As most of you know, my task at the National is editing the daily newsletter. For the last few years Glen Peckett has been my Assistant Editor, but he's changing jobs to join the "Ents Tech" team. So I'm looking for a replacement Assistant Editor.
WHAT DOES THE JOB INVOLVE? Alternating bouts (taking up most of the day) of sitting in a porta-cabin working at a computer, with walking the site looking for news & gossip. taking photos & whatever. Past experience shows that the Beer Tent is an excellent source of news. WHEN ARE YOU NEEDED? Obviously we need to start before the Festival. Issue 1 comes out on the Thursday to be given to boaters & campers as they arrive. That means we have to write it on the Wednesday, which in turn means the office needs to be set up on the Tuesday. The last day of the Festival you can be free, as the last issue goes out that morning. Unless you want to help me with the Monday-night-in-the-bar limited edition spoof issue. Mandy Morley will take charge of the photocopier, and has offered to do some typing for us as well. In addition, in the evenings we have a team who take charge of the folding and bundling of the printed copies. Once the Festival gets going we're not usually short of volunteers for this, but on the first few days your help would be useful. If necessary, we could offer you our spare berth on Felis Catus III for the pre-Festival days, but I'm afraid it's promised to somebody else during the actual Festival. WHAT SKILLS ETC DO YOU NEED? The ability to write decent, readable, chatty English is the first requirement. Some knowledge of desk-top-publishing would be extremely useful, We use PageMaker. If you've not used DTP software before, I could show you the basics and do the tricky bits myself. If you've used another DTP program, you'll probably pick up PageMaker quite easily. If you could bring your own Windows lap-top that would be useful. Failing that we might be able to borrow one. (Glen?) Ditto for a digital camera. Glen has offered to continue with the technical back-up such as networking the computers and printers. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? A lot of hard work, but it's mostly enjoyable, except when something goes wrong, which happens rarely nowadays, partly because we've used the same photocopier supplier for quite a few years now and he knows what we need and is around to help. The Editor has been known to put his hand into his pocket and buy a round of drinks from time to time. IF THAT DOESN'T TAKE YOUR FANCY then we also need a team of people each morning from the Thursday to do our delivery runs. There are a lot of boats & campers coming this year, so we'll need a big team. ALL OFFERS WILL BE VERY WELCOME. -- Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk mobile 07850 665102 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
