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Hola Editors!

Just a reminder: Cara, Caren and I will be in the Front Room from 4 - 6 tomorrow to meet with you guys one on one.

First off, be sure to bring the names of people already on your staff and their contact information. Also, make sure you have a good idea of what you want your section to be - you may even want to write up a brief (like a short paragraph) description of your main section and each little sub-section.

We are going to try and come up with your "official" positions. Cara and I want to have a system in place that will allow for people to move up ranks over the years - become editors and managing editors, etc. In order for us to do that we have to have something in writing about your position responsibilities and future requirements for that position. (Don't worry too much about this, we'll talk to you about it in person).

Also, have a pretty good idea of your "update schedule" (when you will be adding new content). This will help us schedule a weekly editors meeting for after we go live with the site. Don't forget to bring with you any story ideas you have and of course any questions or comments!

See you all tomorrow,

Katie

Purely for the stylebook.....

We are planning to follow AP Style except:

Ohio University - OU on second reference


-Can our writers work for other publications? We have to make this clear.

Timeline:

3/10 - First run design completed

3/11 - Submissions for all pages due to Katie/Cara/Caren

3/14 - 3/18 - Finals

3/19 - 3/27 - Spring Break

3/29 - 4/3 - Hard-core pre-launch ad campaign

4/1 - Final (pre-launch) submissions for all pages due to Katie/Cara/Caren

4/1 - 4/3 - Freak out time

4/4 - LAUNCH DATE!

4/4 - 4/8 - Hard-core post-launch campaign

4/8 - ? - Slower-paced continued ad campaign

>Impressive: 25 staff! Yes, I'd be glad to help. I've put it on my
>calendar. Although that's a large group, it may be small enough to
>try some role playing. I'll need two volunteers who are willing to
>answer some personal questions for that. Maybe you could find me a
>couple of willing souls.


Where do you meet?

ptw

Hi Ellen (+ ad team),

Sorry I didn't get this email to you last night. In terms of what we need: definitely we will need people to chalk sidewalks and classroom chalkboards as soon as we get back from spring break. It would also be nice to have a banner (even if it says "Pepsi") to hang across College Gate, and will also need to schedule with student activities that we be allowed to do that. Painting the grafitti wall is a great idea, and we should probably look at doing that on Wednesday, March 30. Once again, we are looking at a launch date of April 4. Posting fliers and handing out little handbills would probably also be effective... but, I would say that since I really don't know that much about advertising, I would leave it up to you all to plan the campaign and just get approval from either me or Katie. We're totally open to any suggestions you would have, but publicity is important. The first week of traffic to the site will make it or break it. I can probably get one of my friends at The Post to do a write up on what we are doing, and hopefully we will have money from SAC to buy Post ads. I can tell you at a later date whether we get funding for that, and what sizes those ads will be. Suggest to whoever is interested to come to our meeting on Feb. 15, which will probably again be in Baker 327 at 6:10 p.m. (Tuesday). After that, they can have a feel for it and see if they need to come to any future meetings.

In terms of a contact person, I nominate you :) But, please, fields any questions (no matter how silly they seem!) to me, Katie, or Caren and we'll try to find you an answer!

Thanks so much for your help.

Sincerely,
Cara McCoy

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