Experience Washington DC: Jobs, Think Tanks and Food Trucks

If you are looking for work, need to stay on top of your field while you are unemployed and occasionally get hungry and need awesome cheap food – you have arrived.

DC job sites

GENERAL:
http://www.fpa.org/jobs/
devex.com
www.linkedin.com/jobs
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/jjj/
http://us.jobs/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/jobs/home
http://www.dcjobs.com/
http://washington-dc.geebo.com/jobs-online/list/
http://jobs.thejobnetwork.com/

If you have a clearance:
clearancejobs.com
http://www.intelligencecareers.com/jobs/11-001/jobsearch.cfm
http://clearedjobs.net/
http://www.clearedconnections.com/Default.htm

USA Jobs
https://my.usajobs.gov/SpotlightsAll/SpotlightDetails?contentID=70
http://www.usajobs.gov

DC Public Policy Jobs:
http://www.jobwonk.com/a/jbb/find-jobs

Contractors:
https://www7.ultirecruit.com/PRO1019/JobBoard/listjobs.aspx?Page=List
https://www5.ultirecruit.com/PAC1005/JobBoard/ListJobs.aspx?__vt=ExtCan
http://www.macf.com/careers/search-career-opportunities.html
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp?org=ESCINC1&cws=1

Thinktanks:
http://www.usip.org/work-us/staff/contractor-positions
https://web4.rand.org/psp/ps/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL
https://jobs-pct.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchLocation=&searchCategory=&hashed=0
http://csis.org/about-us/careers
http://www.brookings.edu/about/employment.aspx
https://aei-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.allpositions&company_id=16410&version=2
http://newamerica.net/about/employment_opportunities
http://www.heritage.org/about/jobs
http://carnegieendowment.org/about/index.cfm?fa=employment
http://www.epi.org/about/jobs/
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/opportunities/Job
http://www.cfr.org/about/career_opportunities/openings.html
http://www.thirdway.org/jobs
http://www.jointcenter.org/about/employment
http://www.ciponline.org/get-involved/jobs-and-internships
http://www.conotes.com/a/jobs/find-jobs

Startup Jobs:
http://startuphire.com
http://www.ventureloop.com/ventureloop/home.php
http://www.startuply.com/

Female Specific Jobs:
http://jobs.levoleague.com/

Keep your brain warm with think tank events!

Event listings at LinkTank:

http://dc.linktank.com/

Where are they? See if you can hit all 31 and check them off on Foursquare:

Foursquare List

 

 

And when you get hungry…

Eat at one of the 74 DC metro area food trucks (Twitter list)!

Food truck YUM!

 

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Visualize.me and Linkedin: Create a Visualization of Your CV

I recently discovered a tool called Visualize.me that is still in beta (Thank you Alisha) that takes the information from a linkedin account and turns it into… you guessed it, a visualization!

You can check out mine here.

I didn’t mess with the color or design settings too much, though it looks like there’s a fair amount of room for the creative sort. If you create something your are impressed by, either in design or just because you look infinitely hirable, please send it my way!

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Weebly, Squarespace, WordPress, Blogspot, Wix or a Custom Design?

Recently I was asked to put together short recommendations on which platform (or none) was most appropriate for these following webpages:

  1. An internal employee site containing forums, FAQs, training and testing materials, as well as employee bios and location info
  2. A personal blog for the travels and experiences of the CEO (with flashy design and content)
  3. The national company’s landing page including investor and trading information

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Overview: (Sample)

+ Lots of control over content and appearance through an editor anyone can use (No Web Design experience necessary).

+ Integrated with personal e-mail, form management, maps, upload and downloadable filespace, individual registration, FAQ etc.

- Pricing: $240-$432/yr (Business)

Good for: Internal Employee site

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Overview: (Sample 1) (Sample 2)

+ Infinite control over design through templates or direct HTML/CSS editing

+ Free or Less than $150/yr

+ Supports multiple accounts with varying levels of access

- CMS is not intuitive to new users

- Design editing requires knowledge of code

Good for: CEO Blog, Internal Employee site, National webpage

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Overview: (Sample)

+ Drag and drop design editing – simple intuitive CMS

+ Can copy and paste design elements (HTML/CSS) to another site whenever desired

- Design possibilities are maxed out quickly with drag and drop

- No ability to differentiate access levels for multiple users

Good for: (none)

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Overview: (Sample)

+ Drag and drop design editing

+ Flash editing allows for truly stunning, simple and elegant designs – infinite possibilities

- Slower loading the more design elements you have

- No ability to differentiate access levels for users

- Difficult to organize SEO so that the website can be found through Google

Good for: CEO Blog – sacrificing some SEO for a stunning visual experience

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Bouldin Coffee, GDI mission day #2

Ringworm! and Girl Develop it! ?

I really wanted to put the poster here… but unlike my last Girl Develop It! flyering mission, I believe that would constitute a #juxtaposition #fail.

An appropriate and open space



So instead the GDI poster went into a convenient and open space about 6ft up the wall. My boyfriend pointed out that this steep placement might be construed as “heightist”, but, considering that the alternative was to associate GDI with easily transmissible parasite, I chose to make the majority of women crane their necks. My apologies in advance to all of you 5’4″ and under.

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Girl Develop It! Austin, TX

Juxtaposition win!

So, I’m flyering for Girl Develop It!’s HTML/CSS class here in Austin and my first destination is Jo’s. As you can see by the lovely example to your left, I’m also shamelessly pandering to the similarities between Live Nude Improv (no pictures allowed) and learning how to use HTML/CSS. They’re both SEXY!

I first learned of GDI while living in New York City and was pleased to be a part of their HTML/CSS class there. An anonymous donor provided all of the students with a copy of “Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML“, which is a phenomenal book I would recommend to anyone learning these things for the first, or even the third time.

Free books!

It’s an amazing group of women and an great opportunity to learn how to ‘hands-on’ design your own WordPress or Tumblr site. Girl Develop It! (GDI) Austin, Texas chapter is offering an HTML/CSS class for the upcoming two weekends. Their meetup group is still accepting sign-ups to attend. GO!

 

 

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Guest post with ACCION USA and Main Street Microfinance

Although this post was written last year, the subject matter remains pertinent for today’s job seekers.

Read more…

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How to add a Google tracking code to your WordPress website

Before you get started let’s make sure you are in the right place.

  • Are you trying to add a Google Analytics tracking code to your site? (Yes)
  • Are you using WordPress? (Yes)
  • Does your web address contain .wordpress in the address? i.e. http://monkey.wordpress.com (No)

What You Need to Succeed:

1. Your website’s address.

http://mysiteislocatedhere.com

2. The username and password you used to sign up with the hosting company (for example: WordPress or Bluehost, or DreamHost or MediaTemple or whomever). If you don’t know your username and password, search your e-mail for messages from your hosting company, they will generally send you a reminder e-mail containing this information.

username: johndoe

password:one23one23

3. Download and install Filezilla (This will enable you to upload Google’s tracking code to your website).

 

Adding the Tracking Code:

1.    Go to Google Webmaster Central and login.

2.   Choose Add a Site and type in your web address (http//mysiteislocatedhere.com)

3.   You should then see this screen below

4.    Click Download This HTML file (!make sure you know where your downloads are saved to!)

5.    Open Filezilla – (see below)

Your host name is your website address. The http:// is replaced with a ftp://

http://mysiteislocatedhere.com ——> input ftp://mysiteislocatedhere.com

Your username and password were supplied (or chosen) during your host signup process. Input them here

The connection port is 21. Enter the number 21 into the supplied field.

ftp://mysiteislocatedhere.com

username

password

21

6.   Input your host, username, password and port information and click Quickconnect.If you received the message “Directory Listing Successful” then you have connected with your Website’s computer. CONGRATULATIONS!

7.    Now that your computer and your website’s computer are talking, you need to find the Google tracking code on your own computer. Mine was downloaded into my “Downloads” folder (how handy is that).

8.    Find the folder on your website’s computer that is called “public_html” and open

9.    Find the folder on your website’s computer called “wp-content” and open

10.   Find the folder called “themes” and open

You’re almost there! These folders that appear after you open the “themes” folder are the themes you have downloaded for WordPress that dictate your website’s style. You need to open the folder of the theme you are currently using.

!       If you don’t know which theme you are currently using go to your website and scroll all the way down. In the bottom right-hand corner next to the “wordpress” stamp there should also be something announcing what theme you’re using.  !      Another method is to look at which theme folder was updated most recently. You can do this by clicking the “last modified” button in the box above. Folders will then be arranged in the order they were last loaded.

11.   Now that you know where your Google tracking code is on your personal computer and you have opened the folder of your current theme, all you have to do is drag and drop the file. Click on the file and hold, now drag your mouse over to the “website’s computer” side of Filezilla. Make sure you don’t release your click over a folder icon or the file will end up in the wrong place.

12.   Return to the Google verification page and click verify

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Armchair Travel

So much of the experience of travel is based on prior knowledge. You travel to the country you know to enjoy the activity you have heard of or seen on TV. But what if you want to blaze a completely new trail? What if you want to visit the destinations that are not advertised, that are not commercially recognized? How do you find those treasures?

 

Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

MapCrunch provides you with random access to Google Maps’ collection of street view images. You can pick a country to explore, or just click the “go” button to be transported to a random destination. This is a particularly effective method of exploration if you are particular to those destinations that are paved. These images were collected by a specially adapted fleet of Google vehicles (in some cases tricycles) that were fitted with 9 way directional cameras to collect the raw image of every few feet of roadside. (More information)

 

Flickr Related Tag Browser allows you to search their worldwide database of images with a series of tags. So, if you have discovered from wandering the streets of MapCrunch that you really like the looks of the east coast of South Africa and you know you particularly enjoy bird watching while on vacation, type in “South Africa, birds”.

 

HAENA BEACH, KAUAI, HAWAII

Microsoft’s Photosynth is a free app available on various smartphone platforms. People are able to take 360 pictures of anywhere in the world and upload them to the website for others to view and enjoy. These images are not edited in photoshop and are taken by everyday locals and travelers (as opposed to professional photographers). You get the real deal with these images.

 

If you have any other suggestions for armchair travelers, please add your comments below.

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Interview with Wandrian Adventures

Wandrian Adventures recently interviewed me for their blog

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Building Real World Relationships with Twitter and Linkedin

I have recently found twitter and Linkedin so useful in creating real-world relationships in the business world, so here is the knowledge I have accumulated. Start with a company with which you currently have a vibrant and mutually beneficial business relationship, the sort of success you would like to clone. For example…

Eastern Mountain Sports twitterA partner 

There are two ways to go about this, depending on the sort of partners you are looking for.

“Outdoor living” tweet feed 

Find your partner’s twitter page and see if they have a number in the “listed” category at the top right. In this case Eastern MNTN Sports has been added to 259 lists. These lists have been compiled by other twitter users and generally group similar companies into tweet feeds as seen on the left. Take advantage of the grouping and organizing that other people have already done – it’s like having a twitter secretary!

If you are interested in partnerships with companies that are not necessarily this similar to one another, check out who your partner “follows”.

Eastern Mountain Sports is following… 

In this case Eastern Mountain Sports follows 1,663 individuals and companies. Whew! That’s a long list! One of the first individuals is Amanda Wormann, the Social Media Manager of Burton Snowboards. Oh, perfect! We would love to work with Burton! Now you can use Google to search for her specifically. Type in “Amanda Wormann Linkedin” to Google.

 

The first result is exactly what we want, her Linkedin account.

You can see where she has worked, what her interests are and what events she has attended over the past few months. Great! You can now send her an e-mail directly through Linkedin (if you have an upgraded account), you can search for her contact information via Facebook or through Burton’s directory, or you can message or mention her on twitter.

You can be this direct if you are looking for a contact point in a well known organization OR you can use this same method to connect with less known companies that also might make good partners. Referring back to the “Following” image for EMS, the second result was Rhodyfitness, a Rhode Island fitness company. You can now search for that company directly through Google to get their contact information.

It is important to use these methods in a professional and non-spammy way. Tailor your e-mails for the individual you are contacting and thoroughly research the company in question before you try to make contact. If you do not show respect and appreciation for what their company does, they will not be interested in working with you.

Have you found other ways to use Social Media as a way to increase partnerships and relationships for your business? Please comment!

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