Reporting to the Chief Business Officer (CBO), and serving as an integral member of the management team, the Marketing & Communications Director will be responsible for the development and execution of BiblioLabs marketing & communication strategy.

Responsibilities

- Develop and implement an integrated strategic communications plan to advance our brand identity; broaden awareness of our programs and priorities.

- Create marketing/public relations strategy that will allow our business leadership to cultivate and enhance meaningful relationships with targeted, high-level external audiences, including the media and key influencers.

- Write collateral materials promoting firms services.

- Develop brand guidelines and ensure consistent adherence to guidelines for all marketing materials and activities.

- Conduct appropriate market research on competitive services and firms.

- Work on corporate intranet and internet site developing and maintaining content, including video/podcast content.

- Create and update collateral, presentations, brochures, product sheets, fact sheets, case studies, white papers, web content, newsletters, signage, ads and sales tools with input from product marketing, product management, executives, sales, PR and customers.

- Create various marketing materials to be used across various media platforms, developing creative concepts for consideration.

- Develop and execute online strategies that include search engine optimization, keyword search, search engine marketing and social media

- Manage the corporate website, search engine marketing and search engine optimization programs

- Create Power Point presentations for sales and management meetings.

- Under the direction of CBO and Vice President, Digital, will receive work assignments based on current campaign plans.

- Work closely with company leadership to develop new campaigns.

- Responsible for art directing, storyboarding and message development for creative design work for various online and offline ads, signage and marketing materials.

- Plan, organize, execute and manage events including tradeshows, customer and partner events, industry events, sales training sessions and other corporate events.

- Identify challenges and emerging issues faced by the organization. Work with leadership team and staff to recognize internal and external communications opportunities and solutions, and define and execute appropriate strategies to support them

- Constantly explore, recommend, use and optimize communication methods, vehicles and technologies to engage with various audiences, particularly as part of fully integrated demand generation campaigns.

Requirements for Applicants

- Minimum 5-7 years experience in a management role either in-house or with an agency

- Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with top tier reporters and editors, and in successfully positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements

- Extensive successful writing and editing experience (externally focused) with a variety of print and online communications media

- Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing a comprehensive strategic communications, media relations, and marketing program to advance an organization’s mission and goals

- Creative and thoughtful on how new media technologies can be utilized

- A minimum of five years experience in planning, writing, editing, and production of newsletters, press releases, annual reports, marketing literature, and other print publications and directories

- Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output

- Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills

- Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers

- Stature, gravitas, and confidence to gain the credibility and respect of business leadership

- Self reliant, good problem solver, results oriented

- Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs

- Excellent and persuasive communicator

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@bibliolabs.com

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BiblioLife Scholarship Promotes Liberal Arts-infused Computer Science; College of Charleston and BiblioLabs prepare to award fourth scholarship this spring

This spring will mark the fourth time an incoming freshman to the College of Charleston has received a free college education because of their passion for software.  Local technology entrepreneurs looking to improve the ability to attract software engineering talent in South Carolina created the BiblioLife Scholarship in 2009. The scholarship, founded by BiblioLabs (Charleston, SC), is a full four-year tuition paid scholarship for rising Freshman declaring an intent to major in Computer Science, Computing for the Arts, or Discovery Informatics. 

“This has been a great learning experience,” says BiblioLabs founder and Chief Business Officer Mitchell Davis (an alumni of the College of Charleston, 1993), “I have been working in technology start-ups for almost twenty years now and I feel very strongly about evangelizing to parents and educators about the digital economy and the options it makes available to young people. There are over 3 million high paying, engaging technology jobs available in the United States right now that are unfilled because there is a lack of skilled talent.”

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BiblioLabs Harvests New Talent; new hires help company move deeper into digital publishing and iPad development space

Charleston, SC based software and media company BiblioLabs has added several new staff to their growing team. The group of Charleston entrepreneurs who founded BiblioLabs, previously developed BookSurge, a print on demand software and services company that was acquired by Amazon.com in 2005.

“BiblioLabs began its operations in a college apartment in 2006 with four employees,” says CEO Andrew Roskill. “Since then, the company has not only hired a large number of new employees, but has been profitable since 2009 and has averaged over 200% annual sales growth since its’ founding. We continue to seek new talent to help us take our business to the next level.”

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The awards highlight the best in e-books, enhanced e-books and book applications in 12 categories, including best children’s e-book, best non-fiction app and best enhanced e-book. The awards are in response to a need to create best-in-class designations. Members of publishing’s elite mingled with cocktails at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York to commemorate the honors. Read more. 

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The British Library 19^th Century Historical Collection App Wins Prestigious Publishing Innovation Award

At the opening of the Digital Book World Conference in New York City on January 23rd, 2012, the British Library, together with technology partner, BiblioLabs, LLC, was awarded the prestigious Publishing Innovation Award (PIA) for their British Library 19^th Century Historical Collection iPad App. The App, released in August last year to rave reviews from both critics and consumers, offers seamless, cloud-based access to more than 45,000 historical works from the British Library, spanning 21 thematic collections.

The Publishing Innovation Awards were established to honor outstanding digital products that enrich and delight readers. The British Library 19^th Century Historical Collection App was named the 2012 Winner in the Reference/Academic category.

Accepting the award, Simon Bell, Head of Strategic Partnership and Licensing at the British Library said “The British Library is delighted to be working with the outstanding team of technologists at BiblioLabs to unlock the potential of devices like the iPad. We are thrilled to have been able to offer these exquisite, high-resolution, full-color facsimiles of 19^th Century books in a manner that comes close to the experience of leafing through the original item. This is a great example of how the British Library is using digital technology to make the riches of our historical collections accessible and compelling to a wider audience than was ever previously possible.”

BiblioLabs, LLC (www.bibliolabs.com) is the fast growing software-media company that built the cloud-based technology platform to manage the selection, enhancement, and distribution of the featured British Library collection. BiblioLabs, LLC has become a global leader in the creation of interactive Apps featuring historical books and artifacts from the world’s leading libraries and cultural institutions.

The Company only recently moved into digital book distribution. It began in 2007 as a print-on-demand (POD) publisher offering historical reproductions. Prior to founding BiblioLabs, LLC the same group started BookSurge, LLC the world’s first truly global POD (one book at a time) retail infrastructure, which was sold to Amazon.com in 2005 and was integrated to become Amazon’s global print-on-demand solution as well as the Amazon self-publishing service CreateSpace.

“The exciting thing for us is that this is the first App we created and we did it with a very small team, in a very short time,” says BiblioLabs founder and Chief Business Officer Mitchell Davis. “It met with phenomenal success as a consumer product when it launched and it has continued to grow” (today it has over 350,000 users in over 150 countries and growing).

“To also have our innovative approach to content distribution recognized by the industry is really an honor and a signal to the great things you will see from us.” Davis added “The British Library is an ideal partner. They care deeply about their materials, and the public they serve.  They are continuously looking for ways to innovate and increase the impact of their services. Working with them is a true partnership.”

Building on the things they learned this past year, BiblioLabs, LLC will roll out a larger App in April 2012 - BiblioBoard. “Tens of millions of historical artifacts are available and our mission is to curate the interesting, quirky, important, weird, or forgotten, then integrate creative modern context and make engaging thematic content products. BiblioBoard is the unified interface where curators will meet readers and this will happen across tens of thousands of books, articles and images within hundreds of curated niche Apps.”  We invite you to sign up at BiblioBoard.com to be notified about the upcoming release of BiblioBoard and to receive 3 FEE content apps from the British Library upon download. 

At launch BiblioBoard will contain more than forty niche Apps including a number of micro-collections from the British Library.  “Our team is hugely excited that as we are winning this award we are already moving to the next generation product.” Davis says.

Check out the complete list of winners of this year’s Publishing Innovation Award.

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Visit www.BiblioLife.com to find more information.

Visit www.BiblioBoard.com to find more information.

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“The Victorian Christmas app will take readers back to an era when families gathered in front of the fire after dinner to tell stories, act out comic pantomimes, and sing songs in celebration of the holiday season.“

November 30, 2011

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