Congratulations Noopur! Your work with GLAM in India over the last year has been fantastic, so I can only expect you'll be doing great things in this new role too :-) I'm looking forward to seeing the results of what you'll be doing.
-Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 5 March 2012 15:13, Hisham <his...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > cross-posting; apologies if you have already read this from another list. > > hisham > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: Hisham <his...@wikimedia.org> > > Subject: Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation > (India Program, Communications) > > Date: March 5, 2012 7:19:05 PM GMT+05:30 > > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Cc: Noopur <noopur.ra...@gmail.com> > > > > Dear All, > > > > I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been > selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support > Communications for India Program. > > > > This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support > communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates > (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as > story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, > celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is not for day-to-day > program communications - which is a core part of each of our > responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support > media & PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge > here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community > building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and > also in co-ordination with the India Chapter's Communications Media & PR > team. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social > networks (such as WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of > social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped > potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach > efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to > our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to > become editors using online channels and resources. > > > > Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in > Ahmedabad & Delhi), is a member of Delhi SIG of the Chapter, has > participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month > and has been actively trying to start GLAM in India. > > > > Noopur is from Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNU with a Master's in > Arts & Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, > Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore. She has interned > with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet & Society > (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an > active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has > published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays & short > stories and has co-presented a paper on "Wikiwars" with [User:Srikeit.] > She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons as well > as other platforms. > > > > The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial > call for selection was in September. I reported back to the community in > December that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. > There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken > time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex > role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in > communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our > community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - > because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident > that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm > very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of > communications for our community. > > > > Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be > based in New Delhi. > > > > Best > > > > hisham > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
