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Editorial Intern for Web publisher

The GilDeane Group, Inc. is a consulting and training firm that helps people and their organizations work effectively across cultural borders. The company publishes an on-line resource guide and journal.

Editorial Intern wanted for web publisher. Responsible for copyediting and proofreading articles for database and maintaining database.

Must have excellent editorial abilities. Page layout knowledge is preferred, but not required. Must be able to work independently. An interest in multiculturalism a plus.

Start Summer Quarter.

Flexible hours and school credit available.

Part-time Technical Writer / Project Management Coordinator, Ozone International

Technical Writer / Project Management Coordinator, Ozone International

Job Description: Interested in joining a small, passionate group of people who are making a huge impact on the food & beverage industry?

We’re Ozone International, and we help the world’s largest food processing companies clean & sanitize their plants using cold water & ozone instead of hot water & chemicals. Not only are our systems 100% organic and 100% environmentally friendly, our systems enable food & beverage processing companies to increase their production by up to 5 hours a day while reducing their sanitation staff by up to 50%. We’re shaking up the sanitation industry, and we’re looking for a few passionate people to help us out.

One person we’re looking for is a part-time Technical Writer / Project Management Coordinator.

Webmaster Internship

Webmaster Internship
The Gene Expression Laboratory at Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC has an open position for a Webmaster Intern. We seek a detail-oriented intern to maintain an existing Intranet site and work with scientists to add new content as needed. Some writing, editing, and interviewing subject matter experts will also be required on occasion. The intern will work with another Technical Communication graduate, but most of the projects will be independent. This position has a lot of opportunity for creativity and improving the usability of the web site.

Paid Internship with City of Seattle, Security & Emergency Management

Security & Emergency Management Intern

Receive supervised practical training while providing programmatic support to the Security and Emergency Management Office of Seattle Public Utilities (SPU). Attend project team meetings and learn how to support project strategies and deliverables. Learn how to support security maintenance activities. Learn how to support emergency management plan development and coordination, manage and document plans and procedures, build a database of plans, and identify plan maintenance activities.

Download full description.

To view additional internship opportunities with the City of Seattle, visit: http://www.seattle.gov/personnel/employment/internships.asp

Temporary Assistant Webmaster, ifpte17.org

Assistant Webmaster for IFPTE Local 17
Positions Available: 1
Location: Seattle

Job Description: We need a part-time webmaster to help migrate our redesigned site of about 700 pages. It’s mostly cut and paste work, but some facility with the programs listed below is required.

Required Skills: Familiarity with HTML and PHP. Proficiency in Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive CS.

Junior Writer position available at Microsoft Specialized Devices and Applications

a unique opening the Microsoft Specialized Devices and Applications group is hoping to fill on very short notice. This job will be posted in the TC database but in view of the timing and the unique nature of the opportunity, I wanted to make you aware of it personally as I know you are very engaged with recent graduates at TC.

This opportunity rare in that it is for a junior writer, but the writer will be intimately involved in cutting-edge technologies, and the learning curve is going to be amazing. It’s rare to have the chance to place a junior writer at Microsoft and considering the timing I am contacting you directly in the hopes that you may know a promising recent graduate that would like a crack at getting this excellent job; it’d would be a magnificent jumpstart to a young tech writer’s career and who knows where it would lead.

RA Position Available with the Center for Workforce Development

Center for Workforce Development
University of Washington
Graduate Research Assistant: Graduate Mentoring Program & Nanotechnology Research Project

The Center for Workforce Development (CWD) at the University of Washington is seeking a graduate research assistant. CWD creates customized programs to develop the workforce through recruitment, retention, and advancement strategies. The Center conducts research and evaluation in the areas of gender and ethnic diversity in science and engineering. The graduate research assistant position (20 hours/week) will be available starting June 16, 2008.

National Fellowships/Traineeships Application Workshops - May 20 & 21

Graduate Fellowship Opportunities Workshops:
Science, Math, Engineering, Social Sciences & Related Fields
May 20-21, 2008
Program representatives and directors from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Training Programs, the Department of Defense (DOD) SMART Program will be sharing valuable information about their fellowships for graduate studies and research training. Workshops will go beyond providing basic information about the awards to include insights into the writing and interviewing process, how to plan ahead, and what goes into a strong application.

Seattle Monthly Information Architecture Meetup

Tuesday, 5/12 is the date for this month’s IA Meetup, organized by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology.

It’s open to anyone. Once a month, the group gathers to have drinks, chat, network, and geek out with fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user experience designers, and other like-minded user-centered professionals and students.

The format will be casual, but all are encouraged to bring something to discuss — recent work, an interesting topic, or even your resume.

What: Seattle Monthly Information Architecture Meetup (http://ia.meetup.com/57)
Where: Elysian Pub, 1221 E. Pike St., Seattle, WA
When: 7-10pm, May 13th (2nd Tuesday of every month)

Seahawks/Sounders FC Digital Media Internship

The Digital Media Intern will observe and assist the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Sounders FC digital media team with the daily management of the organization’s websites, management of the organization’s social media identity, production of site features (written, photo, video) and management of an online marketing plan.

The intern will be responsible for maintaining assigned content categories for the Seattle Seahawks, the Seattle Sounders FC, Qwest Field, the Sea Gals and the Seahawks Kids Club. By the end of the internship, the intern will have received experience in digital media management, content production, interactive marketing and web design/development.