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Job: Junior Social Media Specialist in Portland, ME
LibraryThing is hiring a full-time Junior Social Media Specialist. We’re looking for someone who is bookish, local (Portland, ME area), and social media-savvy. You’d be working closely with Loranne, our Member Support and Social Media Librarian, here at LTHQ in Portland.
You must:
- Live in or near Portland, ME
- Love books
- Love people, at least sometimes
- Be familiar with social media, and bookish social media
- Write and edit well and quickly
- Work both independently and under direction
- Be hard-working, organized, and detail-oriented enough to remember to title your job application email “[Name]: Job Application”
- Be aware of What Makes LibraryThing LibraryThing
We’ll pick smarts, affability and drive over any skill. But our ideal candidate would have:
- Book-world experience
- Professional social media experience
- Technical skills (HTML, CSS, SQL)
- LibraryThing membership/familiarity
Your duties include:
- Help members with problems via email, Talk and social media
- Help write our monthly newsletters, blog posts, tweets, and Facebook posts
- Help developers to develop and test new features and projects
- Be an active presence on the site
- Manage incoming/outgoing mail, and some general office management tasks
Compensation:
Experience-appropriate salary with gold-plated health and dental insurance. We require hard work, but we are flexible about hours, and–so long as you are in the area–where you work from.
How to apply:
Send your resume (in PDF format, please) to loranne@librarything.com. Your email should be your cover letter.
Fine Print:
Per our Privacy Policy, LibraryThing is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of religion, race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy status, parental status, marital status, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Labels: employment, hiring, jobs
LibraryThing is Hiring: Bookish and Social-Media Savvy?
This could be you! (clockwise: ChrisC, Kate, Abby, Tim, Mike, ChrisH; unpictured Seth, KJ, Jeremy.)
This could be you too, and wouldn’t that be great?
(photo by member Bluesky1963)
LibraryThing is hiring(1) a full-time, bookish, social-media savvy employee. We want someone who lives and breathes books, and would jump at the chance to talk to book lovers, authors, publishers and librarians.(2)
This is an anywhere position, but we will favor Portland, Maine people. If you live elsewhere, you’ll be expected to spend time in Portland at the start of the job, and return on a regular basis.
You must:
- Love books
- Love people, or at least not hate them
- Be in tune with What Makes LibraryThing LibraryThing
- Be deeply familiar with social media and bookish social media
- Write well and quickly
- Be hard-working, optimistic, and detail-oriented
- Able to work and set goals independently
We’d like:
- A book-world background (librarian, bookseller, publishing, etc.)
- Professional social-media experience
- Technical skills (HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP, etc.)
- LibraryThing membership, familiarity
- Some useless expertise and passion, to fit in with the rest of the staff.
Duties:
- Write our newsletters, blog posts, tweets, and Facebook posts
- Coordinate our Early Reviewers program
- Assist members with problems
- Be an active presence on the site, well-known to members and participating in important LibraryThing discussions
- Suggest and help develop new features and projects
- Learn, analyze and look for new opportunities
Compensation: Salary plus gold-plated health and dental insurance. We require hard work, but we are flexible about hours.
How to apply: Resume [as a PDF file] is good. Don’t send one of those overboiled cover letters, sent as another damn Microsoft Word document titled “Cover Letter,” but a brief introduction would be good, recapitulating the bullets above and how they do or don’t fit you. Send emails to tim@librarything.com.(3)
1. Jeremy (member JBD1) is moving on and up; he’ll be the new Director of Communications and Outreach at Rare Book School in Charlottesville, VA. It’s a great move for Jeremy–he’s been going down there to help them run the summer sessions for four years now. He’ll continue as unofficial-but-unquestioned leader of the Legacy Libraries project. We’ll bid him a proper good-bye in a later blog post.
2. In another company this might be called a “social media manager” job, but we don’t “manage” our members, we talk to them. We don’t want fake, we want nice but genuine.
3. Please title the email “LTSOCMED [your name].” Also, follow directions–even the ones at the end of a blog post.
Labels: employees, employment, hiring, jeremy dibbell, jobs
Hiring: Customer support for LibraryThing for Libraries
LibraryThing is hiring again—a relatively junior full-time position, with room to grow. We’re looking for someone smart and organized to help out with the customer support side of LibraryThing for Libraries. The basic job is providing technical support to libraries using our products, but there’s also room to be doing smaller projects as well, such as performing QA testing on new features, creating informational screencasts, writing help and FAQ pages, and more.
Duties:
- Provide technical support to libraries using LibraryThing for Libraries and Library Anywhere (our mobile product)–help them through the installation process and answer questions
- Conduct QA testing
- Create how-to and marketing screencasts
- Conduct informational webinars
- Possibly attend trade shows
- Learn whatever we need you to learn
- Think creatively and suggest improvements
- Whatever else is needed. We are still a startup so all “duties” are fluid.
You must be:
- Organized as all get-out
- Able to write quickly and well
- Able to juggle multiple tasks efficiently and with humor
- Extremely comfortable with computers
- Able to work independently and communicate effectively with both customers and co-workers (over email, phone, and Skype)
We’d appreciate, but don’t require:
- A Library or Information Sciences Degree
- Experience in libraries or library “industry”
- Customer-service or sales experience
- Some technical skills (HTML, CSS, MySQL, etc.)
- Mac user and lover
- Love of cheese
Location:
Though LibraryThing is a somewhat virtual company, Boston, Massachusetts or Portland, Maine area are preferred for this position. If we get enough applications we may not look at others—no offense.
Compensation:
Salary plus gold-plated health and dental insurance. We require hard work, but we are flexible about hours.
How to apply:
Email and resume is good. Don’t send a separate cover letter. In your email, please go through the bullets above, explaining briefly how they do or don’t fit you. We will accept applications through November 7th.
Send emails to Abby: abby@librarything.com.
Labels: employment, hiring, jobs