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September 05, 2004
IAFA Newsletter Takes a New Form
At the Executive Board meeting held this summer, the Information Co-ordinator (yours truly) once more shared her tale of woe regarding the IAFA Newsletter.
Aside from all the usual problems with putting together a print newsletter (costs, distribution) there's the problem of getting together enough content within a reasonable time frame. Long story short: there just wasn't enough response to my continued pleas for content to justify printing a hardcopy Newsletter. We needed a way to share news in a timely manner without being bound by the need to make up a certain number of pages by a specific deadline.
So the board talked about how we could still communicate important news to IAFA members while furthering the sense of community that marks the annual conference. David Hartwell recommended that we turn to blogging, and ta da! here we are.
Y'all will need to bear with me over the coming weeks as I get a handle on this cool new (to me) technology. The plan is to post updates for the upcoming conference and announcements, both personal and professional, that IAFA members wish to share. After the annual conference, we'll continue to post conference reports and anecdotes (with pics, once I figure out how to do that) and we'll also post information about other sites, conferences, books, whatever of interest.
Ideas, suggestions, comments as always to cemains at shaw dot ca.
Posted by ChrissieMains at September 5, 2004 06:51 PM