The Demotix Blog
The Demotix Blog
Demotix is growing fast.
We're looking for a weekend publishing person to help us grow even faster, to join our growing team and to work through all the extraordinary stories you're sending in.
The position is long-term. We're looking for a native English speaker, articulate and quick, with great writing skills and a great eye for photographs, to help us cover the heavy workload on weekends.
We want someone who understands what we stand for and can really grow with us.
The job entails:
Our servers are currently under massive strain. Record breaking month after record breaking month is taking its toll, and May is already looking to be our biggest to date (it’s only the 10th for crying out loud!)
All this means a large scale server upgrade is long overdue, and we’re all over it like a rash!
As of today, we have a CDN enabled: so when you’re viewing pages on Demotix the images you see are not coming all the way from London, but from a server much closer to you. This will both speed up your viewing experience as well as reduce the load on our current servers.
As usual it’s been another manic month in the world of Demotix sales!
The end of the first quarter always presents a challenge, especially when it follows a year that saw a phenomenal increase in clients and revenue. I'm glad to say we have succeeded in passing the new targets and objectives we set ourselves for this quarter at the start of the year.
Graduation day at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women's University - Owais Islam Ali
Two of the leading forces in social journalism have joined forces to create an unique real-time newswire.
Today we're happy to announce that Turkhan Karimov has recently seen his work published by Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF)' German division in their yearly publication Fotos für die Pressefreiheit (Photos for Press Freedom).
Page 18 of this year's issue of Photos for Press Freedom
Hazrid is a Syrian entrepreneur and activist. He lives in one of the larger cities in Syria, where he is part of the revolution’s tech team. Hazrid isn’t a real name but a nom de guerre pulled from the world of HP Lovecraft – Abdul Alhazred is the imaginary ‘Mad Arab’ author of the Kitab al-Azif – and Hazrid himself has much of that dark Lovecraftian humour. I interviewed him over Skype a few days ago.
Demotix has recently been growing incredibly fast.
That's obviously a hugely good, positive thing - we couldn't be happier to have so many more amazing citizen photojournalists from all over the world on board. However, it does mean that we're doing a lot more work with the same number of full-time team members supporting so many new contributors.
Today on the blog, I've got an announcement that (for once) I hope will make at least a few of you a bit sad!
It's been the best part of a year for me working at Demotix, and it's been an amazing experience getting to know many of you from all over the world, helping you get your journalism out there, and learning how to use all the various tools we have at our disposal here.
Demotix is growing fast.
We're looking for a dynamic, inspiring marketing person to help us grow even faster.
The position is part-time, but long-term. We want someone who understands what we stand for and can really grow with us.
We need you to:
- reach out to new communities (South America, the US, videojournalism, etc...)
- Teach us how to talk with our existing 30,000-strong family inside Demotix
- bathe in our site Analytics to implement its secrets
- inspire our designs, split-test our assumptions
