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We Are Hiring: Training Administrator

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The Digital Marketing Institute is Ireland’s leading provider of training and certification in all aspects of online Marketing. Our Organisation is expanding both in Ireland and overseas and we require a Training Administrator.

ROLE: Training Administrator

ROLE DESCRIPTION

  • Co-ordinate all administrative activities for course attendees
  • Telephone and email contact with attendees to complete application, booking and payment process
  • Prepare course materials and folders for students
  • Manage in-class Course Registration
  • Maintain and update course website and Membership database
  • Prepare and compile course marketing materials
  • Issue invoices and follow up on payments
  • Liaise with lecturers on class schedules and database
  • Book travel and accommodation for lecturers
  • Organise and manage training venues


SKILLS REQUIRED

  • Well presented and professional with a flexible approach to work
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to work on own initiative and unsupervised
  • Administrative Experience essential – minimum 2 years
  • Excellent PC skills, particularly Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel, and Word
  • Knowledge of basic HTML very desirable
  • Knowledge of Graphics package very desirable (Photoshop, PaintShopPro etc)
  • Good organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines


THE IDEAL INDIVIDUAL WILL

  • Be an experienced administrator with a minimum of 2 years experience – ideally in a fast paced organisation
  • Have a good level of business acumen, sound common sense and be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in the web industry
  • Be massively driven to succeed, hugely self motivated, be using (on a daily basis) Social Media networks, have a clear grasp of everything online and also be able to administer all of our courses!


LOCATION: Dun Laoghaire – Dublin

HOW TO APPLY:

  • Applications will only be accepted for this role by E-Mail.
  • Please send your CV by email only to ian@digitalmarketinginstitute.ie
  • Please note that at this stage in the process we are not able to take phone calls regarding this position
  • At this time we do not require the service of Recruitment Agencies.
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We are Hiring: Web Project Manager

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Digital Marketing Institute | Ireland’s leading provider of training and certification in all aspects of online Marketing. Our Organisation is expanding both in Ireland and overseas and we require a Web Project Manager.

WebKitchen.ie | Established in 2004, Web Kitchen has fast become one of the leading e-business solution providers in Ireland.

ROLE: Web Project Manager

ROLE DESCRIPTION

WebKitchen.ie & the Digital Marketing Institute.ie currently have a position available for a motivated project manager with the ability to manage multiple clients, programmers and projects simultaneously. As project manager you will handle all client relations for the project. You will develop timelines and manage programmers to see projects from start to completion and ensure client satisfaction.

Responsible for gathering requirements and scoping projects, communicating with client and internal development teams, and overseeing the development or maintenance updates of multiple Web sites and related projects.

You will be required to coordinate Web Development projects in a collaborative and distributed environment with designers, developers, sales team and clients.

You will be responsible for gathering requirements and scoping projects, communicating with client and internal development teams, and overseeing the development of multiple Web sites

Prior hands-on experience with website design and development required.
Eye for detail, intimate familiarity with designing for industry web standards compliant sites, and good time-management abilities are the key for this position.

Strong interpersonal skills required to communicate with clients in order to understand their needs and then to transform conversations to action as it relates to changes to the designs and websites.

The ability to prioritize and multi-task successfully.

SKILLS REQUIRED

Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple assignments are essential qualities necessary for success in this position.

1-3 years experience as a Project Manager

Ability to foster and maintain client relationships as well as multiple projects simultaneously

Online Marketing experience is a plus

Experience in website development

The ideal candidate does not need ot be a programmer but a working Knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, WordPress, FTP, image editing (Photoshop or equivalent) would be a plus

Expected Background

  • Related experience in an online agency or web development company.
  • Project Management experience
  • Experience managing web application development projects
  • Hands-on experience managing multiple projects
  • Excellent communication, written and verbal skills
  • Strong time management skills
  • Highly motivated with keen ability to motivate others on team
  • Skilled in building relationships with clients
  • Good understanding of relevant technologies
  • We seek bright, positive and flexible people who also:
    • Act with the highest integrity and professionalism
    • Take a creative approach to problem solving and strive for the best solution.
    • Proactively seek out opportunities for growth
    • Thrive in a team environment
    • Express a strong interest in learning about our business model and our overall vision

LOCATION: Dunlaoghaire – Dublin

SALARY: Commensurate with Experience

HOW TO APPLY:

  • Applications will only be accepted for this role by E-Mail.
  • Please send your CV by email only to ian@digitalmarketinginstitute.ie
  • Please note that at this stage in the process we are not able to take phone calls regarding this position
  • At this time we do not require the service of Recruitment Agencies.
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How to Create and Upload a Google Sitemap?

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Sitemaps are to Google what maps (or, for example, a car navigation GPS system) are to humans!  The sitemap is one of the first places that Google looks at when it visits a web site.  Google looks for a file called “sitemap.xml” on the root directory (ie home directory) of the web site. The contents of this file explains to the search engine hoe to navigate around the site,  where the links are supppsed to take it and what to expect when it follows a link.

In short, the sitemap is in an simple way for site owners to inform Google and other search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists all of the URLs on a site,  along with additional information about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers would normally find pages from links within the site and from other sites. However, sitemaps supplement this data to allow the search engine crawlers that support Sitemaps to find all of the URLs in the Sitemap.  It allows them to learn about these URLs using the associated metadata.

Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Google and the other search engines highly recommend that you implement Sitemaps on your site.  There are a number  of free sitemap generators available (Google this term).  The one that I use is called XML-Sitemaps.com

You can get more information from Google Supportand of course the ubiquitous Wikipedia

I have found a video (seomwhat out of date but it still applies!), so here you go:

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