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HELP WANTED! - by Jon Satrum
2008 Skjold News Editor / Lodge Webmaster.
2007 will be my last year as Skjold News Editor and as the webmaster of www.skjoldlodge.com. I've had a lot of fun doing it, but I am having a dickens of a time fitting everything into my life.
Now is a good time to start transitioning others into these roles. If you think you would be a good candidate, contact our President, Gregg LeDuc, or give me a call if you would like to learn more. Here is my take on the profile of a good candidate:
First: In a perfect world, it really works well if one person is both the Editor AND Webmaster, as a lot of the information is used for both purposes. When you learn of something, you can quickly update the website and also use the information for the newsletter for the next issue. But of course each job can be done by a different person.
Second: Knowledge about the lodge and our activities is helpful.
You do not have to live in or near Chicago (Leif Erikson Lodge's editor is in Florida!). A PC, an Internet connection and access to a USPS bulk mailing facility is all you need and, if needed, printing could still be done in Chicago, even if the editor is someplace else.
Look for more about this in the March-April issue where we discuss the software tools we are using. There are also lodges who do their entire newsletter by cutting a pasting items into a master and then photocopy the entire letter. There are lots of possibilities.
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