Fuzz Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 We're interested in adding someone new to the team to help write our weekly newsletter, because I seriously suck at doing it consistently. What we're looking for:Someone with a good command of the English language. Grammar and spelling are important. You should be much better at it than me.Willing to write it up each week with consistency (should take less than 45 minutes), we usually send it Saturday.Help us come up with ideas to improve the newsletter The newsletter is basically a recap of the weeks most important news on GDA. You'll receive an email every Friday showing you the top stories that week and you pick the best ones to write up and summarize for our newsletter subscribers (currently around 6,500 people). I'll also be around to help with whatever you need and to organize stories. As part of the GDA Staff you'll get a shiny new badge and access to part of the mod forum to give input on ideas for GDC as well. UPDATE: This position has been filled. Thank you all for your interest in applying!
mechanicalman Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 A shiny new badge and access to the mod forum? What about money?
Fuzz Posted October 9, 2012 Author Posted October 9, 2012 A shiny new badge and access to the mod forum? What about money? That's a given. You'll get stock options. When is the deadline to apply? Let's say... Friday?
mechanicalman Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 That's a given. You'll get stock options. Awesome. I'll take it.
TheGreenDayKidd Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I would like to do that, but I'm not good at English...
fukingcounterstrike Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Awesome. I'll take it. Congrats on the position I look forward to continuing my habit of not reading any of the headlines but happy knowing you write them
Lauren Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Is there a way we can like... do a practice one? I'm interested, but I want to make sure I can do it right.
Firecracker Lell Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I'm gonna apply! It'd be great to write those kinda stuff I love writing about GD news! Excuse me, is 3 lines enough for the reason?
Harry Potter. Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I would like to do that, but I'm not good at English... I speak English but I don't use many "interesting" words. Is there a way we can like... do a practice one? I'm interested, but I want to make sure I can do it right. Good point!
TheGreenDayKidd Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I speak English but I don't use many "interesting" words. Well I understand and speak English quite well, but I probably make some mistakes in writing so.. ^^and yes I also don't use many ''interesting'' words. But I would like to write about Green Day news! I would like to take time for doing that!!
Fuzz Posted October 9, 2012 Author Posted October 9, 2012 I'm gonna apply! It'd be great to write those kinda stuff I love writing about GD news! Excuse me, is 3 lines enough for the reason? Yep. Is there a way we can like... do a practice one? I'm interested, but I want to make sure I can do it right. Well...you could just write one up and send it in. Pick a handful of stories from the last week and write up a summary of them. There's nothing really fancy with the place we send from. It's similar to posting on GDC.
Lauren Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Well...you could just write one up and send it in. Pick a handful of stories from the last week and write up a summary of them. There's nothing really fancy with the place we send from. It's similar to posting on GDC. Is it just writing, or are there pictures, etc, too? do you have any examples of past ones? I didn't even know we had a newsletter! I just signed up for it. It's a good idea, since some people would much rather read summaries once a week, especially the older, more busy, people.
Fuzz Posted October 9, 2012 Author Posted October 9, 2012 Is it just writing, or are there pictures, etc, too? do you have any examples of past ones? I didn't even know we had a newsletter! I just signed up for it. It's a good idea, since some people would much rather read summaries once a week, especially the older, more busy, people. Here's the last one I sent https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.droplr.com/files_production/acc_91238/sYWt?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJSVQN3Z4K7MT5U2A&Expires=1349811661&Signature=eZpUFsAFcFy6kjyOnQ5ixt7jqxA%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27news.png
Firecracker Lell Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Doesn't seem that difficult to write Would be cool! So, you're gonna choose the one for it on Sat?
Jorik Van de Ven Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 What about a Dutch newsletter as well, for all of us "dutchies"?
Fuzz Posted October 9, 2012 Author Posted October 9, 2012 What about a Dutch newsletter as well, for all of us "dutchies"? The far majority of our visitors speak English, so for now we're focused on offering what we can to the most amount of people.
Justin Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 That's a given. You'll get stock options. I want stocks!!! But i want actual old school stocks like on paper i can hang on a hall as a piece of history, none of this digital crap. (Not to mention if i bought stocks when i first found this site back in like 2003 or something, they'd be booming like anything nowadays)
Jorik Van de Ven Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 The far majority of our visitors speak English, so for now we're focused on offering what we can to the most amount of people. Ah ok! I want to apply, but i'm affraid I suck at the language. I'm not worried about the other stuff, like: The time, how to use a computer. I also check GDA, GDC & the official GD website/facebook every day. So that's also not a problem. It's just the english grammar and stuff.
Sleeper Agent. Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 That's a given. You'll get stock options. I thought we just got 1% cut of Green Day's earnings each, damn, I already bought a mansion and a boat
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