{"id":2851,"date":"2010-03-27T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:36:04","slug":"intern-gameground-seeks-marketing-and-gaming-writing-summer-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2010\/03\/27\/intern-gameground-seeks-marketing-and-gaming-writing-summer-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERN: GameGround Seeks Marketing and Gaming Writing Summer Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Overview<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Game Ground is a new tool that lets you capture your PC\/Online gaming data and use it to track your gaming history, challenge your friends, and create &amp; earn new achievements in your favorite games. Founded by a team of games industry executives from Blizzard Entertainment, MTV and 888.com, and backed by Sequoia Capital, we are building a team of high-performers working to develop a groundbreaking product.<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are currently building a team of passionate gaming writers to help us with content creation on-site (through our blog) as well as our Social Marketing strategy. Applicants should be avid gamers (any style, any platform) and talented writers who feel comfortable producing a lot of content with short deadlines (~4 blog posts per day along with other responsibilities). We&#8217;re looking for fun team-players who will enjoy the atmosphere of a New York gaming startup, and are excited about the prospect of working hard to help develop a brand voice from the ground up. As the role is an internship, we&#8217;re also happy to work with you and\/or your institution to make sure that you&#8217;re achieving your goals and getting some of the marketing\/content skills you&#8217;d like to develop.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Responsibilities<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Generate 4-5 original posts for the company blog per day, spanning game reviews, experience on-site, feature announcements and general gaming news\/commentary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Work in-depth with Marketing team to create social network (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) strategy and content<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Work with community manager to compile and present feedback from on-site interactions and experiences<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Play and interact maniacally on-site<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Skills<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Be a talented writer who can nail a fun\/casual\/smart\/cool tone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Be capable of creating a large amount of content regularly, with short dead=<br \/> lines<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Have experience blogging (well-maintained personal blogs included)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Have high interest in gaming, gaming news and internet services<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Be comfortable playing and interacting in highly social environments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>http:\/\/startuply.com\/Jobs\/Marketing_and_Gaming_Writing_Summer_Internship_1779_3.aspx<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8212; <br \/>matt ganucheau<br \/>http:\/\/www.ganucheau.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Game Ground is a new tool that lets you capture your PC\/Online gaming data and use it to track your gaming history, challenge your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","category-listserv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}