. <\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, this internship rocks. Check out what our last Social Media Intern had to say HERE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Qualifications of the Idea Candidate:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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  • You are a high school, undergraduate or graduate student<\/span><\/li>\n
  • You are a member or active ally to the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LBGTQI) community<\/span><\/li>\n
  • You have excellent writing and communication skills — you can crank out a newsletter AND hold your own in a meeting<\/span><\/li>\n
  • You possess hands-on experience with popular social media applications like Twitter, Digg, Facebook, and YouTube<\/span><\/li>\n
  • You have at least a basic understanding of blogging tools like WordPress, Blogspot, or Drupal<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Your attention to details is almost supernatural<\/span><\/li>\n
  • You are passionate about social justice and have several organizational affiliations and committees to show for it!<\/span><\/li>\n
  • You enjoy working within a team, but cherish your very own mini-projects<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Did you nod your head at most (or all) of the statements above? If so, then we’d LOVE to consider you for one of our summer social media internships! <\/span><\/p>\n

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    What You Will Accomplish This Summer:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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    • You will provide marketing support for our 3rd annual QWOC Week, a week-long festival that involves the concepting, planning, coordination, and execution of at least ten community-building events <\/span><\/li>\n
    • You will learn the basics of email marketing via your contribution (draft and technical support) of our bi-weekly newsletters<\/span><\/li>\n
    • You will brainstorm your very own ideas for leveraging social media to create social change — yes, we’ll give you your very own project\/event to plan<\/span><\/li>\n
    • You will author blog posts and reblog relevant media articles<\/span><\/li>\n
    • You will post frequent tweets and master the art of engaging users via Twitter<\/span><\/li>\n
    • You will learn to identify potential PR opportunities<\/span><\/li>\n
    • You will work within the steering committee to explore ways in which we might engage our user community both within our existing sites and on external social media platforms<\/span><\/li>\n
    • You WILL have so much fun, and be able to talk about it on your resume. [If you do a great job] You will earn at least one solid letter of recommendation! <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Compensation:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • UNPAID internship<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Academic Credit<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Official Letter of Recommendation<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Complimentary Event Tickets<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Cool Points<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        If you’re interested, please send your resume to adaora at qwocboston dot org. Include the following info in the body of the email (or we won’t read\/respond to your application):<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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        • First and Last Name<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Name of Institution<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Contact Info (Email and Phone Number)<\/span><\/li>\n
        • How did you hear about this internship opportunity?<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Do you blog? Give us your website.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Do you tweet? List your Twitter handle.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • What social justice cause are you <\/span>most <\/span><\/em>concerned about? Is it different from the one you donate most of your time\/money to? If so, tell us why. If not, well then tell us how your passion for this cause has translated to action (i.e. how do you support\/promote it?). <\/span>Please respond to this question in 5 sentences or less. This isn’t a college essay — we just wanna gauge your level of commitment<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston) is currently seeking two (2) dynamic motivated interns interested in exploring a career in social media marketing. This unpaid internship requires a commitment of 15 hours per week in addition (including mandatory attendance at our weekly planning meetings), but offers a flexible schedule; hours can be worked primarily from home, at night, and on the weekends. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,75],"tags":[213,248,311,435,532,538,566,601,624,667,808,851,928,966,1016],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-jobs-and-internships","category-work-with-us","tag-bisexual","tag-boston","tag-community-manager","tag-gay","tag-intern","tag-internship","tag-job","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbt","tag-marketing","tag-queer","tag-qwoc-boston","tag-social-media","tag-summer","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}