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A fast growing African online portal is looking for a Big Brother Africa blogger to blog for its audience throughout the show’s duration.

The ideal candidate is passionate about Big Brother Africa and should have followed the show since inception. The candidate should be obsessively interested in the show and its candidates and have a fun, interesting and insightful writing style. He or she will also maintain each of this year’s representatives’ page on the website with up to date information about their show performance.

The ideal candidate will blog about the following:

- Interesting highlights from daily, nomination and highlight shows
- Updates about evictions as well as interesting web videos and stories about show segments
- Opinions about Big Brother Africa Representatives and their eviction chances
- Any other insightful commentary that will be useful to the website’s audience

The candidate can be of any nationality and should be able to work remotely from a laptop computer. The candidate should also have strong writing and new media skills. The candidate will also be responsible for sharing their ideas with passionate online communities on African social networking sites as well as on Facebook and Twitter to gather a following for their posts.

Interested candidates should please send recent writing samples or a quick writing sample about the just concluded Big Brother Africa Launch show to ndaliking@gmail.com. Writing samples should feature the following strengths; a good sense of humour and a fun, insightful writing style.

Deadline: Submit your application as soon as possible as the position needs to be filled immediately.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: ndaliking@gmail.com

For submissions: ndaliking@gmail.com

We are a new site looking for already established bloggers looking to make extra cash off their blog. If you are a writer and want to start your own blog that cover our special areas that's even better! We can create you a blog of your choice and get you easily setup.

Our target audience are multicultural women 18-32.

Special areas:

1. Music/Entertainment (Hip Hop, R&B, Pop, Alternative, Soul)
2. Style/Beauty

If you are interested please contact us ASAP.

Location: Nationwide

Compensation: 100/month + Free blog setup

Via: craigslist.org

Contact Information:

For inquiries: gigs-72zdy-2355268513@craigslist.org

For submissions: gigs-72zdy-2355268513@craigslist.org

FREELANCE BLOGGERS - ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH

Advocates for Youth is hiring a number of freelance bloggers to write on various reproductive justice- and human rights-related topics, including but not limited to:

- Comprehensive sex education and abstinence-only-until marriage programs

- Abortion rights in the U.S. and across the world

- Stereotypes and portrayals of sex, sexuality, and gender in pop culture (film, television, music, etc.)

- LGBT rights in the U.S. and across the world

- Contraceptive access and HIV/AIDS services in communities of need

Your writing will be featured on Amplify (http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org), an online community and blogging platform visited by over one million people in 2010. Amplify is a youth-driven community dedicated to changing society's dysfunctional approach to sex, sexuality, and sexual health. Accordingly, we are looking for bloggers that know how to write with verve, passion, and conviction in order to inspire their readers to social action.

In addition, we are looking for bloggers who can:

- Demonstrate a clear commitment to reproductive justice and sexual health advocacy

- Meet tight editing and publication deadlines
- Write with a strong editorial voice (think opinion-driven and investigation-driven pieces as opposed to academic prose)

- Write thoughtfully on a specific area of expertise, or else on a broad variety of topics

- Be willing to write on topics that are assigned to them, and respond quickly to current events

Finally, freelance bloggers should know -- or at least be willing to learn -- the ins and outs of grassroots online marketing and cross-posting: in this position you will be responsible for promoting your writing on popular websites, blogs, online newspapers and magazines, and other venues.

This is a remote position. Freelance bloggers will be paid per article/blog post.

Organizational Description

Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and promoting policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health. Since 1980, Advocates has been providing information, training, and advocacy to youth, youth-serving organizations, policy makers, and the media in the United States and internationally. Advocates' philosophy of Rights.Respect.Responsibility.® informs all its work. The organization promotes youth rights to sexual health information and services, models youth-adult partnerships in all its efforts, and holds society responsible for its role in providing youth with the tools they need to make responsible decisions about their sexual health.

How to apply

Please send a cover letter, resume, two writing samples, and a short explanation of the topics that you are interested in writing about to nikki@advocatesforyouth.org.

Writers/Bloggers:

BLM is seeking a creative, highly motivated and well versed writers and bloggers. Contributors are expected to contribute on a weekly basis on an outlined editorial schedule provided by the Editor.

You must submit a formal writing sample for consideration. Please send us any of your writing that is relative to topics BLM already covers. Send us links or attach a word/pdf file with location, and full contact information. Please apply by emailing your resume, writing samples/blog links, and contact information to submissions@blackliteraturemagazine.net.

Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa

We want your articles!

Requirements:

Daily article on the latest Township news, Fashion, Night life, Hot local celebrities, Kwaito and Prima donnas!!

We pay R100 per published article. Send your carefully written 300 word sample to jumpjournos@live.co.uk. If we like what we see, we'll contact you!

We are looking for a blog writer in Pretoria to write about repossessed houses and cars. Full time. R4000 - R6000 per month. Please send us your CV and an example of a piece written by you to ilze@myroof.co.za

Remuneration: R 4000.00 - R 6000.00 PER MONTH

Employment Type: Full time

Region: Pretoria, Waterkloof Glen

Company: Classroom Teachers, 0861592277

Deadline: 4 January 2011

Start date: February 1, 2011
Application deadline: January 4, 2011
Education requirements: High school
Languages needed: English
Level of language proficiency: Must have excellent English language skills.
Employment type: Part time, Contract

Description

Voices of Youth needs bloggers!

Voices of Youth is UNICEF's site for young people interested in learning about and taking action on issues affecting their lives. VOY is currently undergoing a redesign to update the site's look and functionality. The new site will emphasize interactivity and dialogue, and will feature posts from youth contributors, UNICEF staff, activists, bloggers, etc. Our target population is young people worldwide who are interested in learning more about issues central to UNICEF's mandate (such as child rights, gender-based issues, education, HIV and AIDS, etc.)

We're looking for 2 part-time bloggers to create original content (primarily print, but video, audio, and visual pieces are welcome) for Voices of Youth. Content can include: position pieces on topics relevant to VOY; interviews with thought-leaders; innovative youth-based initiatives to watch; overviews of new trends or breaking news; interesting photos or videos, etc.

Contracts will start in February for 3 months, with the possibility of extension. Previous blogging experience is not necessary, but you should be an excellent writer and familiar with blogging conventions. People of color and people from countries outside the U.S. are strongly encouraged to apply.

You should:

• Be an excellent writer, with solid research skills and the ability to tell a good story;
• Have interest or experience in one or more of the areas currently highlighted on VOY;
• Be able to commit to roughly 2 to 3 days per week;
• Have excellent time-management and organizational skills;
• Have a solid internet connection and a gmail account;
• Be able to put your own unique spin on other articles/blog posts.

Experience blogging with similar themes is highly desirable, as is past experience as an activist, demonstrated use of social media, and knowledge about key themes in development. We'll work with you along the way, and are flexible regarding working hours and check-ins. UNICEF retains the right to full editorial privileges.

How to apply

Please send an email with the subject line "VOY" to unicef.youth.jobs@gmail.com by January 4, 2011, and include the following:

1. A brief description of why you think you are a good fit, including topics you'd be interested in writing about (please check out the current VOY site at www.unicef.org/voy)

2. Between one and three writing samples, one of which should be a blog entry of no more than 600 words.

3. A resume.

Please note: due to the high volume of responses, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. More information is available at http://www.unicef.org.

GhanaWeb has been publishing news from Ghana since 1999. As such the site is very popular amongst Ghanaians living inside and outside of Ghana.

We are looking for ambitious bloggers who are interested in running their own high-end blog on ghanaweb.com.

The blog can be about any subject which is of interest to the audience of GhanaWeb. The scope of the blog should be Ghana and/or Ghanaians.

Possible themes for blogs are about health, technology, life-style, media, investing, fashion, fashion, movies, cooking, architecture, law, immigration, parenting, etc. In particular we are interested in content which can appeal to women.

We are not very much interested in blogs about news, politics and your personal life.

GhanaWeb firstly offers a large audience for your blog. Your blog will not remain unnoticed. Thousands - possibly ten-thousands - of visitors will read your blog and interact with it.

Secondly we offer autonomy. Your blog will be hosted on its own dedicated subdomain (yourname.ghanaweb.com).

Last but not least we will offer financial compensation for your work. This compensation consists of a fixed monthly payment plus a variable payment depending on the traffic to your blog.

The main requirement is that you love blogging and that you blog well.

If interested please send the url of your blog(s) to jobs@ghanaweb.com.

Blog writer - East

Property Company is looking for a full time article writer. Must write about repo properties/repo cars and other topics. Must have a minimum of 6 months experience. 4000-6500pm, immediately available. Send CV’s to ilze@myroof.co.za

Contact Number: 0861722277

Salary Info: R4500.00 - R6000.00

Deadline: 9 December 2010

Calls for Submission for Language/Place Blog Carnival

Join the Language/Place blog carnival which features over 20 bloggers/writers from around the world in its November edition. To participate in the December edition, contribute a post from your blog archive or put together a new entry that revolves around the theme of language/place. It may be a poem, a short short, a piece of travelogue/reflection or a photo that illuminates your relationship with language, a place you inhabit/visit, like or dislike, a sense of connection/dislocation, being at home or away from home--or being in an in-between realm of words and images.

The Language/Place blog carnival was started by Blue Print Review editor Dorothee Lang. The December edition is hosted by Hong Kong-based fiction writer Nicolette Wong at Meditations in an Emergency.

Read the first edition and full guidelines here.

Send your submissions to langplace@gmail.com