Category Archives: *IheartPGH.com Updates

Share Your 3 Favorite Nonprofits #GivingTuesday

giving-tuesdayToday, Tuesday, December 3, is #GivingTuesday.  (If you are reading this via our email updates, you wont get this until Wednesday – but keep reading – all of the information is still relevant).

I have been thinking about GivingTuesday for the past week.  The blog The Motherhood (which happens to be based in Pittsburgh) had a post last week about the 12 days of giving leading up to GivingTuesday.

This is the 2nd annual #GivingTuesday – the idea is to have a national day that promotes giving as a follow up to Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  While GivingTuesday hasn’t quite yet gained the popularity of CyberMonday, I think it is an idea worth sharing. Continue reading →

Help Wanted

Recruitment

Recruitment (Photo credits: www.mydoorsign.com)

Do you love Pittsburgh? Do you love to tell stories? Are you interested in getting involved with a loveable crew of misfits searching for some new talent? We’re looking for some new writers and entrepreneurs to get involved with the IheartPGH family. Think you have what it takes? Check out what we’re looking for below.

Storytellers– Are you a writer, podcaster, photographer, or videographer interested in telling the story of Pittsburgh and its amazing people? We need outgoing creative types to help us fill the site with inspirational stories found everyday in Pittsburgh. We’re interested in different mediums to tell stories, so if you feel compelled to tell a tale, shoot us an email.

Entrepreneur/Brand Manager- Are you interested in helping manage an established brand? Are you perhaps an aspiring entrepreneur looking for experience in a start up? IheartPGH would love to chat with you. We’re seeking a passionate person to help on the business end of IheartPGH, with an interest in Brand Management and possibly editorial aspirations.

Nuts and Bolts Stuff. IheartPGH would be happy to take on students looking for internship experience as well as Pittsburgh enthusiasts interested in becoming more involved in the city. I came to IheartPGH looking to cover interesting people and events, and have been grateful since Day 1. There is room for innovation as well as personal creativity–an excellent experience for self starters.

Want to get involved? Shoot Lindsay an email Lindsay@iheartpgh.com, including your name, favorite blog (besides IheartPGH), and what you’d like to help us out with. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

All Aboard – 2 Weeks to Get Some Pittsburghers on the Millennials Train

mtp-logoIf you follow IheartPGH on Facebook and Twitter you may have noticed that I’ve been linking to the Millennial Trains Project.

The Millennial Trains Project is a cross country train trip this August that will start in San Francisco and end in Washington, DC.  The train will stop in 10 cities over 10 days.  The Millennial Trains project was founded by Patrick Dowd (not the Pittsburgh city councilman Patrick Down) who helped to organize a similar project, Jagriti Yatra, when he was a Fulbright scholar in India.

The inaugural journey of the Millennial Trains project will be stopping in Pittsburgh!

The route of the inaugural Millennial Trains Project trip

The route of the inaugural Millennial Trains Project trip

The Millennial Trains project has put together a beautiful video that describes the trip which is worth two minutes of your time and can be watched here.  To get a seat on the train, passengers must create a project and use the Millennial Trains Project’s custom crowd-funding platform (kind of like Kickstarter or Indiegogo), CrowdHitch to raise $5000.

I think we need to make sure that Pittsburgh is represented on this train!  I’ve created a project and I would love to see some other Pittsburgh folks create a project and get a seat on the train.

Get on board

If you are interested I would be happy to help you with your project and your application.  Please drop me an email lindsay – at -IheartPGH.com

Check out my project – The United States of Pittsburgh

The United States of Pittsburgh will explore what the Pittsburgh folk who left town are doing now and we’re going to build a big bad directory of Pittsburgh businesses across the US.  There are many more Pittsburgh places than those listed on Steeler Bar directories.

I’ve just added some awesome perks – I am honored to have the support of some of my favorite Pittsburghers in supporting this project.

Here are some of the “perks” I’ve put together for this project and more are on the way.  If you are a local business and would like to contribute to the perks please drop me an email lindsay-at-IheartPGH.com

A Postcard from Pittsburgh – let someone know that Pittsburgh misses them.

  • $7 – I’ll send a Pittsburgh postcard to the person you choose 

Pittsburgh Love – we’re offering a few of our favorite items, all will be printed with love by our friends at Commonwealth Press

  • $25 – The Heart of PA T-shirt One of our best selling t-shirts – the state of PA with a heart right in the most important location 

Printing Party at Commonwealth Press

  • $100 – Come on down and print your own Pittsburgh gear with our friends at Commonwealth Press.  We’ll provide the t-shirts and some beer. Commonwealth Press will teach you about screen printing and you’ll screen print your own t-shirts. We’ll pick a date/time that works for everyone.

Social Media Consulting – I’ve worked with both local and national business to help strategize and grow their online presence.  I’d love to help you with your project and I’m offering a super discount on my usual rate to folks who support my Millennial Trains Project.

  • $40 – 1 Hour of Social Media Consulting ($100 value)
  • $75 – 2 Hours of Social Media Consulting ($200 value)
  • $125 – 5 hours of Social Media Consulting ($500 value)
  • $200 – 10 hours of Social Media Consulting ($1000 value)
Here are some additional articles about the Millennial Train Project:

Are You Still Looking for A Summer Internship? Writers, Designers and Developers Wanted!

internship

internship (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

Are you from the Pittsburgh area, and love it? Are you interested in writing/blogging, social media, photography and other multimedia tools and using them in a way to connect people in the Pittsburgh area and share what’s happening in the city? Come contribute to IheartPGH and make this summer the opportunity you want it to be by providing fresh ideas to IheartPGH and BlogLocal.

Here is some more detail about what we are looking for from Writers, Designers and Developers:

  • Writers: We’re looking for contributors to join the team that are enthusiastic about Pittsburgh and everything the community has to offer to help IheartPGH to continue to grow our content.  We’re open to new ideas and are looking for ways to innovate and expand even more.  We are also looking for writers to contribute content about local blogs and blogging for Blog.BlogLocal.net.
    • Shop Pittsburgh Blogger – Like shopping? Like local businesses – then this is the position for you!  We’re looking for someone to start and manage a weekly column about local shops in Pittsburgh.
    • BlogLocal – Sports Blog Scout – Do you eat, breath and sleep sports? We are looking for someone to help us find the best sports blogs in Pittsburgh and beyond and to write a weekly column interviewing and highlighting the best in sports blogging.
    • Events Blogger – Do you like to check out local events?  We’re looking for a blogger who will write at least one post a week about an upcoming event and then write a follow up post highlighting an event from the previous week.
    • BlogLocal – Fashion Blog Scout – are you a fan of fashion?  Help us scour the web for the best local fashion blogs and write a weekly profile of the most stylish fashion bloggers.
    • 88 Neighborhoods Scout – We are looking for a blogger to help us plan out a series of posts that visits all 88 neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh
    • VotePGH Project Manager  – we’re working on a project to increase awareness about upcoming elections.  If you love social media and civic engagement – this is the job for you.
    • Pittsburgh Podcaster – we’re thinking of starting a Pittsburgh podcast and we’re looking for the right person to help us turn this idea into an audio reality.
    • Editor – Are you ready to step up and take charge of one of Pittsburgh’s oldest blogs?  We’d like to find someone to help take IheartPGH to the next level.  If you are interested in managing a motley crew of Pittsburgh lovers and want to take charge of an ever changing editorial calendar – this is the position for you.  (Editor must be available for Summer and Fall)
  • Designers: Do you hate cluttered websites?  Do you dream of ridding the world of popup boxes and flash websites? Do you hate when you visit a website and music starts blaring at you?  Then we should talk.  We’re looking for webdesigners who want to make IheartPGH and BlogLocal awesome.  If you want to gain some experience taking an okay looking wordpress blog to awesome – then we would love to have you join our team.
  • Developer: We’re looking for a developer who really REALLY really loves local and wants to help make BlogLocal an awesome tool for finding the best local blogs anywhere in the US.  (A stipend or equity is available for the right person – we want to find someone that gets BlogLocal and is eager to make the idea better).

This is a great opportunity to expand your skill and knowledge in writing, social media use, and especially online and offline networking. Plus this is a great opportunity to have some freedom to express your own ideas and really make the most of this position and what you get out of it.

About Working With Us:

We’ve been blogging about the burgh on IheartPGH for almost 8 years and we love it.  Last year we launched BlogLocal to make it easier to find and discover local blogs.  We have met a ton of great people around Pittsburgh and beyond through blogging.  We are looking for interns who are eager to use these online platforms to expand their offline networks. We want to help you learn about writing for online publications and how to successfully use social media to build a brand.  Our past interns have been hired by some of the top design firms and brands in the Pittsburgh area.  Oh and we’ll get you free tickets to lots of events.

Dates, Times and Locations:

Internship dates can be flexible – but we are open to interns year round.  We ask that you be able to commit a minimum of 3 months with 3 days per week to be in the office located in East Liberty.

Whats In It For You:

Internships are unpaid, we are happy to help you get school credit.  We will help you love Pittsburgh, meet and interview some of the most interesting Pittsburghers, and build your social media skills (yes you know how to use Twitter but do you know how to use Twitter to build a brand?).  Our past interns have gone on to work for some of the coolest companies in Pittsburgh likes Dicks Sports and KDKA.

How to Apply:

We used to have a fancy pants application form – but we would rather hear from you!  Send an email to lindsay@iheartpgh.com with the following information:

  • your name
  • which position or position(s) you would be interested
  • your favorite blog about Pittsburgh other than IheartPGH
  • what you would like to get out of a writing internship

Ravenstal Hearts PGH – Meet Our New Editor

We are pleased to announce that we have recruited a new editor to take over IheartPGH – this will be an exciting new chapter for both IheartPGH and our new editor who will begin blogging this summer and take over IheartPGH full time in 2014.

Please welcome Luke Ravenstahl as the newest contributor to IheartPGH.  Luke brings a wealth of knowledge about Pittsburgh and local government to the position.  We are looking forward to reading his posts about exciting developments in Pittsburgh, the inner workings of local government and hopefully, a few restaurant reviews, too. You can follow @LukeLovesPGH on Twitter for updates.

We asked Luke for a statement about his new position and his press secretary responded with the following “I am  looking forward to joining the IheartPGH team and I think this will be an excellent way for me to continue to promote the City of Pittsburgh! I’d like to wish everyone in the city of Pittsburgh a happy April Fools Day, please celebrate responsibly.”