Professional
development opportunity!
By
Catherine Robinson, Managing
Editor
Are you looking for a professional development opportunity? You might want to consider becoming the next newsletter editor.
We're looking for a new editor for the 2004-2005 publishing season of Signature. If you are interested contact us at: stcsignature@yahoo.com.
Putting together the newsletter this year has been a team project. We--the newsletter staff and contributors (you!)--along with much help from the Council, have continued to publish an excellent newsletter and add value to our chapter's membership.
As editor, I gained professionally as I learned new skills, worked with a varied group of individuals, and became part if a decision-making process serving a superb membership. All this has given me considerable personal satisfaction. However, there are other areas of personal and professional growth I must now pursue.
Therefore, the position of Editor of Signature for 2004-2005 is open.
Here's a list of activities the next editor will perform:
- Recruit authors, editors, and proofreaders
- Determine, communicate, and manage schedules
- Assign articles to writers
- Determine layout
- Create linked HTML from articles
- Create PDF of the newsletter
- Upload files to the Web site
- Accept advertising copy and add to pages
Additionally, the following skills will be in demand:
- Organizational skills
- Time management skills
- People skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to judge appropriateness of content
- Design and layout skills (unless you team up with someone with those skills)
Do you see yourself?
If you would like to be the next editor of Signature and enjoy considerable professional growth, contact me at stcsignature@yahoo.com or crobi0902@cox.net. I look forward to hearing from you.
