STCAUSTIN at BLOGSPOT.COM INVITATION TO POST

[kendall at webpubs.us]

All Chapter Officers and Committees are ENCOURAGED to publish their own
postings.

This invitation went out in 2005 December.

1. Send your email to me requesting to be added as a member to POST to
the Blog. You'll be automatically notified how to respond and get
connected.
2. Have your profile ready to enter: a) A picture, b) Your STC
Contributions/Titles (past to present), c) Your work history, and
d)your CHAPTER GOAL for this year.

Yes, I was trying to keep all new NEWS posted as close to real time as
possible. I do not omit any content. I only edit for style consistency
and readability, while maintaining the Goals of this Newsletter. I
apologize I posted without your formal request. That's my bad and I'll
take it. I didn't know the ADMIN postings were not public knowledge.
Now I know.

Editing Guidelines:
1.Voice: active and use informal tones. Try to stay conversational.
2. Be conscious of your sentence lengths.
3.Click the Save AS DRAFT button, often and call me direct 799-7938 if
you have an immediate concern. I'm glad to assist.
4. Notify me to edit your POSTING, if you WANT to. Otherwise, select the
PUBLISH button.

My goal is to keep this newsletter Dynamic with Live Useable News, "Get
it REAL here" thing. No DEAD DRY NEWS. If this blog becomes
bureaucratic or business-like you will lose PUBLIC interest and my
interest as well.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [stc-austin-admin] Re: Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the
> weblog?
> From: annegentle at austin.rr.com
> Date: Tue, January 10, 2006 2:13 pm
> To: kendall at webpubs.us, Aaron DaMommio <aaron at damommio.com>
> Cc: STC Austin Administrative Discussion List
> <stc-austin-admin at lists.stc.org>
>
> Kendall and all,
> I have an article written as part of a membership drive and I think
> this
> month is the perfect month to post it. If the attachment doesn't work,
> please let me know. (I don't believe the digest format allows the
> attachments to go through, so I'm sending this email directly to
> Kendall's email address in addition to the Admin discussion list.)
>
> A periodic article such as this could be an alternative to posting
> monthly membership reports on the website. Aaron's suggestion is
> closer
> to the type of information a member might want to have, although just
> joining a group shouldn't mean that everyone has access to your email
> address just by visiting a blog page. The scenario I envision is this:
> with the new member's name, an interested STC member can log on to
> stc.org and get their contact info if that person has allowed
> themselves
> to be listed in the member directory. I guess my overall sense is that
> the STC office already has put filters in place for how much private
> info and what type of contact information a member wants to give out,
> and we should ensure those filters remain in place. Does that make
> sense?
>
> In addition, I'm sensitive to my name as a byline due to the fact that
> I
> am a corporate blogger for BMC, and I want to be sure everything on
> the
> Internet is indeed something I wrote for an intended audience. You can
> read my blog at http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-gentle/anne-gentle/. If
> I
> contribute a membership report, I'd like post it myself if that's
> do-able. Otherwise I feel am risking the credibility of my online blog
> authorship. In my mind, it's, well, fake to have Kendall posting on my
> behalf. So, if we come up with a membership report format that is
> appropriate for the blog, I'd like to post it.
>
> Please, let me know if we can use this article on the blog, and send
> me
> edits or corrections if you have them. Kendall, let's talk about
> posting
> this after a review period of this week. I'll send a final version to
> you on Friday (Jan. 13).
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aaron DaMommio <aaron at damommio.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:25 pm
> Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Re: Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the
> weblog?
>
> > Anne,
> > What if, with every membership report, you separated out the first
> > (very
> > short) paragraph of general info, for explicit use in the weblog?
> > And
> > reported the prior month's membership as well?
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> > ===For weblog===
> > In December, the membership increased to 223 from a November total
> > of
> > 213. The STC as a whole has 17176 members.
> > ===For contacting new members====
> > ....e-mail details...
> >
> >
> >
> > annegentle at austin.rr.com wrote:
> >
> > >I definitely don't think it's appropriate to post email addresses
> > to a
> > >public web page such as a blog without asking permission of the
> > address>owners. Nor is it appropriate to repost something that I
> > wrote without
> > >my permission or knowledge. Kendall, I'd like you to remove the
> post,
> > >please. I hope you understand the reasoning here.
> > >
> > >Let me know if you have something else in mind for a membership
> > report>that would be useful to the other members. I think you have
> > a nugget of
> > >an idea here, but I'd like to look at other methods for
> communicating
> > >this type of info to the chapter (and the entire Internet).
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Anne
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Aaron DaMommio <aaron at damommio.com>
> > >Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:27 pm
> > >Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the weblog?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hey, I hope Kendall and Anne won't feel picked on about this one,
> > >>but I
> > >>just saw the post on the weblog  re: the membership report from
> > >>Anne
> > >>(yea! 223 members!) and I don't think we should include new
> > >>members'
> > >>e-mail addresses in the weblog in that manner. I think it was
> > >>appropriate for the admin list, but not for a weblog, where spam
> > >>bots
> > >>could collect their e-mails. So I think we should make it a
> > policy
> > >>not
> > >>to list them that way. What do you think, Kendall? I bet you just
> > >>wanted
> > >>to share Anne's news with all and sundry, but this problem
> > occurred
> > >>to
> > >>me when I saw the post.
> > >>
> > >>If we do decide to include them, then I think we should modify
> > them
> > >>(put
> > >>them in the form name AT server.com rather than name at server.com)
> > so
> > >>that
> > >>they are not automatically detected by e-mail harvesters.).
> > >>
> > >>--Aaron
> > >>
> > >>
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