We are currently looking to add a smart junior at our New York city HQ. Please check the description below and spread the word!

Location: New York City
Position: Full-time

Description:
Converseon is looking for a savvy, social-media-involved person to join our team, working on client engagements including blog development, blogger outreach, social network development and outreach, podcast/video projects, digital PR and other online consumer engagement activities and analysis.

We’re very fast-paced and looking for someone with the desire and ability to learn quickly and with the self-motivation to stay on top of new social media venues and opportunities. If you’ve never heard of Facebook or have never read a blog, please don’t apply. Fresh out of college is fine, or with 1-2 years of experience in almost anything, really - as long as social media and community engagement is a driving force in your life.

Responsibilities:
* Research opportunities for client interaction in social media venues

* Assist on outreach campaigns: Researching blogs, online communities and other environments, actively assisting in relationship development

* Outreach in written and verbal form to relevant online communities and constituencies

* Assist in managing client projects, including development and adherence to timelines and project plans

* Support team by developing project documentation, including call/meeting reports, presentations, written deliverables

* As needed and depending on skillset, assist team in development of podcasts, blogs and/or basic video

Required:
* Professional or personal experience communicating and forming relationships within online communities (this could include blogs, message boards, social networks and other emerging web communities)

* Strong written and verbal communications skills - should be the editor type, not the one who needs to be edited

* Creative problem-solver who can think independently

* Self-starter that identifies opportunities and shows passion for team-development

* Able to work effectively in a fast-paced, changing team environment and meet tight deadlines

* Fast learner as well as a great team player

* Bachelors degree or better

Please apply by emailing your resume (ideally in the body of the email, or in Word format) and salary requirements to us at hr@converseon.com.

Last week Converseon announced the “Where in the Summit is Converseon” social media scavenger hunt at the Affiliate Summit West 2008  in Las Vegas Nevada taking place February 24-26. The Affiliate Summit is the most premier conference for the affiliate industry and Converseon will be sending the entire affiliate team to the event. It is an incredible opportunity to meet with new partners across industries, and this year is no different.

We wanted to have a bit more fun this time around and add a unique twist to the standard networking events, making the experience more memorable and interactive for all our affiliates and partners, offering prizes for using Flickr and Twitter in a social media scavenger hunt. The attendees are given clues to solve and must find Converseon team members (Jamie, Stephen, Robin, Harmony and Stephanie) at various locations during the Affiliate Summit to win points towards our prize packages. To gain points participants take a photo with us and upload it to our Affiliate Summit Flickr account, It’s pretty simple but should be lots of fun.

Here are some sample clues:
• How can you go to Las Vegas without seeing ”The King”? 10 points if you get a picture with any Converseon team member with The King, and another 20 points if you are able to get the entire Converseon team and you posing with his eminence. And 25 points more if you’re wearing Blue Suede Shoes in the picture.
• There’s only one way to get around the strip, but don’t get derailed. Catch a picture of any Converseon team member and you on Vegas’ mass transit system and get 15 points.
• Going once, going twice – SOLD! 10 points for a picture with any Converseon team member at this Summit event on Monday at 3 pm.

We’ll also be offering additional prizes through our Twitter account such as coffee mugs or a free lunch with the team. The points will be calculated and totaled at the end of the game. We will post the final winner on the “Where in the Summit is Converseon?” website by March 3, 2008. Prizes from Converseon clients Edmund Scientifics, Relax the Back, MyWinesDirect, Get Organized and Mikasa will be shipped the following week.

We often say that we’re in a post marketing discipline definition world where the lines between direct marketing, advertising and PR have blurred. The new agency of the future is indeed a mashup that brings together the best of those disciplines, skills and people. Converseon has grown in part because of the alchemy that occurs when bringing together search, public relations, computer scientists, direct marketing experts, independent film makers, and more.

Finding the best and brightest from diverse areas has been a core focus of ours. While our team may come from far flung places, cultures and backgrounds, the one consistent and essential element we all share is passion.

At Converseon, we believe in the power of social media to bring people together, no matter where they are, through their passion. And in the world of social media, those with passion self-identify through engagement. They raise their hand through their actions and rise to the top. The proliferation of social media has changed the way we find and hire talent. And it’s one of the reasons we continue to bring in the best and the brightest.

In a world united by social media an organization can cast a much wider net in its search for the most talented employees. Every organization wants to work with highly skilled employees who are truly passionate about what they do. Social media allows you to find these passionate individuals, form a relationship and get to know them on a personal basis. The days of a quick scan of a resume and a brief job interview ahead of a hire are coming to an end. As such, I’m pleased to announce that Christin Eubanks has joined Converseon as an Account Executive.

Christin is one of those who have expressed their passion through social media (and it’s how we found her). She comes to us from Auburn University, Alabama, where she was one of the star students of their PR program, including the highly regarded social media class taught by Robert French. Christin visited our New York headquarters after we got to know her through her various online efforts. Her intelligence and passion for social media shine through online – and even more so in person.

Our team at Converseon is continually expanding and social media is leading us to passionate, talented people from completely disparate backgrounds. We’re lucky to have found a supremely talented group of people throughout the USA and the world. Christin is just the latest example of our own mission to assemble an innovative, flexible and highly skilled team sourced from the global conversation.

Today at 1pm I’ll be speaking on the Bulldog Reporter’s PR University  ‘Guerilla PR and Word of Mouth Marketing‘ Audio Conference, joining some of the industry’s leading thinkers.

My main focus will be on explaining the ins-and-outs of the Second Chance Trees project, our own recent success story with word-of-mouth marketing on a tight budget. As today’s media audience shifts smart communicators can have great success engaging respectfully with online communities. Today, we’ll try to show you how.

What
Bulldog Reporter’s PR University Audio Conference - ‘Guerrilla PR and Word-of-Mouth Marketing: Innovative Practices for Nontraditional, Brilliant PR on a Tight Budget’

Who
Paull Young, Converseon

Mark Hughes, Principal, Buzznation Studios; Author “Buzzmarketing

Paul Rand, President & CEO, Zócalo Group

John Bell, Managing Director/Executive Creative Director, 360° Digital Influence Team, Ogilvy Public Relations; Member, Word of Mouth Marketing Association

Andy Sernovitz, CEO, Gaspedal; Author, “Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking”

When

Thursday, 30 August, 2007

1:00pm-2:00pm

Where

Your Telephone

TO REGISTER: Click here or call 1-800-959-105

Cost: $289 per dial-in site

CEO Rob Key will appear on a ‘Buzz Monitoring‘ panel at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose on Thursday 23 August.

As The Economist said in March 2006: “The direct, unfiltered, brutally honest nature of much online discussion is gold dust to big companies that want to spot trends, or find out what customers really think of them.” Listening to the online conversation can give companies a powerful competitive advantage and this session will help share tips and techniques for monitoring buzz online.

What
Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference and Expo - ‘Buzz Monitoring‘ panel

Who
Rob Key, CEO, Converseon

Chris Sherman, Co-Chair, SES San Jose

Andy Beal, Consultant, Editor, Author, MarketingPilgrim.com

Jonathan Ashton, Director of SEO, Agency.com

When

Thursday, 23 August, 2007

12:30pm-1:45pm

Where

San Jose Convention Center

San Jose, California

Converseon CEO Rob Key will be presenting his ‘Cultural Anthropology in Online Communities’ case study focusing on Second Chance Trees and the principle of ‘karmic-communications’ at WOMMA’s Learn It! Do It! event in DC tomorrow.

Rob presented the same topic at the corresponding event in New York last week and now is the best time to learn from this case study because of all the recent activity around Second Chance Trees. The event looks to be an excellent educational opportunity and there are still some seats available (register here).

What
WOMMA Learn It, Do It Series

Who
Rob Key, CEO, Converseon
Peter Waldheim, Interim CEO, WOMMA
John Bell, Managing Director - 360° Digital Influence, Ogilvy PR
Malcolm Faulds, Vice President of Media Services, Bzzagent
Leslie Forde, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Communispace Corporation
Ted Wright, Managing Partner, Fizz

When
Tuesday July 24 2007
7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Where
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
1111 19th Street NW, 10th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20036

Please leave a comment below if you will be attending, or with any thoughts after the event.

Join the conversation.

Three simple words that form an important mantra for us here at Converseon. It’s a simple statement of what we hope we can help others do and it’s also something we aim to do ourselves.

We embrace the conversation. We love (yes, love) social media and the power it gives people to create meaningful relationships. We are excited about how much everyone stands to learn from getting involved in the online conversation.

With this blog we aim to allow every member of the Converseon team to join the conversation. We also look forward to hearing from you and anyone else out there who is interested in who we are, what we do and the passion that drives our company.

If you’d like to learn more about us, please check out the Converseon website. To get more of a feel for our personality please take a look at our Converseon Twitter stream or our Converseon Flickr account.

So what are you waiting for? Join the conversation.