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Job Opportunity: Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism at Oakland University

Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism at Oakland University

The Department of Communication and Journalism is seeking a visiting assistant professor in journalism for a non-tenure track appointment. This is a one-year contract beginning August 15, 2015. The teaching obligation will be introductory courses in public relations and journalism. The teaching load is three courses per semester. In addition, service to the department is required. To be considered, a candidate must hold a B.A. degree in communication, journalism, or related area and have multiple years of experience in their professional field, such as public relations, advertising, or journalism. Applicants will be expected to maintain exposure to current trends and facilitate their application to the curriculum. Applicants with graduate degrees in communication, journalism, or similar areas and experience teaching undergraduate courses are preferred.

To apply, please submit your letter of application, curriculum vitae or resume, cover letter and evidence of teaching philosophy, and contact information for three professional references electronically at: https://jobs.oakland.edu by July 15, 2015, for full consideration.

Inquiries should be directed to Mr. Garry Gilbert, Department of Communication and Journalism, Oakland University, 316 Wilson Hall, Rochester, MI 48309 or via email at:gjgilber@oakland.edu.

Oakland University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.

This institution offers benefits to same-sex and different sex domestic partners

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Journalism Job Opportunities: The Press of Atlantic City (Pleasantville, NJ)

The Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville, N.J., has several openings:
Designer/Copy Editor: Do you have a creative side? Capable of producing a variety of pages, from local to nation to sports, special sections, features pages or A1? Speed, accuracy and judgment are crucial, as is knowledge of QuarkXPress and/or InDesign. A college degree is required and at least two years’ experience in daily journalism is preferred. Send résumé and work samples to Kris Worrell,
kworrell@pressofac.com.
Reporter: You must be able to quickly adapt to a fast-paced operation and be capable of producing a variety of content: photos and videos, tweets, short updates for web, and print stories with deep context. A college degree is required. At least two years’ experience in daily journalism is preferred. Send résumé and work samples to Buzz Keough  wkeough@pressofac.com.
Senior Editor: Looking for a creative, flexible senior editor with strong news judgment, a collaborative approach, and big-picture thinking. You have a cool-headed, solutions-oriented attitude, seek possibilities not limitations and are a solid coach with a sense of humor. Help lead a team as they launch a new redesign in print and continue to push for audience growth online. If that sounds like a good match, send résumé and work samples to Buzz Keough,  wkeough@pressofac.com.
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Job Opportunity: Public Relations Specialist, Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department, Palm Beach, Fla.

Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department: Public Relations Specialist (Relocation Required)

Salary: $40,268 Annually
Department: Parks and Recreation/Public Information Services
Hours:  8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday – Friday; required to work occasional weekends or evening hours during special events and public outreach engagements.
Other:  Valid Florida Driver’s License and PBC Risk Management Department driving history approval prior to appointment.

DESCRIPTION:

  • Professional public communications work involving a variety of proactive public information programs
  • Coordinates various informational projects to maintain public awareness of the Parks and Recreation Department’s programs, needs, special projects and accomplishments
  • Gathers, writes and edits material to be presented through social and traditional media, websites, speaking engagements, special events and printed/electronic publications
  • Requires some independent judgment and initiative
  • Performs work under the direct supervision of the Manager of Public Information Services Division through conferences, periodic reports and evaluation of results achieved

The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners provides an excellent benefits package, including medical, dental and life insurance as well as vacation and sick leave, tuition reimbursement and participation in the Florida Retirement System.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English or related field; minimum of one (1) year of experience in public affairs or public relations work including publication writing.  Equivalency:  Related Associate’s Degree and three (3) years of related experience.

PREFERENCE FOR EXPERIENCE IN/WITH: Public speaking; media relations; marketing; social media; journalism; special event coordination; graphic design using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; web design using Adobe Dreamweaver (must specify on application).

HOW TO APPLY:
Visit www.pbcgov.jobs for job description and to apply online.  May submit scannable application/resume with any Veteran’s Preference documentation to Palm Beach County Human Resources, 100 Australian Avenue #300, West Palm Beach, Florida 33406  Info 561/616-6888  Fax 561/616-6893 (No e-mail applications/resumes accepted).  Applications/resumes must include Job ID number, and will be accepted no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 10, 2015.  EO/AA M/F/D/V (DFWP)

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The Wrap Up for June 28, 2015

Tools, Tips & Tricks

Industry Insights

Et cetera of interest

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Find of the Week: The Periodic Table of Wearables

apx-periodic-table-of-elements

Picture it: Grant Park, 2 p.m. at Octane Coffee. I am sitting down over tea and iced chai tea lattes, talking social media strategy when a client pulls this up on her laptop. As someone who enjoys rainbow colors (especially today in the United States), the periodic table, and wearable tech, I was excited.

APX Labs, creators of the chart, described it this way:

Our updated periodic table groups and defines the main capabilities that businesses are using today to build and harness a connected workforce.

Individually they are powerful, but when you combine them together they create solutions that are impossible to deliver in any other way.

Brian Ballard, the co-founder and CEO of APX Labs, goes into more detail about the different categories in a TechCrunch article. Some choice quotations from that piece:

We used the periodic table to extract a framework and put some organization around the huge surface of wearable technology. Each item in a color-coded group is related to each other in some important way, just like the real periodic table. Instead of atomic number and chemical properties, we use value-prop and underlying technologies. […]

One of the true differentiators between wearables and other traditional devices is their ability to operate in the real world, understanding location, capturing rich context and making decisions around all that. We’re finding new and novel uses for these wearable tech elements every day. It’s exciting to see how smart glasses, smartwatches and other peripherals are being used to change the practical, day-to-day activities of people in different industries.

What do you think about the periodic table? What ethics should users, practitioners, and creators think about when developing or using these technologies?

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Teaching Job Opportunity: Technical Communication Lecturer Position for 2015-16, Georgia Tech, Atlanta

Dear colleagues,

Please see the job announcement below for a teaching opportunity in an innovative team-taught tech comm/computer science course at Georgia Tech.

Questions can be directed to me (andy.frazee@lmc.gatech.edu) or Rebecca Burnett (rebecca.burnett@lmc.gatech.edu).

Many thanks,

Andy

Andy Frazee, PhD
Associate Director of Writing and Communication
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Georgia Institute of Technology
andy.frazee@lmc.gatech.edu

JOB POSTING: Technical Communication Lecturer Position for 2015-16

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Team teach with computer science faculty in year-long junior capstone classes of sections linking computer science and intro tech comm. Face-to-face and hybrid teaching related to client-based projects. Degree in tech comm or rhetoric preferred but comparable experience considered. Research opportunities. ABD applicants considered. Nine-month appointment with the equivalent of 3:3 load.

This position is within Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program, a unit of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and home of the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Writing and Communication Program oversees courses in first-year composition, research writing, and technical communication, all of which emphasize rhetoric, process, and multimodality. For more information, see http://wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu/ and http://lmc.gatech.edu/

Please submit letter of application, CV, teaching philosophy, and three letters of recommendation. Apply immediately to hiring@lmc.gatech.edu. Review of complete online submissions will begin July 10, 2015 for teaching in August 2015. The Georgia Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity employer whose academic core mission is based on the principles of inclusion, equity, diversity, and justice.

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The Wrap Up for June 21, 2015

Tools and Tips

Industry Insights

Et cetera of interest

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That new habit

Tseen Khoo's avatarThe Research Whisperer

The chasm of intercultural communications research? [Photo by Jeff Sheldon | unsplash.com] The chasm of intercultural communications research? [Photo by Jeff Sheldon | unsplash.com] For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to establish a new habit.

I wish I could tell you it was an exciting one, perhaps involving stacks of innovative, disruptive-thinking body-painting.

But it’s not.

It’s a habit for researchers that’s bog-standard and necessary. It’s something I need to stop thinking of as a chore.

I’m trying to read. 

I need to stop being scared of my burgeoning collection of articles that stare at me, unblinking, from Mendeley. At least they don’t teeter and threaten to avalanche anymore (as the hardcopies used to), but I’m certainly guilty of what Pat Thomson calls ‘PDF alibi syndrome‘: “Merely having and storing them is enough. I own, therefore I have read.”

There’s so much out there in blog and #acwri (academic writing) world about getting the words down; ‘write early, write often’; and getting ideas out…

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Find of the Week: Collaborative Economy Honeycomb

honeycomb_collab_econ

I tend to be “a day late and a dollar short” with many things in my life. Someone passed along this gem of a blog post via a tweet, and I added it to my favorites, promising that I would get to it eventually.

Eventually was yesterday, and now I am kicking myself. This honeycomb graphic is a visual snapshot of how the collaborative economy is organized. Jeremiah Owyang defined the collaborative economy as one that “enables people to efficiently get what they need from each other.” Each cluster outlines the companies within that sector and what services they offer. This is a clean, simple way to explore the technologies and services that many PR practitioners use and take advantage of.

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The Wrap Up for June 14, 2015

Tips and Tools 

A PR pro’s guide for Reddit via 6 A.M.

A PR pro’s guide to getting started with video via prTini

60 Twitter tools for PR and marketing pros via PR Daily

This is your brain on emojis. Here’s how to use them in marketing via Buffer

How to write like an I.D.I.O.T. via Spin Sucks (Intrigue, do, intend, operate, and train.)

Land Rover creates an interactive Instagram adventure via Fast Company

Think pieces about creativity, social media and public relations

What can a burger teach us about creativity? via GrubStreet

Journal article: Online authenticity, popularity, and the “Real Me” in a microblogging environment via Joon Soo Lim‘s Academia.edu

“Would I lie for you?” Ethics and morals in public relations via Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Crowdforcing: When what I “share” is yours via Uncomputing

Guess who doesn’t fit in at work via New York Times (about cultural fit in the workplace)

When done carefully, selecting new workers this way can make organizations more productive and profitable. But cultural fit has morphed into a far more nebulous and potentially dangerous concept. It has shifted from systematic analysis of who will thrive in a given workplace to snap judgments by managers about who they’d rather hang out with. In the process, fit has become a catchall used to justify hiring people who are similar to decision makers and rejecting people who are not.

Et cetra of interest

Black women’s lives don’t matter in academia either (or why I quit academic spaces that don’t value Black women’s life and labor) via The Feminist Wire

The whiteness of public radio via BuzzFeed

Disciplining black bodies: Racial stereotypes of cleanliness and sexuality via Notches Blog

A short documentary on Times New Roman