JOBMATCHBOX

We are excited about tonight’s event.  Registration surpassed our initial expectations so we expanded the presentations block and adjusted the other times accordingly.

For complete details visit the Social Matchbox DC registration page.

We are looking forward to hearing presentations from the following companies:

Network Solutions, TinselVision,*ClearSpring, MobilePosse, Pseuds, WorthPoint, Odeo,  PlanetWebs.tv, Razoo, Webs.com, Intridea, FolioFN, ThreeSpot, Hungry Machine, Investors Without Borders, WhyGoSolo, Siteworx, Viget Labs, Zadby, Positive Energy, comScore, Publi.us, Loladex, FamilyOven, 100dimensions, Qloud, nClud, xyoom, BrowserMedia, Ozmosis, Searchles

In addition to hosting a free jobs list we publish a weekly featured jobs list. Add your jobs here to have them considered for the features list.

We look forward to seeing everyone who has registered at Social Matchbox DC on Monday (March 31^st) at TeqCorner in McLean, VA. With more than 150 attendees and more than 30 of the DC area’s hottest startups participating we expect a great evening.

TinselVision in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Web Developer with experience in developing rich media and web2.0 web-sites using PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, Ajax, Flash and Video. They are also looking for a Sr. Business Intelligency/Data Warehouse Developer and a Product Development Manager.

The Congressional Research Service Office of Technology is seeking a Web Developer to contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of web sites that serve the research and information needs of the Members and staff of the Congress and the staff of CRS. Candidates with a background in modern markup practices (i.e., XHTML, CSS, Web Standards), Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Client- and Server-Side scripting and programming (e.g., ASP.Net, C#, Ajax, Javascript), web-optimized graphic design, and enterprise-level Content Management Systems (e.g., Moss 2007, Stellant, Open Text) are encouraged to apply.

comScore in Reston, VA is looking for a Panel Development Manager – Online Marketing. They need someone with a marketing and creative-centric mindset to head up their online marketing and e-mail campaigns for their worldwide panel. The lucky person who lands the job will be supporting the various recruitment, development, and retention initiatives of their online and mobile research panel. They also have a number of other openings that are listed in our jobs section.

BrowserMedia in Bethesda, MD is seeking an accomplished HTML Team Lead who can mentor others and work with a wide range of web scripting languages (JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript). They are also looking for a Senior Interactive Designer who has a solid understanding of Information Architecture (IA) requirements, design skills (illustration, identity, print) and who has strong skills in Flash / video / motion graphics.

Razoo in Washington, DC (DuPont Circle) is looking for a full time Web Developer to work on user interfaces for their web applications and website. This role calls for someone with exceptional programming skills and computer science fundamentals and involves coding in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails. Prior experience working with JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries, or equivalent experience is highly desired. This person will lead UI efforts and work directly with the Creative Director and Head of Engineering.

WETA TV / Radio in Arlington, VA has a new project funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) called Brainline that is looking for a Web Designer that knows CSS and HTML in addition to W3C and 508 standards. This person must also have a solid command of Adobe Creative Studio. They are also looking for Senior Multimedia Producer who will develop the creative vision and design strategy for the BrainLine website, and lead the implementation of state-of-the-art and forward-thinking multimedia features, enhancements and services to the site. This person must have expert design knowledge and superior interactive sensibilities. For this role they are calling for someone with user interaction design experience as well as an expert knowledge base in PhotoShop, Avid, Flash, video creation and encoding, content distribution networks (CDN), content management systems (CMS), social networking, and audience analysis.

LeanDream, an Arlington, VA based startup is looking for a Chief Application Developer with experience programming in Java ME.

The Army.mil Web Team of L-3 Communications is looking for Web Developers in Arlington, VA to do some defense related work. They want people with experience coding in CSS, PHP, Python and Ruby.

WhyGoSolo is looking for a virtual User Interface Ninja to join them as they build a web application that helps people to take their online networks offline with style. This small team is about to take off and this is an opportunity to get in early. The role calls for someone with strong CSS and HTML skills.

Topic: Discover WhyGoSolo
Location: Viget Labs, 400 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 200, Falls Church, VA 22046

The folks from WhyGoSolo plan to share details on what they have been up to with others from the social media community of DC. WhyGoSolo was intentionally built as a social media platform – throughout development the utilization of WhyGoSolo as a key social media outlet for entertainment venues, networking groups, associations and event promoters was at the forefront of our minds.

WhyGoSolo is and will become more of hub – rather than a destination – to meet the needs of our members and the organizations and businesses who want to interact with our members.

Come Find out About:
1. The difference between using Social Media and using a Social Media Platform
2. One Click Web Integration – Filling in Gaps throughout the Web
3. How the future is focusing on delivering information where your members/clients want to receive it
4. Gathering and redistribution of information on the web
5. Meeting the community and customer’s needs effortlessly through built-in social media tools

Social Media Club was organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This is the beginning of a global conversation about building an organization and a community where the many diverse groups of people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.

SOCIAL MATCHBOX DC is coming up on Monday and registration ends on Friday. This event brings in together the hottest startup companies from around the DC area and people interested them. There is even a free resume clinic for the first hour with recruiters who represent comScore, Freewebs, Hungry Machine, Positive Energy, Razoo, Siteworx and other organizations.

While there are plenty of established and well known startups that will be there (ClearSpring, comScore, FOLIOfn, Investors Without Borders, Intridea, Inc., Positive Energy, Siteworx, Viget Labs), you will find plenty of others who are looking for Co-founders to join them in their pursuit of the next big thing.

All of these companies will have 2-3 minutes to talk or 3-5 minutes to talk and show (on the overhead) what they are working on. Some like to call this middle part of the evening open mic night for startups.

The event is produced in Partnership with Jobmatchbox.com, Teqcorner, DCTechEvents and many others.

Participation is free. Registration is required.

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There has a been a quiet wave moving across the ocean of social media lately. If you weren’t paying attention, or attending SXSW, then you may have missed it. It is called Twitter, but given the buzz that it has been receiving lately you would not assume that a startup with such an unassuming name was about to challenge big name web properties like Facebook and Linkedin. Twitter has gone viral and is poised to go to the next level. In laymen’s terms for today’s market this means that they are a moving up the web charts rapidly. If you prefer statistics then consider the fact that Facebook has experienced a 119.9% increase in users this year, linkedin has had 417.6% increase; both compared with Twitter’s 1216.8% increase. Still not convinced? Check out this velocity chart from Compete.

“So what does this mean for me,” you ask? It means that Twitter is going to be a household brand in your social circles within a few months — in tech and hipster circles it already is. And that means that everyone from brand marketers to recruiters will be looking at Twitter as a big opportunity. And like any other VC backed company they have investors who want to see a return on their investment. I’m betting that Twitter starts expanding user social profiles and thereby challenges Facebook and Linkedin officially in the very near future. Did I mention that you can use it on your iPhone?

Update:

Someone forwarded this article titled ‘Word of Tweet Marketing’ that some of you may enjoy.

This post titled ‘How to be Popular: Overheard on Twitter #5‘ is worth reading.

A former colleague mentioned an article written about careers in social media. The article talks about how difficult it is to objectify the sort of person required for a “community manager” role or for any sort of social media role. Why is this worth writing about? I question why most organizations would want to hire a dedicated social media person. I’m all for organizations being forward thinking, but the people who run around looking for gurus who spew their insights about social media for the sake of social media for the sake of being at the top of everyone’s RSS feeds need to get a grip. Truth be told, the social media pundits do too. Social media is code for “have you been paying attention to what is going on (online) for the last 12-24 months?”, despite the efforts of the Stanford faculty.

Let me back up here for a moment. An organization that is seriously pushing the envelope of social media, like ClearSpring, needs a community manager like my friend Justin Thorp. A company like a hotel probably does not. The difference is that a company like ClearSpring is expanding into markets that haven’t been charted yet, and they need people who can get others excited about those uncharted territories. A hotel needs someone who can do marketing, PR, and who happens to have been paying attention.

These are two entirely different people. The second might have attended a training class on how to leverage Facebook while the first probably organized a Facebook developer garage. One might have an iPhone, the other has had an iPhone and probably organized a group to take their iPhones apart and then re-Program them. They both have a place, but they have different places. If you don’t understand the difference then I recommend reading iWoz, or asking someone who has heard of a blue box. I guess the bottom line here is that it takes one to know one. If reading this makes you want to say “I’m not an engineer” then you should consult experts in this field.

The bottom line is that there are people who set trends and people who follow others who set trends in a one sized fits all manner. Every company needs to hire people who are paying attention, but not every company needs to follow every trend.

Update - I thought that a few links that are tangential to this post might be of interest to some of you. Here they are:

The Hard Pill

The Social Media Expert Plague

Come on out, socialize, get some eats, have a few drinks, and enjoy yourself!

Refresh is a community of web designers, developers, and other new media professionals working together to refresh the creative, technical, and professional aspects of their trades in the Washington, DC, area.

Where:
Capitol City Brewery (map)
1100 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005

In addition to hosting a free jobs list we publish a weekly featured jobs list. Add your jobs here to have them considered for the features list.

If you are hiring, looking, curious, or know someone else who is then you should join us at Social Matchbox DC on Monday, March 31st at TeqCorner in McLean, VA.

BrowserMedia in Bethesda, MD is seeking an an accomplished HTML Team Lead who can mentor others and work with a wide range of web scripting languages (JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript). They are also looking for a Senior Interactive Designer who has a solid understanding of Information Architecture (IA) requirements, design skills (illustration, identity, print) and who has strong skills in Flash / video / motion graphics.

Positive Energy USA in Rosslyn, VA is looking for a freelance web designer who can work with their new User Interaction designer and graphic designer on their website and web applications. They are also looking for a full time web developer with solid Computer Science fundamentals and experience working with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and potentially Java too. This person will be working with their design and engineering team members to build the company’s website and web applications that are planned.

Razoo in Washington, DC (DuPont Circle) is looking for a full time Web Developer to work on user interfaces for their web applications and website. This role calls for someone with exceptional programming skills and computer science fundamentals and involves coding in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails. Prior experience working with JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries, or equivalent experience is highly desired. This person will lead UI efforts and work directly with the Creative Director and Head of Engineering.

WETA TV / Radio in Arlington, VA has a new project funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) called Brainline that is looking for a Web Designer that knows CSS and HTML in addition to W3C and 508 standards. This person must also have a solid command of Adobe Creative Studio. They are also looking for Senior Multimedia Producer who will develop the creative vision and design strategy for the BrainLine website, and lead the implementation of state-of-the-art and forward-thinking multimedia features, enhancements and services to the site. This person must have expert design knowledge and superior interactive sensibilities. For this role they are calling for someone with user interaction design experience as well as an expert knowledge base in PhotoShop, Avid, Flash, video creation and encoding, content distribution networks (CDN), content management systems (CMS), social networking, and audience analysis.

LeanDream, an Arlington, VA based startup is looking for a Chief Application Developer with experience programming in Java ME.

The Army.mil Web Team of L-3 Communications is looking for Web Developers in Arlington, VA to do some defense related work. They want people with experience coding in CSS, PHP, Python and Ruby.

WhyGoSolo is looking for a virtual User Interface Ninja to join them as they build a web application that helps people to take their online networks offline with style. This small team is about to take off and this is an opportunity to get in early. The role calls for someone with strong CSS and HTML skills.

An event that brings together hiring teams and job seekers from across the Washington, DC creative, startup and technology scene. Go here to register.

Welcome back to Jobmatchbox. You will notice some big changes that were made over the weekend. These include the following areas: navigation, design, features, feed management, and page loading performance enhancements. A brand new company directory with submission form has been added that replaces the old category for featured companies. This new section will be built around companies that have posted their jobs on the site and companies that we have written about. We really hope that by combining company profiles and jobs the site will become more useful to job seekers who are looking for more than a job description in their search for their next place to work. Featured jobs will be handled the same way that they were before - all jobs submitted using the Add Jobs Form will be automatically considered. It is our hope that you will enjoy the new experience and continue to send us your jobs, feedback and details on what is happening with your organization.

One last thing. In our effort to overhaul the site we had some technical difficulty restoring past blog entries. We will be working to restore these in the coming weeks. If this turns out to be a tall order then we may just create content sections that cover much of the same ground, but provide a fresh perspective and additional detail. There is no question that it is in our best interest to restore these pages. We do apologize for this being missing from the new site.