In recent days, a very smart marketing campaign has just started on the Internet. To promote the paradise islands of the Great Barrier Reef, the Office of Tourism Queensland, Australia launched an international offering a job as any of us would like to win: keeper of a desert island! With responsibilities minimized pleasant and cons of a salary $ 150,000 AUD (€ 78,000) for a contract of six months commencing on 1 July, the lucky winner agrees to take care of the island, and most importantly, to communicate about his life on the island.
Constraints? ... Here they are: raking leaves floating on the pool at the only hotel in Hamilton Island, accompanied by the postal service fly for a day to enjoy an aerial view of all the inhabited islands of the Great Barrier Reef, s ensure good health and good diversity of 1500 species of native fish places (snorkeling, and maybe scuba diving? ...), explore, observe, enjoy, enjoy daily life on an island in sun. I almost forgot the most painful duty to tell on a blog several times a week every detail of your life in Australia to inform the whole world in an international buzz effect particularly well thought! ...
Small detail enticing: you can come with your spouse (e) or your family ...
It sounds like a joke? At one of these illnesses spread over the internet regularly? ...
If you are dynamic, creative, at ease in your relationships with the media, you have until February 22, 2009 to apply online on the website www.islandreefjob.com managed by the serious tourist office represented Queensland Australia by 13 other offices around the world. A shortlist of 50 candidates will be made between 2 and 24 March, then a final selection of 11 candidates will be announced April 2. Candidates will be interviewed on a few islands in the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) between March 3 and May 5 and the name of the lucky winner will be announced May 6 that he is in office on July 1. A well-oiled organization ...
To apply, is very simple: record a video 60 seconds to introduce yourself, show some knowledge on the theme of islands in the Great Barrier Reef and all the enthusiasm and willingness that you will show to convince Office of Tourism Queensland, but also Internet users, who choose the top 50 candidates. And put this movie online. The contest is being run from January 9, and entries will close on February 22. Many candidates are already online, Romania, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Sharpen your English and be convincing!
That said, if this contest on the theme "the best job in the world" is officially in finding a "gatekeeper" for Hamilton Island, you will understand without difficulty that this will mostly be the primary caretaker calling on all islands of the Great barrier, and this for six months, through a blog posted to this effect: the goal for the Australian Tourist Board is not to find a pool cleaner, but rather the candidate to talk about Islands on the Internet (and in other media) for the coming year: the competition started on January 9, the winner will begin July 1 and will serve until the end of the year. An innovative operation in terms of communication (and the beginning of a global economic crisis), which I am sure, will talk about it all year.
Moreover, within six days the site has already posted several times a day saturated, and AFP has reported the information that runs on the World Wide Web faster than the political scandal over the crisp! Forget the father of the child of Rachida Dati and therefore will regale you with images of Australian islands, you will not lose your time and will dream a little more!
Congratulations to the Office of Australian tourist! ...
But you, you could try (e) by this type of experience? Would you walk among the islands of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, with spouse and children for six months with the only constraint to tell your life to millions of readers? ...
I confess to being tempted ... And then my son is already there! ...
Who would not pay (and many more) to blog in the sun, it's tempting, beautiful buzz operations.
I am a lawyer that I have less chance of being selected because no big trading site!
But it's dream and I think especially since you have all the qualities to make the guardian of the premises and in particular to write again and again to make us dream. And the cherry on the cake I will come see you, am sure that friends will flock and suddenly the island will be much less deserted ... ... .... AC makes you want!
Hello! I am not a lawyer but I dive CHAUQ time I can and I will like to see what you could write about diving in Australia pendatn 6months! Australia is a dream for a diver, so if you go I will come back to read you every day! LOL
Your stories are always beautiful diving Marie-Ange we got in there and you still further with you. So in Australia or elsewhere, I'm sure you bring all your readers with you.
Besides, why not do the same thing elsewhere in Australia? Like when ut lived on Mauritius or Reunion?
Thank you to Facebook makes me discover your blog and your photos! Congratulations on a job ....
Finally, a blonde who speaks something other than his daughter's life!
I heard about this story in Australia, it goes around the world. And I say that if you go, I'll come good with you ...
That looks like a job tailor made for you
This article makes my mouth water just thinking about it ... I'm not saying this should be easy every day to live on a small island, away from everybody. ... But it's an experience to live, without a doubt! and for such a salary, I would charge!
If you need someone to make underwater photos for your blog, do not hesitate, I would be happy to share your island
Hello. I looked at the site of Australia showing the game and there are already many candidates, I think the English have + chance to win a French although I have no doubt that your English is better than mine
I find it just weird that nobody other than Australia still thought there was this kind of communication! Read every day as a tourist we can make his life on the island paradise is always dreaming. If you're chosen, it will tell us!
Bonen luck
It's really a dream job ... you should be otherwise well, since your articles, always well-written dream about your readers. Please continue to write and let us discover and share emotions over your travels. Encore Bravo!
Go ahead, your articles have really a soul.
But starting in Australia, so why not, but why not elsewhere ....
Promote Islands, finding places yet unknown to large chains that tourism is the future of real tourism.
I knew that this information awaken some anonymous! ... So first of all thank you to the newcomers who spoke on A World Elsewhere. Second, and to respond to each of you:
Denis> be (well) paid to blog under the sun for an international buzz operation is the dream of every blogger right? Linking fame (recognition by the largest number) to the pleasure of work and a dream environment for any diver who respects ... I bet you succeed in convincing Sylvie! ...
A buzz like this makes me think of a (e) mission web-reality show under the floodlights of a web International (tourists) who do anonymous will soon be telling his life's small pleasures and disappointments on a dream island. What do you think?
Sylvie> we must find some food for trading on the Great Barrier Reef, by forcing a little ...
Sub Bordeaux> I have not yet had the opportunity to dive in Australia, but it will without a doubt. But I ask myself a question that some of my readers may perhaps answer: dive the Great Barrier Reef, is it really that interesting? ... There is nothing that looks more like a reef that another reef, especially on the same territory of ecosystem and for six months. Immerse all around Australia would seem more exciting perhaps. What do you think friends divers? ...
Caro> thank you for your vote of confidence, it is a pleasure to read. But when I lived on Mauritius and Reunion, where I practiced already creating some websites, the blog phenomenon was not yet born. Yet the passion for words (and pictures) have inhabited me, and luckily for me I wanted on my computer a diary of my years of expatriation (or offshoring). Some of which I published excerpts on A World Elsewhere, notably as regards Reunion , or my dives and cyclones in Mauritius .
Since Facebook Facebook thank you to bring to A World Elsewhere enthusiastic new readers ...
But I try not to see red when reading the phrase: "Finally a blonde who speaks something other than his daughter's life!"! ... Contrary to what some idiots who persist in confounding all blondes with Paris Hilton who plays the mindless, I remember that the kingdom of clichés exist Barbie brown, red and even African origin! And the French blogosphere is full of "girls" who are not necessarily fair. So yes, I'm blonde. And no, this does not motivate me to talk about sex, fashion or cosmetics on a blog (although I sometimes discuss with my friends like everyone else). Others, blondes or brunettes, do better than I would. My niche to me is travel, photography and scuba diving ...
That being said, thank you for your praise about my work on A World Elsewhere. And promised, if I am selected as a candidate, I will launch a tender if I resolve to take a buddy under the sun!
Helen C> ah my favorite photographer sub! ...
I give you my word that I'll take you as soon as I get the chance, your pictures are always very successful and I want to point out that you just put your site online some of those you come to Mauritius (and I remember the access to your website for those who do not know you yet). Do not miss his photo of jellyfish! ...
But you're right, six months living on a relatively isolated island should not be pleasant all day. This makes me think this film which a friend told me recently, with Tom Hanks, who suddenly finds herself alone on a desert island. A film shot on an island of Fiji ... Some of you have always seen.
Steph92> the flood of online applications is increasing on the registration website for this contest. Most are, indeed, anglophones. But as the purpose of this communication operation is to encourage people to discover the Australian islands, a strictly strategic point of view if I were the Office of Tourism Australia I would choose probably a candidate but an English speaking country not too far away, with economic opportunities for its people to be concerned by such a stay. So, I would select probably an American English (including Canada, Hawaii), to enable millions more Americans to live this phenomenon of identification extremely important for the greater success of this operation ... And from this perspective, Francophones have, I think it less likely.
Another point you raise, not the least interesting: I'm just as surprised as you to see that tour operators / tourist office / airlines and hotel groups have never thought of paying bloggers to create such a communication operation around a destination. But perhaps it would raise a question that tickles journalists: where is the ethics if the author is being paid to write? ... You can maybe get away with saying that a blog author is free to talk about what he wants, whether paid or not, his audience then freely choose to read or not each day. A journalist shall not refuse a press trip to a destination because it is a commonly accepted practice by the profession, but he will accept being paid a high official to write a few pages a month?
Anyway, and whatever the destination, I am absolutely starting lineup for this experiment since it is not information but communication. But ... a journalist must be content to inform or does it also have the right to communicate? ... Great debate regularly leads the blogosphere and has also occurred on A World Elsewhere there are a few months here .
Chantal> I have a few projects on an agenda emerging, I'll keep you posted, promise ...
Luxium> is an Internet addict and constantly attentive to the evolution of media in an age where everything moves at the speed of broadband, I find that media groups have serious financial problems on an international level and advertising starts to make them leap to false to look a little closer to the Internet. It's no secret, and even with some deviations (and legislation to be introduced), the capacity to inform and change the communication reveals other areas still undeveloped or future. Blogs have brought new life to websites providing interactivity with the audience: the author writes, the public reacts, the debate begins. Immediately.
I am totally convinced that in order to communicate, or simply to communicate on a very broad target, the entire trade must now take account of the Internet and its power of impact. A World Elsewhere, however, is the leader (in French) on the theme of the journey is still very far from the hearing that may be general or some other blogs on topics most in vogue (technology, blogs girls ...). Yet if I look at my numbers this month I touched a francophone readership spread across 99 countries and territories (yes, not 100!). That's huge. And no other media can do this paper on a topic as narrow as tourism, among others ...
So if tourism offices, airlines, hotel groups and tour operators could agree on communication campaigns, you readers would no doubt be glad to see the birth of more blogs with rich content as made possible by a more judicious distribution of communication budgets.
No? ...
There you are ideal candidate elected by bloggers that you already refuse
For my part, so no scuba diving offers less attractive ... and much more focused, as you say, to an anglophone. And then, as someone else said, "I'm too old for this shit" 
Too old now?! ... On the contrary, I think you should be in the target cell!
I do not deny I'm just saying that it would probably be a waste of time for a job with the final candidate has probably already been "profiled" and the French (in my opinion) will not enter the home stretch . So I concentrate my efforts on other targets ...
Tell, write. ... Being on this island, I am sure there are many other things to do and see, ....
6 months sabbatical, the dream ...!
Hello Henry
Since the objective of the Office of Tourism Australia is to achieve a global information campaign on the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, I think six months should be already occupied by activity and excitement tours for the winner so that he has actually every day something exciting to tell readers of the blog set up.
The question is whether the candidate will be alone or if he will be accompanied by a spouse and / or children (I think this is the case, to indicate to readers that families are welcome on the Australian islands). And then there is no longer there to stay alone on an island made almost as deserted (or blank).
In my case, I would know anyway to use these six months without being bored for a moment, I have lived on islands (larger is) and I know (somewhat) the pitfalls.
Finally, when it comes to writing (I do not publish 10 or 15 lines per day, just to the presence, but rather to write to share) and to show it is no longer any quite a sabbatical: writing is a profession for many, also photographing. Do not minimize the efforts required to pass a message, argue, demonstrate, persuade. For example, some who know me claim that I have a facility for writing. But who really knows how long I was going to write, read, correct (and sometimes even eliminate altogether to repeat) before publishing? ...
I think that Henry was referring to occupations less literary writing when he speaks off sabhbatique. When one speaks of deserted island alone or two ... .. But agree with other comments: not have to go to Australia to write your life on an island, as long as you do not talk as sunbathing on the beach every day. The place is not necessarily important as long as you make us dream between noon and two! I've got a small preference for the West Indies, but if we talk about them tuv Seychelles or the Maldives, I am not against!
Exactly. I vote for the Maldives first, because I want to leave this year and plunging the bottom I would appreciate some information before. But the Seychelles is not bad either, and not far away. Besides, you could make us both after right? We let you choose which first!
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After the film, advertising for this game worthy of the paradise island Koh TV as The Island ... or the ... It is true that the case is tried for six months. It is also true that if I had no professional occupation and if I mastered the language of Shakespeare ... The very idea of going to dip my palms and my camera might be nice, especially at this price is 78,000 € / month. But in my opinion, it's like a lotto luck (there) in 1 million! )
It felt really good to dream back to your blog, it's been a while since I had not come! Always quality, with wonderful photos.
That is exactly why I have not applied, as you say the French are excluded in advance. And I'm not bilingual enough to blog in English. And then it's a CCD
Rodolfo> then as you surf from the office between noon and two? ...
Welcome to the pages of A World Elsewhere, whatever the hour ...
Caro> Maldives, Seychelles, ... As you go ... I think I would find it difficult to spend six months on the Maldives (islands except the hotel was difficult to access islands inhabited by Maldivians except Mahe, so blogging for 6 months on hotels uh ...). By cons I let try without problem by the Seychelles! ...
Fred> I saw "Australia", a real change of scenery for more than two hours, you can not see through. And then there's Hugh Jackman who would tarnish the image of a little sex symbol George Clooney ...
I corrected your comment: it is € 78,000 for six months, so + / - € 12,000 per month. There are still enough to have fun, I agree ... But I do not know if the French work contracts can be paid by another company for a sabbatical? Is there a (e) HRD bed A World Elsewhere and could tell us about that?
I think we also see this job as a nice springboard for the future: who will be chosen to perform the function of communicating on the islands will benefit Australia for more than six months (if we consider the effect ad before and after snowball CDD) a very large visibility and therefore a strong reputation. No doubt that after a stunt like he (or she) will receive other job offers. And in this perspective, the € 12,000 per month are probably the tip of the iceberg of this contract ...
Denis> I am often asked why I did not write an English version of A World Elsewhere. Being bilingual, write some quick info on products or on the news, I could do without any difficulty. But to write in the style that I use on A World Elsewhere, to translate the nuances, sensations, feelings, it is much more subtle. To convey emotion, it is necessary (in my humble opinion), have been high in both languages, or at least have lived in total immersion for several years in a country (and having lived and had previously spoken of his feelings in English ). This is not my case. So I prefer my "limit" in my native language. Giving life to a text, to sing with the music of words must be almost instinctive, when we handle a foreign language is much less natural, and poetry suffers ...
This is a pity that you have not applied, apart from English, I would have followed your adventures on an Australian island!
hello, my companions and I would ery of interest in this experiences.On is young, dynamic, and adventurous we plaient.
we would be delighted to help you if you allow us to achieve this.
Hi Emily,
This is not me that you should ask because I do not recruit, but directly to the Office of Tourism Australia has launched this operation: http://www.islandreefjob.com
Good luck!