Note to GSU Public Relations Students: Please email me if you want to apply. There are additional instructions for the position.  Social Media Specialist-653106 NCR Corporation Duluth, GA About NCR: NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, turning everyday interactions with businesses into exceptional experiences. With its software, hardware, and portfolio of services, NCR enables more than 450 million transactions daily across the financial, retail, hospitality, travel, telecom and technology industries. NCR solutions run the everyday transactions that make your life easier. NCR is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia with over 29,000 employees and does business in 180 countries. NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries. NCR encourages investors to visit its web site which is updated regularly with financial and other important information about NCR. Summary of Job Description The Social Media Specialist will be responsible for evangelizing and implementing the corporate social media strategy across all areas of the company. He/she will be responsible for integrating social media tactics across all of NCR’s industry verticals with the goals of driving thought leadership and engagement. He/she will work closely with lines of business social liaisons, the communications team, HR and talent acquisition to support initiatives and uphold standards throughout platforms. Key Areas of Responsibility • Assist in the tactics implementation of a coordinated, enterprise-wide social media plan for the various NCR lines of business to align with their inbound marketing strategies • Assist in evaluating, planning, organizing, managing, monitoring and contributing to core NCR social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube to reach company targets and objectives via Sysomos Heartbeat, Hootsuite and native channels. • Assist in governing social media channels across lines of business and global regions. • Maintain the content calendar for NCR’s corporate social channels and attend monthly meetings with the design team and blog contributors. • Track and collect relevant social media metrics and ensure timely, effective and efficient reporting of all social media efforts. Assist in analysis and action planning with Social Media Operations Manager. • Assist in the development and ongoing training, support, and education to NCR’s social media contributors regarding the chosen social media management tool. • Experiment with new and alternative ways to leverage social media activities. • Monitor, identify, and interpret trends in social media and make recommendations to enhance social program. • Assist in educating employees on how to incorporate relevant social media techniques into both corporate culture and marketing efforts. Basic Skills/Experience Requirements • Bachelor’s degree required • Minimum 2-4 years demonstrated experience in online and social media marketing • Proven active involvement in social media activities such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn groups, RSS feeds, etc. (must have verifiable online presence) • Outstanding project management and organizational skills. Must be detail-oriented. • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Familiarity with SEO and Google Analytics • Familiarity with WordPress CMS • Proven proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Photoshop a plus. • Must be both an independent worker capable of taking ownership of projects and meeting tight deadlines with moderate supervision, and a team player willing to compromise and take direction **Visit our careers site (http://www.ncr.com/careers) for a list of the benefits offered in your region in addition to a competitive base salary and strong work/family programs. Statement to Third Party Agencies To ALL recruitment agencies: NCR only accepts resumes from agencies on the NCR preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, NCR employees, or any NCR facility. NCR is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes. EEO Statement NCR is an equal opportunity employer. It is NCR’s policy to hire, train, promote and pay associates based on their job-related qualifications, ability and performance, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or veteran status. Job : Marketing Primary Location : North America-United States-Georgia-Duluth Schedule : Full-time Job Posting : Mar 9, 2015, 12:00:00 AM

Digital Campaigns Organizer 

Corporate Accountability International, a powerhouse in challenging corporate abuse for more than 35 years, is seeking a Digital Campaigns Organizer to manage the organization’s growing email advocacy and acquisition program, as well as its web and social media presence. As the Digital Campaigns Organizer, you will work closely with our talented campaign organizers and development staff to generate grassroots action from activists in each of our campaigns areas and to drive online fundraising.

Corporate Accountability International’s online program has been instrumental in challenging egregious and life-threatening abuses, specifically in the food, water, and tobacco industries. As the Digital Campaigns Organizer, you will play a key role in increasing the impact of these campaigns by mobilizing our online activists and winning key victories. Most recently, the organization partnered with allies and members across the world to generate grassroots action to halt the corporate-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership, often referred to as “NAFTA on steroids.” We also worked with allies and grassroots activists to stop a landmark water privatization contract in St. Louis that would have allowed the water giant Veolia to profit off of the city’s public water system.

As the Digital Campaigns Organizer, you will report directly to the Online Director and work closely with staff across the organization, including the Communications Director and Membership Manager. The organization is made up of over 60 smart and driven staff and interns working in a fast-paced and fun working environment with a network of members and allies across the world.

Major Responsibilities:

• Organize and implement Corporate Accountability International’s email advocacy and fundraising program.
• Coordinate with organizing staff to increase campaign impact and money raised through online organizing strategies.
• Implement list growth acquisition strategies.
• Manage our email CRM to load, segment, and send email blasts.
• Manage organizational social media strategy and grow the organization’s impact on social media, training key staff on best social media practices.
• Ensure the website is regularly updated with fresh content and troubleshoot technical problems with the website as they arise.
• Stay informed on emerging online technologies through relevant blogs, listservs, trainings, and conferences, implementing best practices for the online program.
• Track, report, and analyze all metrics, using data to inform site and email performance.
• Draft and edit online content across platforms – email, web, blog, and social media.
• Recruit and manage a communications intern.
• Participate in organization-wide planning, fundraising, and campaign activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and progressive social change.
• At least two years of experience in non-profit digital or communications work and/or grassroots organizing.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Experience with CRM’s and CMS’s, ideally including Salsa, Raisers Edge, Drupal, and Salesforce.
• Experience developing and executing data-driven online engagement and fundraising plans.
• Demonstrated experience executing a strategic social media engagement strategy.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, and CSS. Javascript a plus.
• Solid project management skills.

Salary and benefits: Commensurate with experience, with a generous benefits package including health, dental, FSA, 401 (k), ongoing training, and growth opportunities. Upbeat, collaborative, and goal-oriented office atmosphere.

Location: Campaign Headquarters- Boston, MA

To Apply: Visit www. stopcorporateabuse.org/ employment-opportunities. Attach your résumé to the online application, and include a cover letter, a short writing sample, and a list of three to five references. Please include where you heard about the position. If you are having trouble uploading, please email your materials to Sarah Bennett at jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org

Corporate Accountability International is an equal opportunity employer and an inclusive organization. People of color, women, and LGBTQ people are strongly encouraged to apply. For more than 35 years, Corporate Accountability International has successfully challenged corporations like Nestlé, General Electric, and Philip Morris to halt abusive practices that threaten human rights, public health, the environment and our democracy. The organization is expanding—and leading campaigns challenging some of the world’s most powerful industries in food and agriculture, water and tobacco.

Senior Writer/Editor, GRACE Communications Foundation

GRACE Communications Foundation develops innovative strategies to increase public awareness of the critical environmental and public health issues created by our current food, water and energy systems, and to promote a more sustainable future.

GRACE is currently seeking a Senior Writer/Editor to work with our Communications Department to support the foundation’s programs through the development, management and execution of content and communication strategies for discrete projects and campaigns as well as ongoing program work. The Senior Writer/Editor will help manage production of blog posts, articles, newsletters and more, and edit said content for easy read- and search-ability. This full-time position reports to the Communications Director.

In addition, the Senior Writer/Editor will:

• Edit new content across GCF properties, (with guidance/support from directors) including:
• Monthly and weekly newsletters,
• Articles (blog posts),
• Media outreach materials such as press releases,
• Evergreen content including landing and issue pages, one-pagers, etc.,
• Print collateral including brochures and handouts and
• Content for other publications, including multimedia and LTEs.
• Aid in the maintenance of a comprehensive editorial calendar for the organization, and keep content production in line with the calendar (working with the communications manager, who leads this process).
• Collaborate with program staff to manage content audits of existing content.
• Continue to review and edit top-trafficked pages.
• Track and respond (or, with appropriate staff, coordinate response) to comments on the site.
• Support staff production of video and audio content.
• Work with the communications team to initiate and maintain high-level media partnerships.
• Other programmatic work, as needed.
• The Senior Writer/Editor must have a clear understanding of environmental issues around food, water and energy systems, and demonstrated expertise in writing and editing.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills & qualifications:

• BA or BS in environmental science, food and agriculture or communications. MA preferred.
• Ability to break down academic and technical information into easily understood, editorial-style writing.
• Solid writing and editing skills, and strategic understanding of writing for multiple platforms but especially the web.
• Working knowledge of/experience with Search Engine Optimization.
• Experience with CMS, especially Word Press.
• Solid grasp of environmental issues around food, water and energy.
• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of professional writing/editing experience.
• Sound judgment and the ability to quickly come to understand the foundation’s positions on a range of issues and identify issues that require input from foundation leadership.
• A plus: basic photography/photo editing skills.
• Strong qualitative/quantitative research skills.
• Flexibility to travel in performance of duties.

How to apply

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resumé, with desired compensation tojobs@gracelinks.org referencing “Social Media/Communications Coordinator” in the subject line. Candidates should also include links to social profiles they have managed.

GRACE Communications Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates, regardless of race, gender, age or sexual orientation are encouraged to apply.

We offer excellent benefits, and compensation is commensurate with experience.

Applications will be accepted until May 1, 2015.

No phone calls, please.

To learn more about us, go to www.gracelinks.org

Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau

Job Title: Public Relations Intern

Direct Report: Manager, public relations

Supports: Director, public relations

Specialist, public relations

Coordinator, public relations

Compensation: $10/hour

Time period: Eight weeks during summer

• 20 hours/week maximum
• Morning hours, 5 days/week preferred

Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) is the liaison between meeting planners, tour operators and its nearly 850 member organizations. ACVB positions Atlanta as the leading destination for conventions and tourism through sales and marketing programs, supporting Atlanta’s $13 billion hospitality industry, 230,000 jobs for metro Atlantans and 45 million visitors each year. ACVB is seeking a public relations intern for summer to assist the public relations team in marketing metro Atlanta to local, domestic and international media.

What can I learn from this internship?

Interns at ACVB are able to dive into legitimate, portfolio-building public relations projects – this isn’t an internship for coffee-fetching and lunch runs. ACVB’s public relations intern is an integral member of the department and is therefore able to gain practical experience.

Reporting to the department’s public relations manager, interns will gain a better understanding of the basic day-to-day tasks that make up a public relations position and how the hospitality industry works as a whole. ACVB interns are encouraged to attend industry events and openings to network with hospitality professionals and build relationships.

• Internship candidates must be a recent graduate or enrolled in undergraduate or graduate level
• Internship candidates should hold or be working toward a major in public relations, journalism or mass communications.
• Candidates must have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Candidates must have a proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• We prefer candidates who are self-starters, have strong organizational skills and are enthusiastic about gaining hands-on experience in public relations and hospitality.

What are intern responsibilities?

They include, but are not limited to the following:

• Maintaining press materials and clip files
• Writing and editing of press releases and other press materials
• Assisting with press tours and events
• Attending industry events and openings
• Researching the latest industry trends and issues for key internal communications
• Responding to media requests under guidance and supervision

To apply, please send resume with cover letter to:

Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau

Heather Kirksey — Manager, Public Relations at hkirksey(at)atlanta(dot)net

The Wrap Up is my round-up of items about management, diversity and inclusion, public relations, and any other ephemera floating around the web. These links should inspire, provoke, interrogate, and challenge. At the least, you will get a laugh or make you curse. My link list, like Walt Whitman, contain multitudes.

Today is National Libraries Day in the United Kingdom. Laura Ingalls Wilder‘s birthday is today, and she’s the Google Doodle of the day. Celebrate your library by going to pick up a copy of Little House on the Prairie.

Bloomberg: Harvard told its professors to stop sleeping with undergraduate students. No one asked why graduate students weren’t included in that headline, but they are covered in the prohibition dictate. Profs are banned from having amorous and lusty relations with grad students under their supervision.

Fast Company: The Harry Potter Alliance turns fantasy into action. From the post:

Wizard fans learn that their love of fantasy can translate into real world good, with help from the Harry Potter Alliance, a nonprofit that uses Harry Potter fandom to get kids interested in real life issues.

“They get involved because they wanted to hang out with some people and geek out over Harry Potter,” says Lauren Bird, the Alliance’s communications director, “But now they’re becoming a community leader.”

i100/Independent: Coca-Cola drops campaign after being tricked into tweeting Mein Kampf. Whoa, this is brandjacking and hashtag jacking at its finest.

Coke’s official account tweeted a series of images, including a smiling burger, containing secret race hate messages at @MeinCoke, before realising what had happened and deleting all of them.

Harvard Business Review: A few takeaways from this post on what to do when a colleague comes out as transgender

1. Chill. Keep your reactions to a minimum.
2. Watch and listen to your colleagues’ responses.
3. Check your pronoun usage.
4. Above all, do your research.

I would like to add “Don’t be an ass” to that list as well.

NPR: A cool data visualization of Census data. What are the most common job in your state? What was the most common job? In 1978 Georgia, the most common job was a secretary. Now, it is truck and delivery drivers. The Grist notes that farmers were slowly erased from the common job category, and that’s a scary thing to think about.

Newsweek: Unpaid internships are a hot topic in many circles. Some cling to the idea that students need to knuckle up and gain experience. Others think that student labor deserves to be compensated. Sirius is now facing a class action lawsuit about its unpaid internship practices.

Her suit cited the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which the Labor Department clarifies with a six-point test to determine if an internship may legally be unpaid. Such a gig, for instance, “is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment” and doesn’t displace paid employees. The complaint was clear: Sirius “wrongfully classified [Tierney] and others similarly situated” as unpaid interns in order to deny them wages.

The article lists several media companies that have been through or are going through unpaid internship legal woes. Read and learn.

The Daily Beast: And you thought your company’s social media policy had too many layers and checks and balance. The New York Police Department lets detectives catfish people, but you first have to clear the approval and clearance chain of command and get permission written on official letterhead.

 

PR/Communications Internship at CARE

WHAT: CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, is looking for a PR/communications

intern to work on site at least 15 hours a week.

WHAT WILL YOU DO: Specific tasks include media monitoring and media list development (using a web-

based system for both) as well as the opportunity for media outreach around CARE’s campaigns and

events. You’ll produce a monthly report of media hits and score those hits for message accuracy and

other key metrics.

EXTRA PERKS: You will work with a small-but-mighty communications team led by recovering reporters.

You’ll do your part in literally changing the world: Last year, CARE reached 83 million people around the

world with poverty-fighting programs. We’re located downtown (151 Ellis St.) and offer free parking.

WHO I REALLY WANT: Students that have a natural interest in media and communications. Do you have

more than two news apps on your phone? Can you name at least three news (local and national)

anchors? Apply.

DOES IT PAY? Yes ($10 an hour) AND my interns have gone on to jobs at PR agencies (both global and

local) as well as entry-level marketing positions.

WHEN: This is a little up in the air. My current intern (a December graduate of GSU) can stay until

August but if she lands a full time job before then I’ll need a replacement. I’m exploring candidates now

so I’ll be prepared either way. End date is negotiable but if it’s working for us both, you can stay for up

to a year.

INTERESTED? Two steps. 1. Learn more about CARE at care.org. 2. Email your resume and brief cover

letter to nharris@care.org.

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PARTICIPATORY CULTURE:  FANDOM, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

 

We invite submissions of chapter proposals for Public Relations and Participatory Culture:  Fandom, Social Media, and Community Engagement.  This edited volume, to be published by Routledge in 2015, will examine the relationships and interactions between fans and organizational public relations efforts.

 

The purpose of this volume is to integrate stakeholder and publics theories with those of participatory cultures and media studies/fan perspectives, and to add new, fresh insight into the public relations discipline’s concept of publics and segmentation.  The chapters selected for inclusion in this volume will explore challenges, opportunities, and the diversity of fan activity and relationships from a variety of perspectives, including international and intercultural.  The situations analyzed will also reflect the diversity of PR situations that involve fan-publics, i.e. not limited to entertainment products.   These chapters will help to answer the question:  How, as practitioners, can we create meaningful, ethical, and mutually-beneficial relationships between brands/organizations and fans?

 

We welcome submissions from educators and practitioner on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to):

•       Power, co-creation, messages, and fans
•       Application of PR theories to audience studies
•       Connecting fan research and fan studies theories to the segmentation of publics
•       Participatory culture, transmedia, and engagement/active publics
•       Community management, social media, and fan publics
•       Brand community management
•       Fan resistance
•       New models for segmenting engaged publics
•       Researching online fan-brand communities
•       Circuit of culture and segmentation of fans and publics
•       Crowdsourcing, crowd-funding, and activating publics

 

Scholars and practitioners interested in submitting chapter proposals should include a 250-word abstract and a one-page outline of your proposed chapter to co-editor Amber Hutchins at ahutch13@kennesaw.edu.  Chapter proposals are due no later than September 1, 2014.

 

Questions can be directed to coeditors Amber L. Hutchins, Kennesaw State University (ahutch13@kennesaw.edu) or Natalie Tindall, Georgia State University (drnatalietjtindall@gmail.com)

 

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Dr. Amber Hutchins

Public Relations Program Director

Department of Communication

Kennesaw State University

ahutch13@kennesaw.edu

@amberhutchins

770.794.7749

 

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