Passion. Creativity. Social Media. Entrepreneurship. Video Production. Conversations. Lots of friends. Connections. Marketing. Big ideas. Fun.

If any or all of these words apply to you, and if you are looking to be involved in a start-up project in which you will: work with fun people, be encouraged and expected to think outside the box, reach out to Hoyas across time zones and generations, gain unique leadership/startup experience, use technology to connect, and give back to the Georgetown community, then we want YOU to be a part of the Georgetown Blog Hub (cool name under construction) Team.

Hopefully we’ve pulled you in, so now let us describe our project:

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:

Friends and marketing buds Laura Sortwell and Jessica Lioon are currently in the process of starting a blog hub for the Georgetown community. Basically, we envision a website that rolls in blogs from various students and alumni and organizes them into different categories based on their content. We hope to create a place where current and graduated Hoyas can share their interests with the greater Georgetown community, connect and reconnect with each other, and have the intellectual-but-fun conversations that might normally occur over a coffee in Midnight Mug or a pitcher at the Tombs.

The site will be extremely user-friendly and will include various forms of content. So, for example, you could roll in your blog teaching English in Japan or about personal development, your photos of NYC that you take every week as a hobby, the blog for your salad/yogurt restaurant business that you started, your commentary on the Republican party, the pictures from your last Hoya soccer game, your monthly video interviews with people in the entertainment industry, news and information about a club or group fundraiser/event, your fashion picks of the week etc, etc. This blog hub is a great way for us to promote ourselves and one another as Hoyas, and to see the various interesting activities, thoughts, and talents of the Georgetown family all in one place.

Our main goal is to build a strong network of Georgetown Hoyas. Networking is about making connections and building enduring relationships, and we believe that this blog is the best place to start building this community, online and eventually offline as well. We want to create a forum in which Hoyas can share their ideas, show their expertise on trends and topics in various industries, facilitate discussion, seek new career opportunities, establish business contacts, develop knowledge resources, showcase their work, seek advice, and meet other alumni/students with similar interests.

We are looking for people to roll in their blogs if they already have them, and we are also planning to get Hoyas who don’t have blogs to be inspired to start blogging and roll them into our site. Anyone can write/podcast/post video or photo on any topic as long as it has a consistent focus and corresponds to our mission (which will be very broad, and which we will develop once we have a solid team put together). Blogging is really easy to do, a small time commitment and the media of the future, and we believe that connecting Hoyas through this medium will be the start of a closer, more inspired and vibrant Hoya family.

BUILDING A TEAM – DETAILS:

In building a team, we are looking for people who want to be fully committed to this project. (Obviously, we all have a lot of stuff to do, but we would hope that if you join our team, you would consider this to be in your top 2 extracurricular activities as far as commitment and dedication goes.)

We are seeking three leaders to be in charge of the different aspects of the project. We are seeking especially committed and organized people who would like to carryout this project in years to come;

• Technology Leader
• Outreach Leader
• Lead Editor/Editing Coordinator

Beyond the leaders:

Technology – We need at least one other technology person (HTML and Flash capabilities would be great, programming abilities would be awesome, also a good troubleshooter to help bloggers with technical problems)

Outreach - We need 3-5 additional outreach people to help us find people that are blogging and also encourage new people to blog and help them get started. Outreach members should LOVE people and be very outgoing, patient but persistent, and not afraid to talk to people and make connections. This is essentially the sales force of our idea and the team that will make our project get off the ground.

Editors - We need 2-3 additional editors to monitor content and to possibly help bloggers come up with content if they are having trouble.

All team members will be help us get the project off the ground, helping us in our next big tasks of:

• coming up with a cool name
• defining our vision and detailed mission/values for the site
• getting the actual site up and running
• more solidly defining team members’ roles and responsibilities

If you are interested please email us at georgetownbloghub@gmail.com with a photograph of yourself and your resume and fill out the application below.

Thanks!

Jessica Lioon and Laura Sortwell