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Website participation - Aug 22 and 24

8/17/2016

 
What: 5th Website Meeting: Invitation to Participate
When: August 22 and 24, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Where: B Building - Craft Room
Who: Residents interested in being Contributors or Bloggers for The Gardens Gazette



Agenda
  • Invitation to participate as new contributor or blogger
  • Q&A and demonstrations
  • Schedule individualized training sessions
  • Schedule next orientation meeting

​

Goal: To encourage resident participation in developing The Gardens Gazette into a valued resource that benefits everyone. This will be done through orientation presentations and through face-to-face training in small groups designed for one of three levels: beginner, intermediate, or advance.

We are developing a training program to take people from basics, to intermediate, to advanced. Each person can set their own pace and get individual help.

To schedule individualized training sessions, contact John Walling in person or using the site Contact form and indicate which type of training you are interested in: 
Beginner Contributor, Intermediate Blogger, or Advance Editor.




There are three levels of training, starting with basics.

Contributor training: (Beginner level)
* How to use the  Submission form on the website plus a style guide. 
* One 30-minute training session submitting files for test or publication. 
* Contributors have approval rights for changes and the editorial team has approval rights for publishing.
* Contributors can contribute to blogs without blogger training. (See blogs directory.)


After your are comfortable as a Contributor, you can advance to Blogger.

Blogger training: (Intermediate level)
* How to keep a dedicated blog up-to-date.
* Two 45-minute training sessions plus recommended reading on Weebly.
* Training will include setting up a Weebly website for blog practice.
* The editorial team reserves approval rights for publishing blog posts.
* Look at blogs directory to see if one of them fits your interest or suggest a different kind of blog.

After you are comfortable as a Blogger, you can advance to a site Editor.

Editor training: (Advanced level)
* How to edit submissions for publication. 
* Three 45-minute training sessions plus commitment to attend scheduled editorial meetings.
* Training will include setting up a Weebly website for edit practice plus recommended reading on Weebly.

For those interested in learning advanced topics:

A good place to start learning how to use Weebly as a website blogger or editor are these 3 help sections at https://hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us
  * The Essentials
  * Build
  * Blogging
Youtube has these useful tutorials for Weebly
  * Introduction tutorial (18m) 
  * Beginner's Guide (1h3m) 
  * Layouts, templates, page structure (9m) 

Website Meeting - Monday August 15

8/11/2016

 
What: 4th Website Committee Meeting
When: Monday August 15, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Where: B Building - Craft Room
Who: Contributors and editors for The Gardens Gazette

All residents are welcome to attend website meetings.

Agenda
  • Discussion:
    • Website Mission Statement - where to put on website
    • Contributor Style Guides (Word template in development)
    • Editor Style Guides (Need to adopt accessibility best practices.)
    • Timeline: What are the milestones for website general release?
  • Define: Workflow steps and processes:
    • 1. Contributor submits via online form <=== testing
      • We will use Diane's opinion piece for case study
    • 2. Submission received, categorized or flagged
    • 3. Editor(s) assigned to submission by lead editor
    • 4. Editor contacts Contributor to review process
    • 5. Submission reviews completed by editors
    • 6. Submission edits completed by editors
    • 7. Submission approved and scheduled by lead editor (or returned for edits)
    • 8. Site administrator assists with posting submission
    • 9. Submission published (Blogs: comments are open, closed or require approval and categories are added.) 
    • 10. Out-of-date submissions removed and archived
  • To do: Add editor accounts with test pages (4 editor accounts so far)
  • To do: Schedule 2nd training session for editors
    • Improve Slack participation for team communication
  • To do: Schedule next meeting: Monday Aug-22nd 2 PM
  • Adjourn
  • After meeting: For those who bring laptops, assist with accessing website editor accounts.

Moonlight Enchantment - Sat Aug 13

8/5/2016

 
You are invited to
"Moonlight Enchantment"
Arrowhead Gardens 2016 Senior Prom
​Saturday, August 13th - 5:30 to 10:00 PM
Buidling B Community Room
  • ​Please sign up in the Activities Book so we can make sure to get enough self-serve finger food
  • BYOB (beverage) - we'll provide lots of ice and a selection of plastic glassware
  • Join us when we crown the "Prom King" and the "Prom Queen"
  • Fancy dress is not required, but is encourages
  • Wear your dancing shoes or  just sit and listen to the music played by Kami, our favorite DJ

Sponsored by Dave and Pam & Hosted by The Cookhouse Crew

Website Committee Meeting August 8

8/4/2016

 
What: 3rd Website Committee Meeting
When: Monday August 8, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Where: B Building - Craft Room
Who: Contributors and editors for The Gardens Gazette

Agenda
  • How to use Slack for team communication
  • Begin style guide for contributors
  • Begin style guide for website editors
  • Define workflow from contributors to editors to publishing
  • Set up editor accounts with test pages
  • Schedule training for editors
  • Schedule next meeting: 

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