Job-a-matic

Nominate Job-a-matic as Best Site for Publishers!

Greetings Job-a-matic® publishers!

We need your help! Mashable, a leading blog about social media and Web 2.0 news, has opened up nominations for their annual Open Web Awards, and we’d like to get as many votes as possible for Simply Hired's Job-a-matic platform in the Best Site for Publishers category.

It’s easy to nominate Job-a-matic! All you need is a Twitter or Facebook account, and to follow these simple instructions.

1. Visit the Best Site for Publishers nomination form at http://mashable.com/owa/votes/category/48?c=48
2. Click on either the Twitter or Facebook button (or both!) to sign into your respective account. (Note: By signing into your Facebook account, you have the option to post or not to post your nomination to your profile.)
3. In the gray box at the top of the nominations page, enter www.jobamatic.com into the "Nominate" field and make sure "Best Site for Publishers" is selected in the drop down.
4. Click the "submit & tweet" button to send in your vote!

Each person is allowed to vote once per account, per day (that equates to two votes per person each day!). But hurry, nominations end Sunday, November 15th!

Let's show Job-a-matic some love!

Happy Birthday Job-a-matic!

January 24th marked Job-a-matic’s 2nd birthday, and it is has grown leaps and bounds since its beginning. Job-a-matic is now the largest hosted job board service, with over 5,000 registered accounts. Job-a-matic has brought millions of jobs to people all over the web—from large sites such as USNews.com to niche sites like Ruby Inside (a site dedicated to Ruby and Rails developers), Mashable (a popular technology blog), Web Strategy by Jeremiah (for those interested in Web Strategy), and Women 2.0 (a site for women entrepreneurs). It has brought a little extra cash to publishers, too.  

Those are some big accomplishments for a toddler!

Lunch 2.007 at Simply Hired - Epilogue

Wow. We didn't realize we had so many friends. We know everyone came just to see us, and that the free Indian food, free water pistols, tie-dye activities & four-square games had no influence on your decision.

A big thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon. We hope you enjoyed yourself, a left with a full belly, and empty squirtgun.

Check out the event photos on Flickr: Lunch 2.0 at Simply Hired.

Attended the event? Please tag your Flickr photos "simplyhired" & "lunch20" and they will show up in the above search set.

Have a happy Fourth everyone!

TypePad Integration

Cue the fanfare. We’ve officially partnered with SixApart, the people behind TypePad, to provide you with job board integration that’s quick, easy, and good-lookin'!

If you are the proud owner of a TypePad blog, you can now import the look and feel directly into your Job-a-Matic job board.  We’ve also made it oh-so easy to install a custom job board widget on your TypePad blog.

How to import your TypePad theme into Job-a-matic:

Go to your Job-a-matic dashboard. Select "configuration," and then "header and footer." From here, you can import the design theme from your TypePad site and further gussy up your site’s header and footer.

Now you’ve got that timeless, smart, shoes-match-the-handbag thing going. So professional, so effortlessly hip. (Caveat: if you have a really funky, super-advanced template, our best effort to match your site might not pan out...)

How to install our job board widget on your TypePad blog:

Go to your dashboard and select the "promote" tab and "create widget." Set the number of postings, and choose from our fancy-pants pre-defined color schemes (ooh! Aaahhh!) or get a Plain Jane widget, on which you can work your own CSS style-mojo. From there, it’s one click to install into your TypePad blog.

Even Dorothy had to click three times, so we think this is pretty darned efficient. Happy blogging!

Off topic: Office Pranks Contest

As loyal users of Job-a-matic, we wanted to take a break in your regular programming schedule to let you know that we have relaunched our humorous sister site, Simply Fired! 

Based on user feedback, we have added some cool community features that will make your time spent on Simply Fired fun and interactive, like voting, photos, videos and commenting. 

And since we can’t have a relaunch without a contest, without further delay…we present….The Prankies: The 2007 Office Prank Awards!  The inaugural Prankies allows you to submit stories, photos, and videos of your best Office Pranks for all the world to see!   

And since you know that we run a first class operation, it should come as no surprise that we have enlisted some top talent celebs to judge your submissions: 

• Comedians Andrew Dice Clay and Tom Papa
• Star of TV and the film Fired! Annabelle Gurwitch
• Writer for the Fox show “Til Death,” Vijal Patel
• Author of The Cubicle Survival Guide, James Thompson. 

As if you needed any more reasons, the prizes will be up to the usual Simply Fired standards—including a limited edition Simply Fired shirt that you can only get here. 

So what are you waiting for? Get your prank on!

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600 publishers and climbing!

Drum roll, please.  In Job-a-matic's first month, we've signed up over 600 bloggers and web publishers!  And we're just getting started...

From the official press release:

"We have received an overwhelming response from bloggers and web publishers in every imaginable niche -- from technology to healthcare and lifestyle categories," stated Simply Hired CEO Gautam Godhwani. "It is refreshing to see how quickly people are getting their job sites set up, getting jobs posted and starting to make money, offering a valuable new service to their readers."