[Nfb-editors] New Chairperson, Newsletter Publication Committee

[Tom Scanlan]

Here is the information for NFB of Minnesota that Robert requested.

We strive to publish quarterly, generally get at least three out.  By far my 
biggest problem is getting the president (current and previous) to write by 
deadline.

We publish in braille (9%), CD (11%), Email notice as follows (21%), 
14-point print (52%), and cassette (7%).

We do not publish information that appears in the Braille Monitor.  We 
ensure that every member receives the Monitor in the form they want by 
adding them to the Monitor list when they join and sending address changes 
as we receive them.

The Winter 2011 issue of the Minnesota Bulletin is now available on the NFB 
of Minnesota website www.nfbmn.org

You can use the following link to go directly to it: 
www.nfbmn.org/bulletins/w11.htm.

The audio edition that is distributed on tape and compact disk is also 
available on the website as a zipped file containing individual MP3 files 
for each of the articles in the issue.  The direct link to that file is 
www.nfbmn.org/bulletins/audio.zip.

Happy reading.

Tom Scanlan, Editor
Minnesota Bulletin
National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "editors nfb" <nfb-editors at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:02 PM
Subject: [Nfb-editors] New Chairperson, Newsletter Publication Committee


> Dear Editors Mailing List members
>
> RE: New Newsletter Publication Committee Chairperson, me
>
>
>
> Yesterday I received a call from DR. Maurer. He asked if I would be 
> willing
> to take over the Chair for the Newsletter Publication committee. And after 
> a
> short conversation, I accepted. HURRAY FOR ME! Now --- I admit, I am not 
> an
> editor like some people I know who are super at "editing." (I tend to need
> editing.) However I am into the power of the written word and the near
> worship of "the art of communication," air go publication. Preaching to 
> the
> choir now --- changing what it means to be blind is, in a super large 
> part,
> all about communication. Communication starts with our membership, from
> there we work at getting what we know as the truth of blindness out to the
> rest of the world.
>
>
>
> Immediately, I want to work on two big goals:
>
>
>
> -Goal #1 To make more meaningful use of this list: first for sharing our
> work. Second, as a helpful forum to find technical advice and general
> support.
>
>
>
> *Request #1- From now on I want every newsletter to be posted to this list
> for everyone's benefit: first- Each of us will benefit from viewing your
> product. Second- In the light of sharing our work, some of us will want to
> use an article that you have published (crediting it back to its source).
> (We are working together to change what it means to be blind.)
>
>
>
> *Request #2- If you are the editor of an affiliate's newsletter, please 
> make
> yourself known to me. If you would, post that information to this list ---
> I'll grab your information and it will be good for others here to know you
> are present. (In the subject line write- "'Your state's name' Newsletter
> Editor"
>
>
>
> And/or --- if you are the editor of a chapter or national newsletter, 
> please
> do the same as above. Let us give a "face-on-it" to what we have on this
> list.
>
>
>
> *Request #3- What are your thoughts and needs? What can the Newsletter
> committee do for you?
>
>
>
> -goal #2 To encourage those affiliates who now do not have a newsletter, 
> to
> create and maintain one.
>
>
>
> Earlier today, I had a message sent out to all affiliate presidents making 
> 3
> simple requests: #1 If you have a newsletter, put me in contact with that
> editor. #2 If you do not have a newsletter, let's talk about it (implying
> assistance in the creation of one). #3 In Orlando, there will be a
> Newsletter Publication committee meeting and I need a rep from each state 
> to
> be present.
>
>
>
> --Enough for now. I am striving for messages to this list to be helpful 
> and
> not to promote unnecessary traffic (we are all busy people). As best
> practice, make your subject lines specific to your post.
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
>
> President, Omaha Chapter NFB
>
> President, NFB Writers' Division
>
> Division Website
>
> <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
>
> Chairperson, Newsletter Publication Committee
>
> Personal Website-
>
> <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>
>
>
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