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[full-time] Associate Technical Writer, Temporary to Permanent at Wall Street On Demand

2008-06-27 21:09:39

Location: Boulder, CO
URL: http://www.wallst.com

Description:

Do you want an innovative environment, technical challenges and brilliant colleagues in addition to business stability? Wall Street on Demand, Inc. has doubled in size the last two years and continues to look for exceptional people who want to solve hard problems and truly make a difference at work.

Wall Street on Demand, Inc. is a dynamic organization, headquartered at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, CO, focused on the design, development and hosting of financial web sites, reports, and tools. We deliver innovative, high quality products to help our clients and their customers visualize, manipulate and understand complex financial information. Our compelling, presentation-rich services for financial professionals and individual investors have won acclaim for our clients, many of whom rank at the top of the Gomez and Forbes awards. Our products are custom designed for each client, completely private-labeled, and fully integrated into the client’s other offerings.

Position Summary:

Work with the Technical Writer to produce accurate, comprehensive, and clear end-user documentation for newly developed software products.

Essential Job Duties:

• Work with internal developers and product managers to develop User Guide documentation for commercial software products.

• Create Produce Release Notes documenting new functionality, bug fixes, and known issues in each released version of the code.

• Update and create Installation Guides for the new and existing products.

• Support the team for the successful launch of each product release

Supervisory Duties:

None.

Job Qualifications:

Education / Experience: Working towards a bachelor’s degree in a computer or technology-related field, or 1+ years experience working in the area of technical writing.

Necessary Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience writing end-user documentation.

• Experience with Microsoft Office.

• Good familiarity with Microsoft operating systems.

• Experience working with software engineers and product managers.

Desirable Skills/Abilities:

• Experience creating on-line help.

• Experience working with web applications.

• Experience working with defect-tracking software.

• Experience creating documentation for a company intranet.

• Knowledge of the financial industry.

Equipment Used Directly:

Computers

Working Environment/Physical Activities:

Typical office environment.

To be considered, please share a code sample, resume and brief cover letter with us, email jobs@wallst.com.

Check out our website for additional opportunities – www.wallst.com.

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[full-time] Web Writer/Editor at IAC/Consumer Applications & Portals

2008-06-18 09:20:50

Location: White Plains, NY
URL: http://www.iac.com

Description:

Web Writer/Editor
White Plains, NY

Summary Description:

IAC’s Consumer Applications & Portals division – creators of Zwinky, Webfetti, Smiley Central, IWON and other popular online communication and social networking products – is seeking a talented Web Writer/Editor to join its Creative team.

You will be writing and editing product copy and blogs – as well as brainstorming creative concepts – for our suite of highly successful products. You should feel comfortable working closely with designers, product managers, web producers and marketing managers to ensure that our products stay ahead of the curve, timely, relevant and profitable.

The Editorial team – working in conjunction with our Design group – is responsible for creating animated character-driven products, as well as messaging for our products and portals, and online marketing/advertising materials. We do it all, we do it well, and we do it in a friendly, supportive, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Write blog posts and daily surveys in support of products and portals
• Write product text, FAQs, and acquisition copy
• Manage content and product promotions, mixing timely events, enticing content and revenue generation
• Participate in brainstorming sessions for new creative product content
• Work with product managers to ensure all products are updated in a timely fashion
• Assist in management of an editorial calendar showcasing holidays and notable events to highlight product offerings
• Become a central player on the Creative and Editorial teams

Technical Skill Level:

• Strong editing, proofreading and writing skills, with a keen sense of design layout
• Deadline-oriented, able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Knowledge of web-based product industry
• Some experience with HTML helpful
• Some direct marketing writing background a plus

Professional Skill Level:

Strong communication skills, ability to interface with numerous departments, positive attitude, sense of humor, creative problem solver, able to work under tight deadlines with little supervision.

Required Experience:

3-5 years writing/editorial experience within Internet/New Media space
BS/BA – Writing, Communications, Journalism or any related field

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[freelance] JavaScript/Ajax Writer at InfoQ.com

2008-04-20 10:55:36

Location: Anywhere
URL: http://infoq.com/

Description:

InfoQ.com (which I’m the lead RIA/JavaScript editor of) is looking for a couple news writers to cover JavaScript and Ajax (for things like say … JQuery). We’d want them to cover JavaScript and Ajax in general of course in a not too biased manner. Time commitment starts at around 1 post (30/45 minutes a week) and is paying at a competitive rate per post.

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