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My Big Announcement

I have wonderful news! I have been offered and have accepted my dream job. :o) I have been offered and accepted the position as the one and only digital archivist for Disney Online at the Disney Internet Group in Los Angeles, California. :o) They flew me out last weekend and I met with about 10 creative managers and directors early in the week and it went very well! Aside from being absolutely in love with the sunshine and palm trees, the staff was amazing--they are a very creative and tech savvy group and I've been told their decision was unanimous that they want me to join the team. WDIG is already quite large and getting bigger by the day in both content and staff, so the archive unit will probably grow quickly after I get them set up for a couple of years. The websites include Disney.com, ABC.com, ABCnews.com, ESPN.com, FamilyFun.com, etc. They haven't had an archivist in about 3 years and never a digital archivist--been a long time searching. It's going to be a huge job to do, but I'm super excited about the prospects--I came into grad school saying that this is what I wanted to do when I graduated and now I finally got it. :o) I just did some salary negotiation today and my tentative start date is May 28. Just in time for summer! :o) Other than that, my final semester of grad school is winding down--I walk in the official grad school ceremonies on Friday 4/27 and then to see Bill Clinton give the commencement address on Saturday 4/28.

Posted by maryaw at April 16, 2007 07:44 PM

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Posted by: tomdong@gmail.com at April 16, 2007 10:27 PM

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