Signature
opportunities announced
By
Catherine Robinson, Managing
Editor
If you find value in the Signature newsletter, consider contributing articles. We need feature articles, advice, technical workarounds for problems you have encountered, and some plain old helpful tips.
If you want to improve your writing skills, contribute articles. You will have the opportunity to work with our great copyeditors who can give you pointers and help you improve your skills.
Contact us at: stcsignature@yahoo.com.
Ever since I started in my role as managing editor of the Signature newsletter, I've sharpened a lot of my skills, some of which I didn't realize I had. I have learned a lot about the newsletter production files, including how to create HTM pages and convert those pages into PDF format. I have also had the wonderful opportunity of working with contributors, copyeditors, and proofreaders and made new contacts with members while I answered inquiries about the newsletter.
As I move into each new month of this year's publication schedule, I feel that I need to give others the opportunity to learn and help with the newsletter in any way they see fit.
This month I would like to announce two openings with the newsletter in the area of creating and maintaining the newsletter pages/files in HTM format. This entails receiving the monthly articles, including the monthly columns, book reviews, general announcements, and advertising, and then creating, reusing, and maintaining the newsletter pages with Macromedia's DreamWeaver Web tool (which, by the way, is provided to you free of charge by the chapter).
While working with DreamWeaver, I have become very familiar with the newsletter files; however, I've not been able to give the newsletter quite the polished look that it needs when it comes to creating great tables (when applicable) or working with alignment, especially the newsletter introductory page (the infamous index HTM page). I sometimes find myself so busy with answering email, updating schedules, and contacting people that I end up neglecting properly maintaining the newsletter files. If I could give this opportunity to at least two people to either share monthly input of articles or swap the duties every other month, I think the newsletter could be maintained more appropriately.
If you think you are interested in working on the newsletter HTM files/pages and creating Web pages with DreamWeaver, please contact me at stcsignature@yahoo.com. Ideally, you could learn the ropes as this season continues to unfold and continue to sharpen your skills in the upcoming publishing year. Please contact me and let me know if you are interested in such an opportunity. This could be your chance to learn while contributing to your chapter newsletter. I hope you will consider this opportunity, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
