NileGuide needs Local Experts! New Model!

Help build the leading online travel planning website! Nile Guide is looking for web-savvy, social media-loving travel writers to add unique local expert advice and content to the destinations on NileGuide. In this position you will be responsible for shaping your destination’s content on the site and using social media to drive savvy travel planners to your destination on NileGuide. Your work will help NileGuide create the best travel content and travel planning tools on the web.

NileGuide: “All you need to plan your perfect trip.”

NileGuide is the only travel planning website where travelers can plan their complete trip all in one place. NileGuide combines guidebook information, personalized searching for things to see and do, places to stay, integrated booking with one step price comparisons and the ability to organize all this information into a professional quality personalized guide book users can print or download to their iPhone using our new ‘Guide To Go’ app.

For most travelers, the most challenging part of planning a trip is quickly and easily finding the most pertinent travel information. At NileGuide, travelers will find exclusive tips and suggestions, learn about local neighborhoods and personalized searches using travel interests like arts, outdoors, history as well travel styles such as romantic and kid friendly. The result is that users can easily create their own “perfect trips” which means they both save time and, more importantly, have more rewarding travel experiences.

The Local Expert Role

This is a great opportunity for anyone with professional writing experience and a passion for where they live. You will have the opportunity to tell the world what makes your destination great and reap the rewards from doing so. Local Experts will receive a monthly retainer plus traffic and performance-based bonuses. The higher the quality of the content you create, the more money you can make. Activities will vary from reviewing the state of current points of interest, to writing descriptions of points of interests, to adding photos, blogging, using Twitter, and more.

As a NileGuide Local Expert, you must:

• Love to use your stellar writing skills. A big part of the job is writing about your destination, whether it’s a description about something to do or a restaurant, or a blog post about an upcoming festival.

• Have a high level of enthusiasm and insider knowledge about your destination

• Be responsive, reliable, and highly detail-oriented

• Be excited about learning SEO and applying it to your work

• Be tech savvy: comfortable with Excel, social media, general web use, and more

• Be an entrepreneurial self-starter needing little direct management

• Be outgoing: involvement in creating a social presence online in forums, Twitter, the blogosphere, etc. is the key to Local Expert success.

• Live in the destination you are writing for, and plan to be there for at least one to two additional years. We want someone who can make a commitment to NileGuide.

• Have an excellent command of written English.

• Have a College or University degree.

Compensation:

Local Experts will receive a monthly retainer of $250 for regular edits, new content, blogging, and social media outreach for the first three months. Bonuses will be awarded based upon traffic increases and exceptional work. After three months, performance will be assessed and Local Experts will move to a traffic-based payment structure. Our expectation is that Local Experts will have the opportunity, through the quality of their content, to earn far more money than current work-for-hire rates.

How to Apply:

Please email your resume, a cover letter explaining why you would make a fantastic local expert, and a 200-word description of your destination to Victoria@nileguide.com. Links to applicable clips are appreciated. Please put "application for local expert " in the subject of the email. We will respond to qualified candidates only.

Seeks Travel Writers Support!

World Famous Finalist Christina Santos seeks travel writers support this week!

Christina Santos is hiking the grueling 500 mile Camino de Santiago while desperately trying to accrue hundreds of travel blog followers.

The 25-year-old California-native and writer/blogger for TangoDiva.com is in Northern Spain now and just learned she is a TOP 10 FINALIST in the Entirely World Famous in New Zealand competition. She's up against two other people for the top spot and if she wins, she will embark on an all-expenses-paid three month journey through the South Pacific islands.

Her self made travel video submission is why she is a potential winner.

Christina's deadline to have the most people following her blog is noon Tuesday, Sept. 8 in New Zealand (that's Monday, Sept. 7 at 5 p.m. in California).

While she's exploring the country, Christina will post blogs in a pro-tourism effort for New Zealand and for Entirely Kiwi, the company organizing the competition.

Christina's blog is at http://entirelyworldfamouschristina.blogspot.com/.

As a fellow solo traveler - please vote/follow Christina- and help her live her dream!

Luxury Writers Needed

Looking for writers in select cities around the world, who have a deep knowledge of the luxury city scene.

Cities we are currently looking for writers in: Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco, Atlantic City, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Paris, London, Madrid, Milan. New cities will be added shortly. If you do not see your city and would like to apply, feel free to contact us and ask if we will be adding it.

WHAT YOU GET:
We are looking for individuals who are interested in possibly representing us at launch parties, local events and more. These are fun events centered around the luxury world, so naturally that is a major perk of the job.

-As a writer you get exposure on our site - we are the top luxury site online & receive millions of visitors per month.

-Establish a profile and build your portfolio or promote your blog/book or business through your byline. -- if we like you, we might even take it a step further and help you promote your business in other ways, such as making you the local expert.

-PAY: Payment will be determined based on performance and our evaluation of how successful a working relationship would be.

WHAT WE WANT:
A handful of articles per month on luxury news in your city. Including, but not limited to:
-New Restaurant Openings
-New 5-Star Hotels Opening/Renovations
-Celebrity Sightings
-Events & Launch Parties
-Reviews on Nightlife, Attractions, Dining etc.
-Where to shop and why
-top lists (top luxury bars, top luxury services etc.)

QUALIFICATIONS
-Very strong writing skills
-A Talent for knowing who, what and where is hot right now in your city.
-A commitment to write a few articles per month
-A Voice, personality and authority.
-The ability to represent a luxury company well.

Do not apply if you do not have an understanding of the luxury lifestyle.

Travellers' Tales Festival - Photography & Writing

A rare chance to see travel legends in London. A weekend celebration of the world's finest travel photographers and travel writers, at the RGS in London.

Date: 28 February to 01 March 2009
Time: 10:00 am
at 18:00
Location: Royal Geographical Society HQ , Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom.

Contact: steve@travellerstalesfestival.com
www.travellerstalesfestival.com

Job.travel

(Forimmediaterelease.net) FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Job.travel, the premium employment site for the hospitality and travel industry, introduces an incredible deal for travel and hospitality employers in Lexington-Fayette. For a fraction of the price of .com competitors, job.travel offers employers both unlimited job postings and unlimited candidate searches for an annual subscription of $198.

With a subscription to job.travel, employers can quickly search candidates and job opportunities either from handheld, mobile devices or desktop computers. Ideal for the busy, on-the-go individuals, job.travel offers mobile text and e-mail alerts when candidates and jobs match. These alerts provide access to “snapshots,” which provide a quick view of both candidates and job opportunities.

Designed to focus on matching qualified job seekers with employers, job.travel is an easy, user-friendly tool for both employers in “the Biz” and for job seekers. It saves employers thousands of dollars over other employment sites and offers resume uploading, creation, and unlimited job searches for free to job seekers.

In these economic times, job.travel saves employers money, time, and the hassle of finding a qualified candidate. To take advantage of unlimited job postings and candidate searches in the Horse Capital of the World for less than twenty dollars a month, please visit www.job.travel/Directory/City/Lexington-Fayette to create your account and begin posting your organization’s career opportunities or create your resume for an exciting new position in hospitality and travel.

About job.travel

Job.travel, the travel and hospitality industry’s targeted, premium employment site, focuses solely on efficiently matching qualified job seekers with employers. With the ability to quickly search candidates and job opportunities from handheld, mobile devices or desktop computers, job.travel is designed to be easy to use. Please visit, www.job.travel for more information and updates on job.travel news.

Email: info@job.travel

Travel Writers Needed for Website

www.travelodium.com is looking for writers for ongoing paid work.

The article is writing about your home town giving tips about where to go and what to see as described by a local.If you live in a large city it might be best to write about your district. It would be great to get one photo with the artlcle as well.

The format of the article is

1. Must Do

2. What do you like best about your city?

3. Best Walk

4. Best Restaurants

5. Best Music/Festival

6. Best Nightlife

7. Best Day Trip Out of the City

8. Something that not many tourists would know about.

A sample of the finished product is found at this link
http://www.travelodium.com/site/1435885/page/1330535


Contact:
David Cronk
editor@travelodium.com

City History Walking Guide Book

If you know a city well enough to write walking guides past historical points of interest, then we want to hear about you.

Writers are required for books on cities around the world.

You will prepare a well-reseearched, interesting set of walking guides with just the right amount of variety and information to keep readers interested, whilst also providing a colourful guide to the chosen city.

This is a paying market.

Preference will be given to published travel authors, though this is not a requirement.

Please submit your chosen city/cities, and a brief bio covering and published credits, and why you're the right person for the job.

Contact:
Matt Falcus
matt@destinworld.com
www.destinworld.com

Seeking Freelance Fashion Writers for Nationwide Retail Blog!

We are looking for fashion writers to write 2-3 posts/week for a nationwide retail blog. Topics include trend pieces, must-have items, stylist profiles and more. You must be able to take basic content that we give you and turn around a blog post in the tone + voice of our brand. Perfect for a student looking to get some experience and exposure! It’s essential that you have knowledge of (and hopefully a love for!) hip, modern women’s apparel, shoes, handbags, accessories and beauty. This is a compensated position.

If you are interested, please reply with a resume and a sample of your work and/or a link to your work online.

Compensation: US$50/post

Reply to: gigs-961648513@craigslist.org

Heart and Stroke Foundation Seeks Bloggers for Paid Engagement (Homebased)

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is looking for two bloggers (one French-speaking, one English-speaking) for a six-month engagement beginning in January.

Our ideal candidates will:

- Be motivated to pursue a healthier lifestyle
- Possess solid writing skills
- Be comfortable sharing their personal experiences

We are looking for two bloggers who are interested in making small heart-healthy lifestyle changes, and who are willing to share their experiences with Canadian women. From January to June, you will be sharing your successes, setbacks, challenges and stories with a community of Canadian women who are also committed to improving their heart health.

These blogs are part of The Heart Truth, a national campaign designed to share the truth about heart disease and save the lives of women across the country by showing them how to reduce their risk by as much as 80 per cent through lifestyle changes. For more information on The Heart Truth, please visit www.thehearttruth.ca.

TO APPLY: Please submit a resume, two writing samples, a short biography, and links to your blogs, websites or online profiles if applicable. Send all materials to heartbeatsblog@thehearttruth.ca before December 22nd 2008.

Help Start an Education Blog! (Work from Home)

We are an educational consulting firm and one of our clients is looking to start a blog dedicated to the world of public school education.

We would like the blog to track and comment on current events within the education industry – including, but not limited to: administrative initiatives worthy of national and local press coverage, new administrative appointees, upcoming vacancies, major events that impact school districts (political alliances/community partnerships/natural disasters), published test data and achievement records, ground-breaking ventures in district policy or strategy, reform efforts, funding stories (major donations and/or partnerships with non-profits, etc.)

Are you blogger? Do you follow educational politics?
Please put together a proposal for how you would get this up and running and then how you would manage it on an ongoing basis.

If you’re proposal is accepted you could be hired to be a professional blogger!

Terms:
Please present a proposal for the following:
• Starting the blog
• Maintaining the blog
• Compensation for each of the above
• Why you are the best candidate to handle this project

Proposals Due: January 5th
To be delivered via email along with resume and/or brief bio telling us who you are.

Reply to: job-961782657@craigslist.org

Bloggers need for sports websites

Do you live and breath sports? I need serious sports fans for sports blogs. We have a section / site for nearly every sport, so no matter what sport you follow we can probably use you. Formal writing experience not necessary but passion for sports is. There is a small amount of pay for your effort. We cover these sports: poker, high school/NFl/NCAA football, NBA/NCAA basketball and the WNBA, NHL Hockey, MLB baseball, tennis, golf, boxing, horse racing, mixed martial arts, MLS soccer, Nascar, NHRA drag racing What's your favorite sport? And why is it your favorite?

Reply to: gigs-961795809@craigslist.org

Men's Shopping Blog needs Freelance Writer

We are looking for a freelance writer to write 2-4 posts/month for a men's gear/shopping blog. Topics include trendy products, must-have gadgets, cool books, men's accessories and more. It’s essential that you have knowledge of (and hopefully a love for!) hip, modern men’s gear, gadgets, bags, accessories and other similar items. This is a compensated position.

You must be able to take basic content that we give you and turn around a blog post in the tone + voice of our brand. Perfect for a student looking to get some experience and exposure! For each post approximately 20-25 products and images will be supplied as well the basic explanation and direction of the post. Approximately 60-70 words will need to be written per product.

If you are interested, please reply with a resume and a sample of your work and/or a link to your work online.

Compensation: US$40 per post

Reply to: gigs-961814851@craigslist.org

Freelance writer for short 'city' articles (Austin, Texas)

An international publisher of travel and destination guides for over 300 cities worldwide, and are always looking for interesting writers to contribute to their ever expanding guides.

You'll be writing about the places withing Austin that you know best - the hidden gems that make your city so appealing to tourists and locals a like!

They're looking for new restaurants, must visit cafés, or any self proclaimed "Hot Spot" that should be included within a travel guide for Austin.

There's no need for a formal resumé, but please provide a short background of your writing history. Mention the name of the city for which you're applying in the title of your email.

Compensation: USD $10 per submission

Reply to: gigs-961583032@craigslist.org

Magazine Writers (Los Angeles, California)

A new magazine for Prop 215 patients in California. They are looking for writers to contribute to our publication. If you have writing samples no longer than 3000 words, you can email them for review & consideration. Also if you can pitch some ideas for upcoming issues and a resume they will put you into consideration.

Reply to: gigs-959522998@craigslist.org

Online Magazine Looking for Freelance Writers

Culture11 is a new Web magazine seeking talented freelancers.

They aim to publish exceptional reportage, skillful storytelling, provocative cultural analysis and intellectually honest argumentation. Our subject matter includes the arts, politics, education, leisure, faith, family, ideas, community, technology, commerce and media. Our editorial slant is big tent right-of-center -- as open-minded about what we publish as The New Republic, The New Yorker or The New York Times Magazine, but on the center-right rather than the center-left. They'll publish apolitical pieces, explicitly conservative and libertarian pieces, and even an occasional left-of-center piece. They're committed to rendering the world as it is, engaging ideas rather than dismissing them, and conversation rather than polemic. There isn't any ideological litmus test for the writers.

Submission guideline:

FEATURES EDITOR seeks exceptional non-fiction, ideally with a narrative element -- 1,000 to 3,000 words, a premium put on great reportage, skillful storytelling and fresh ideas. Also considered: personal essays, idea driven arguments and dispatches that make an argument about what a place is like (see our Pins on a Map feature). Some writers who execute the kind of feature pieces in which we're interested include Michael Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Heather MacDonald, Malcolm Gladwell, Joan Didion, Jack Hitt, Josh Levin, Susan Orlean, Lawrence Weschler, Ian Frazier, Clive Thompson, Lawrence Wright, Ted Conover and Chris Anderson.

Send pitches and/or submissions to conor@culture11.com - at least one idea for a piece.

POLITICS EDITOR seeks confident, thoughtful reported stories and ideas commentary, 700 to 1600 words. Emphasis is on direct, firsthand experience; a premium is placed on your ability to contextualize big, important issues within a framework that your experience creates. Think Hunter Thompson on the '68 Convention, Christopher Hitchens on Cyprus, David Rieff, Rebecca West, Taki, David Brooks. Direct pitches and submissions to conor@culture11.com and put POLITICS in the subject line. Pitches must be clearly, concisely, and thoroughly detailed, unless they are brilliant, in which case they may be of whatever length or detail. The editor is willing to take risks and even wing it but is not to be trifled with.

ARTS EDITOR seeks informed criticism and reported essays on the state of pop culture in the 800-1500 word range. A wide range of subjects will be considered: Movies, television, video games, music, celebrity culture, popular fiction, technology, and Internet trends are all areas of interest. Tonally, pieces will vary -- some will be enthusiastic, some critical, some serious, others frivolous -- but they'll all share a strong curiosity about how Americans interact with the world of technology and pop culture. So if you've got innovative ideas, clear prose, humor, and a strong grasp of the pop landscape, send your pitches (2-3 paragraphs) to peter@culture11.com.

RELIGION EDITOR seeks fresh and provocative non-fiction pieces 800-1400 words. Original essays and reported profiles about new movements, institutions, and religious leaders are preferred. Religion pieces should seek out the odd, rare, and surprising. Spiritual autobiography is strongly discouraged, unless it has Thomas Merton-like literary merit. Send pitches to conor@culture11.com with RELIGION in the subject line.

SPORTS EDITOR seeks pieces that uncover new trends, criticize sports-media, or celebrate historical figures (so long as the author provides a new perspective on the subject). Special favor will be shown to pieces that combine witty writing with original arguments and strong statistical analysis. Think of the spirited prose and arguments of Bill James, and the sites Football Outsiders and FireJoeMorgan. Charts and graphs are welcome. Send pitches to conor@culture11.com with SPORTS in the subject line.

Payment negotiable on a per piece basis.

Travel Blogger Needed in State College/Central Pennsylvania area

Small publishing firm in Atlanta looking for a travel blogger in the State College/Central PA area for a new travel website. Project involves writing a weekly 250-word blog on various attractions/happenings in the area for a period of one year.

Travel writers with minimum two years experience required; must also live in area and be able to do occasional firsthand reporting on local restaurants, hotels, museums, etc.

Compensation is US$840 for a total of 52 posts.

To apply, please send resume and three relevant writing samples to jill@collinsonpublishing.com.

Inexperienced writers or writers without applicable writing samples please do not apply. Potential candidates will be contacted; please no phone calls or follow-up emails.

Online Magazine Seeks Knowledgable Music Writers (Boston)

Online music magazine is building a team of talented writers to write album reviews, features, concert reviews, and online interviews we assign them to as well as reviews they want to write about and feel are relevant. We are collaborative and open to many ideas. You'll be part of a team with all the freedom and avenues of expression that come with it!

They pay according to how much your review is read versus a flat fee. The more more money we make the more money you make!

Email written sample with resume to gigs-954309272@craigslist.org

Online pop magazine paid intership (chicago)

Entertainment web company seeking premier writing artists with a real passion for good content. Areas of interest are the arts, film, music, fashion, sports, lifestyle (cars, gadgets, travel, etc.), politics, and others. Candidate must be a "whats happening now in the world " type person. A true forward thinker, with strong pop culture influence. This is a paid intership for student or writing gurus.

Interested person can submit writing portfolio for any consideration. Serious writers only. Editors also welcome.

Compensation: US$10 up to US$25 hourly

Reply to: gigs-954420844@craigslist.org

Need local 1,000 word article for South Florida

ThinkWeston Magazine and ThinkWeston.com need 900-1100 word article greeting 2009 in South Florida

Slant of cover story article can be playfull, combination of new hope with Obama and current South Florida economic conditions

Article will reach in print and online over 75,000 affluent loyal readers

If accepted, we have a small cash allowance that will grow through 2009

Compensation: US$100

Reply to tom@thinkweston.com

Freelance Writers for Cityguide

Cityguide Publishing, Boca Raton, FL

Looking to hire freelancers for articles about Reno, Lake Tahoe or Fort Myers for publication of cityguide which can be seen at:

www.reno.net
www.laketahoe.net
www.fortmyers.net

All work must be original and exclusively published on our sites.

Pay will range from US$50 to US$150 per article based on length, writer's experience and subject matter.

Resources: www.freelancejobopenings.com