JOB- Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tajik Language Bloggers, neweurasia/TOL
Posted by: Leila Tanayeva <leila.tanayeva@gmail.com>
TOL & neweurasia are seeking enthusiastic bloggers from Central Asia
interested in writing and maintaining blogs in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tajik
We are currently seeking Central Asia based bloggers to write about
current issues on neweurasia's new language blogs. The bloggers will
strive to encourage discussions on their blogs and solicit voluntary
guest contributions from other individuals, also from within the
neweurasia community. They will also translate several blog posts into
Russian and, if possible, into English, ensuring the flow of
communication between the languages.
Requirements:
Knowledge of national language is necessary, fluent English and/or
Russian an advantage. The ideal candidates will be familiar with
social media (blogs), interested in using multimedia and preferably
located within the countries that they want to cover.
Successful candidates are expected to write at least three posts a
week (with an average length of about 300-500 words) and attract
readers and commentators by promoting their blogs on the Internet and
in the mainstream media. He/she must have Internet access, be able to
work independently in a young virtual team and communicate with the
country blog coordinators and the Managing Editor.
A monthly stipend of $150 (transferred in four quarterly installments)
will be paid over 12 months. There will be technical support for the
maintenance of the blog, and the best bloggers will be short-listed
for an intership and a summer course on new media in Prague, Czech
Republic, from 8 to 15 July, 2007.
To apply, please send your CV and your letter of interest to info @
neweuasia.net with the subject line "(Language) blogger". The
deadline for applications is 18 May 2007.
Based in the Czech Republic, TOL ( www.tol.org) is the leading
Internet journal and newsmagazine on the 28 countries of Central and
Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.
neweurasia ( www.neweurasia.net) is Central Asia's premier network of
weblogs, coordinated and written by bright young individuals from
Central Asia together with their peers around the globe.
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