September 08, 2004
For LiveJournal users
Sonia Ana Miller provides the following information for LiveJournal users who want to add the IAFA Newsletter blog to their flist.
For those interested, the IAFA blog is also available on LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com) as a syndicated feed for anyone who wants to add it to their own friends list. Go here, and click on the provided link to add it to your friends list.
Posted by ChrissieMains at 09:30 PM | Comments (0)
September 06, 2004
So You Want to Contribute?
Maybe you've got something to share with other IAFA members -- a story about ICFA or another conference you've attended, a brief review of a book or website you think would be of interest, some cool stuff going on in your personal or professional life you want to share with ICFA friends -- just send me the content and I'll post it here.
Once the bugs are ironed out and the site is running smoothly, I'd like to expand the editorial team; if you've got the time and, preferably, some posting experience with Blogger, LiveJournal, or something similar, let me know.
Better yet, you've got some experience blogging or using Movable Type or playing around with coding, and you can help me fix the wonky stuff. I'd really, really, really love to hear from you.
Contact the Editor by emailing cemains at shaw.ca.
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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 06:51 PM | Comments (0)