[Nfb-editors] [NFB-editors] How to?

[Darian Smith]

Thank you very much! 
 
 I’m curious as to how long affiliate newsletters tend to be?
 Thanks,
  Darian  
 
On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> Gary:
> 
> I *love* Tom's ploy. Hafta remember that one.
> 
> As for articles, sometimes the editor has to ghost-write an article for
> someone else he/she has asked for an article which hasn't arrived. Two or
> three times at this and one hopes the errant article-writer can be shamed
> into writing what has been promised himself/herself. However, since shame
> seems to be a vanishing commodity these days, one must set strict limits to
> this sort of thing.
> 
> The NFB of Washington does not have a newsletter for just this reason: I
> refuse to play that game.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-editors [mailto:nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Wunder, Gary
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:32 AM
> To: Correspondence Committee Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-editors] [NFB-editors] How to?
> 
> Hello, Darian. I was once the editor of the Blind Missourian, and I now
> watch as the current editor tries to come up with material. Often she
> encourages people to make submissions, and they all agree they will. When
> the deadline is at hand, she asks once again, but normally what she gets is
> minimal compared with what she has been promised.
> 
> I don't think that doing the job of producing a statewide newsletter has to
> be a job done only by one person, but my experience suggests that it is a
> job done mostly by one person. You do have to chase articles. You do have to
> write member biographies if you want them. Since your reputation belongs to
> you, you can't let it depend on what others say they will do or what you
> hope they will do or what you know they are perfectly capable of doing and
> should do.
> 
> My friend Tom Stevens was once the editor of our newsletter. He asked for
> articles, begged for articles, and, when he found that he was short of them,
> decided he was going to keep his promise about a quarterly newsletter and
> produced one. It's lead article was on the hazards of smoking. This was
> about a decade after the Surgeon General's report and the topic was quite
> controversial. Smokers didn't want to hear in their NFB newsletter about
> their vice of choice. They legitimately asked why we were spending money
> raised to help the blind with material unrelated to the struggle. Tom was
> unrepentant. "I asked you for material, you promised it to me, and you
> didn't deliver. I did the best I could. If you don't like what you see,
> please know that I will gladly replace it with what you write, but, until
> then, I'm going to keep our schedule."
> 
> Through this list you have tremendous resources that Tom Stevens never had
> in looking to fill our newsletter. We publicly say that anything we write is
> free for using in other Federation publications. Put out your newsletter. If
> people complain that it is lacking in original content, say something like
> Tom Stevens said. Try not to let your reputation, your integrity, and your
> ability to keep a promise be determined by others. Give folks a newsletter,
> and let them make it different if they want to make a contribution. Have fun
> at your writing, your reading, your preparation, and your good feeling when
> you realize that something you have edited hits the streets.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-editors [mailto:nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Darian Smith
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 8:52 PM
> To: Correspondence Committee Mailing List
> Subject: [Nfb-editors] How to?
> 
> Hello  All,
> 
> As affiliate newsletter editors, how much of the work that you do is done
> only by you?   Are there situations where you call upon others to help you
> put together the newsletter? do you have committees? that help you do the
> work? how do you end  up  Collecting the submissions you get? how much
> chasing do you do to make sure you get articles for   folks?
> I'm  giving a go at putting together my affiliate's newsletter and these
> pointers are very helpful.
>   Thanks,
>  Darian    
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