Posted by admin at August 7th, 2008

Yellow Pages Group

Overview

Yellow
Pages Group (YPG), Canada’s Leading Seller of Print and Online
Directory advertising, is seeking a Web Content Manager / Designer to
assist with the development and management of its advertiser-focused
online initiatives.

This
role consists of supervising the creation, posting and maintenance of
content, graphics and elements relating to the Advertiser Centre
(advertisers.yp.ca)  and Certified Marketing
Representative (CMR) websites. The successful candidate will contribute
to the creation and maintenance of a high quality user experience for
both websites.

We’re
looking for someone who can understand the technical models of the
sites and when necessary, work with our technology partners and vendors
to provide functionality, navigation, architecture, content management
and site-maintenance.

This
person will also be responsible for maintaining good relationships with
internal and external customers, vendors and partners. S/he will manage
incoming change requests and be responsible for managing the Content
Management System (CMS), style sheets and YPG brand guidelines relating
to the sites. S/he will also work with external vendors when required
to manage the deployment of new features and site functionality.

Key areas of responsibility

1. Content Management: - approximately 50% of time

• Supervise all content related aspects of the Advertiser Centre and CMR website (approximately 60% of time). 
• Includes
  managing content updates, and developing new content using existing
  site templates, publishing tools, style sheets and YPG brand book. 
• Site
  quality and ongoing maintenance guidelines must be adhered to at all
  times to ensure pages, links and images are loading and working
  correctly.  Any issues must be reported to the appropriate technical
  contacts with follow up as required.
• Manage projects and processes for the design, support and maintenance of the site. 

 2. Website Monitoring & Reporting: - approximately 20% of time

• Execute a program of periodic checks of feature functionality to ensure quality control
• Coordinate monthly site metrics and other reporting as required.
• Provide support and input into technical, architectural and content management issues.

3. eMail Management: - approximately 5% of time

• Manage
  inbound user e-mails – respond to customer comments, input or
  complaints by delivering to the appropriate internal departments for
  follow up and resolution.

4.  Translation Management: - approximately 5% of time

• Manage French translation services for web content that requires translation before posting.
• Work
  with Marketing Communications Manager to review incoming French
  translations for the Advertiser Centre and collateral documents to
  ensure accurate, complete and high quality French communications.

5.  Online Program Development: - approximately 20% of time

• Work
  with the Advertiser Communications Team to deploy programs and
  initiatives designed to drive web traffic, registration, and other
  marketing goals.
• Liaise with marketing communications vendors or agencies, as required.
• Contribute
  to the generation of strategies and plans to better leverage the online
  environment to support YPG communications goals vs. advertisers.

Education, experience and technical skills

• 2— 3+ years experience in media or content management role,
• Advanced communication skills, written and oral in English
• Advanced communication skills, written and oral in French
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Lotus Notes/Outlook; excellent knowledge of Internet
• Expertise in XML, HTML, and flash with some action scripting.  Experience with Dream weaver and web publishing tools, especially Web Logic, an asset.

Soft skills and competencies

• Proven project management skills with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Must work well with minimal supervision and take initiative.  Must work well under pressure.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage external vendors and services as required.
• Knowledge of website and page-design best practices
• Team player.
• Willingness to undertake periodic training to stay current with emerging trends and technologies.

Reference Code:
000497

Apply Now

Posted by admin at July 30th, 2008

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Posted by admin at July 8th, 2008

XHTML/CSS Software Developer

The Role:

We’re looking for a front-end UI software developer to join us on our production team - supporting our Sales and Marketing units. The majority of the work is creating standards compliant Web pages (full or components) and forms. In order to take on this role you must consider yourself a CSS, HTML and Javascript expert.

We’re looking for people who love constant change and also love the Web. If you are passionate about creating beautiful code you’ll likely fit in well with our group. We like developers who have a strong team focus - those who crave design debates, rather than shy away from them. We are an agile shop, focused on highly iterative development with an emphasis on delivering code. Our developers love to get their work in the hands of customers everyday. In return for your hard work, you’ll feel appreciation and respect - as well as be treated to the best development machines and tools available. We’re looking for the best developers - show us you know the Web and we’ll bring you on board, regardless of whether or not you have 1 year of experience or 10.

Your Qualifications/Experiences should include some (or most) of below:

• You understand what we mean when we say “css based layout, not table based”.
• You know what the browser DOM is, and maybe even know how the Mozilla DOM differs from the one for IE.
• You’ve got basic knowledge of server-side scripting languages.
• You truly believe that software development is meant to be iterative and adaptive.
• You know what we mean when we say ‘obfuscate and minify that javascript’.
• You know you aren’t a graphic designer, but you can do the basics in Photoshop like splicing and optimizing.
• You hate IE6 for its poor implementation of standards, but know how to coerce it into displaying things properly.
• You are able to take Photoshop mock-ups and convert them into beautiful page layouts.
• You understand why it is important to use text instead of images for copy.
• You have basic understanding of search engine optimization techniques and how to apply them to every page.
• You know how HTML and XHTML differ and how to validate both.

Technologies (take this with a grain of salt — we need solid fundamentals more than X years of Y):

• XHTML/XML/HTML, CSS, XSL and Web Standards
• AJAX, DHTML, Javascript
• Photoshop

Why Kaboose?

• Work with a market leading Canadian online media company
• Work in a fun, informal, creative, fast-paced and dynamic environment - don’t be a cubicle drone
• Work downtown, steps from the subway at Dundas and University
• Competitive salary and benefits

Are you up for the challenge?
Submit your resume to:   devjobs@kaboose.com

Interested in moving to the top of the pile?

• Submit URLs of sample work
• Introduce yourself, we don’t like template cover letters
• Pick something you’re proud of and send us some sample code

Posted by admin at July 4th, 2008

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the support of small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada. Its finances are supported solely by 105,000 member business owners representing all regions and industry sectors. CFIB relies on direct member contact and extensive surveying to gauge the impact of government policy and economic trends on the small business sector.

The following fulltime 1 year contract entry level position is available in our Toronto office. Applications from within Canada only will be accepted.

WEB DEVELOPER

We are looking for a dynamic Web Developer to aid in the maintenance, development and design of our website. Reporting to the Director, Knowledge Strategies, you will use a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge of how web pages are created to focus on maintaining and developing CFIB’s current web site and designing new web pages. This is an exciting opportunity with ample potential for personal development and professional growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, manage and maintain existing web sites

· Manage posting of all approved content to sites within established time frames, using industry standards and best practices

· Design or apply design of digitized images, banners, bullets, charts, and other graphics to enhance appearance of site

· Execute internal email campaigns across multiple customer platforms

· Assist in the development, implementation and enforcement of operational standards and procedures

· Meet on a regular basis to evaluate and modify site as it seems appropriate.

· Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and applicable technologies integrating into web applications as appropriate and utilize those technologies cost effectively

You will work as a valued member of a team dedicated to ensuring the CFIB site meets the highest quality and content standards. Experience in web design, development and management, and a diploma/degree in a related field are required. Proficiency in (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript and XML, web page design and layout as well as Macromedia Studio including DreamWeaver, Fireworks and Flash is required. Experience with classic ASP, VB Script, .Net is a strong asset. Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and remain client focussed are essential attributes.

Qualified individuals, within Canada, are invited to forward a covering letter with a resume, in confidence, to Yvonne Denichaud, HR Department, Canadian Federation of Independent Business, fax: (416) 222-6595, until July 5, 2008.

Posted by admin at July 4th, 2008

Hey Seneca grads - still looking for work?  Check out Monster.ca

http://jobview.monster.ca/getjob.asp?JobID=73524769

Posted by admin at May 30th, 2008

The posts describing the actions which have taken place between myself & Bluefur have been removed.  Litigation is in the process and the appropriate parties will be served.  The lawsuit stems from actions by Gary Jones & Bluefur.  As recently as May 27th, Gary Jones has posted links to 2 emails, one of which he claims is an email from Morris Rozen. I have never written any such email nor have I ever seen either of the emails prior to Mr. Jones placing them on the web.  I leave it to your own conclusions as to why these emails have been posted.

The emails were posted at http://www.bluefur.com/morris/ on May 27th but have since been removed.

I’ll keep you posted of any new occurences in this regard.

Morris

Posted by admin at May 21st, 2008

We are a small full service design agency in need of a creative/interactive web designer who will be responsible for all website, HTML email ads, and print related design projects. The designers time will be split between 50% Web and 50% Print projects. Please let me know if you have any recent graduates seeking full time employment within a fast paced creative environment OR if you could forward this email to a faculty member that may be able to assist OR forward this message directly to a potential candidate.

“Building Lasting Brands Through Total Brand Management”
www.bytethisinc.com

Posted by admin at March 13th, 2008

Bad Math is looking for full-time web developers!

We’re a small shop that does big projects, which means the work always stays interesting. We’re looking for creative problem-solvers who take initiative, can work independently and meet deadlines. The successful applicant will be working with us on building web applications - both on the server-side and the UI-side - at our King and Bathurst office in downtown Toronto.

Here are the must-have skills:

• PHP
• Javascript / DOM
• CSS / XHTML
• MySQL

Bonus skills:

• Linux
• Actionscript
• Other computer languages
• An eye for design

Interested? Here’s how to apply:

Send a resume and cover letter to jobs@badmath.com with the subject field “I want to code at Bad Math!”.

Be sure to explicitly point out your experience with the above listed skills. Examples of your work is a must! (Anything you send us will be kept confidential, with the utmost respect for intellectual property rights.) On any work that you show us, be sure to point out exactly which parts you did and, if applicable, which parts you didn’t do. Work examples can be anything from previous gigs to personal projects, so long as you feel there’s something to see.

Note that we cannot respond to every application we get, but if we like what we see, you’ll hear from us within a couple of weeks. No phone calls or snail mail, please.

Can’t wait to hear from you!

Posted by admin at February 18th, 2008

Some people feel that they can anonymously post articles that attack a business or person.  There has been a growing number of blogs posted that do exactly that,  make false claims that are meant to discredit a business or in other instances destroy a person.

While freedom of speech is  a value cherished by many, there is no right to create fictitious stories  and publish them online with the intent to harm someone.  The internet is instant and once something has been published online there is no way to guarantee that it can be completely removed.  In fact even if such an article is removed, if one person downloads it and passes it on, that article could go one forever causing damage as it passes from one computer to the next.

From reading recent court decisions, the courts too feel that online defamation can have a more detrimental and long lasting effect than in other arenas.

At least Blogger.com & Google have taken somewhat of a stand against faux blogs.  If brought to their attention a blog set up to appear as coming from another person will be removed.

So be vigilant and if you’re aware of a fake blog . . . report it.  Get it offline!

Posted by admin at February 14th, 2008

This request came to Derek from one of the past student sponsors.

“I am in the process of hiring a new web/IT person for one of the companies here. I thought I would ask if you knew of anyone looking for work that has some descent skills. The work right now is mostly updating content and skins in dotnetNuke, creating email templates and some other general IT work. Wordpress skills would be an asset as well. Software that we use is typical - adobe web suite. There are some CRM and CMS programs to deal with as well. An ideal person would have good web skills ( graphics/coding ) and the ability to pick up new programs fast.

This will be a contract position - full time hours - for three months with the objective of finding a permanent full time employee.”

Contact Morris for more details