[Editors] MIT Editors' Club Minutes, January 2011

[Elizabeth A Thomson]

MIT EDITORS' CLUB

*Meeting Notes from January, 2011*

*Campus Newsletters: Paper or Electronic?*

And the answer is....both! Patsy Sampson of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science brought along several issues of her most recent newsletter, which sparked several discussions on the general subject of their production, writing, and more. Patsy reports that since bringing the newsletter online, she's been able to cut the print run from about 18,000 to a little over 5,000. Plus, the overall cost of printing and production has dropped to about 6K from a little over 17K.

That said, she and others agreed that there is still very much a need for paper copies of a newsletter, which are used as hand-outs to potential donors, prospective students, etc.

Also related to newsletters, Emily Ranken of the Environment, Health, and Safety Office asked the group if it was ok to send MIT newsletters to the MIT Editors' Club listserv. The resounding answer: that's fine. We all know how to hit the delete key if the subject is one we're not interested in. 

>From there, we segued into chatting about some of our personal favorites among MIT newsletters. They include the SHASS (humanities arts and social sciences) newsletter (http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/jan_11) produced by Emily Hiestand, which we DO receive through the Editors' listserve, and the newsletter for the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (http://lidsmag.lids.mit.edu/2010/) produced by Michael Lewy, Rachel VanCott, and Jennifer Donovan.

*MIT Open House*

The MIT 150 Open House is coming up April 30, and many Editors are involved in planning Open House events for their departments/labs. Melanie Miller of chemical engineering had no experience with developing such events, so she attended a recent workshop held by the Cambridge Science Festival on the topic. The workshop was GREAT, she reports. Attached are the slides (thanks, Melanie!).

Emily Ranken noted that her department-- the Environment, Health, and Safety Office--has compiled guidelines for keeping events safe. Go to: (http://ehs.mit.edu/site/content/event-safety-guidelines).
 
Thank You, Carol!*

Many thanks to Carol Breen of physics, who hosted this meeting in Building 4.

*Next Meetings*
The next meetings of MIT Editors' Club, which are always from 12-1 but in different locations around campus, are as follows:

Thursday, Feb. 24
NE48-3027 (Tech TV)

Wednesday, March 9
W98-302 (Resource Development)

Tuesday, April 12
NW17-218, 175 Albany St. (Plasma Science and Fusion Center)


Stay warm and dry everyone,

Elizabeth
=========================
Elizabeth A. Thomson
Associate Director of Communications
MIT Resource Development
Office of Communications
600 Memorial Dr., W98-300
617-258-5563, 857-756-9457
<thomson at mit.edu>, giving.mit.edu
=========================
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2011CSF-IAP(reduced).pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 3179419 bytes
Desc: 2011CSF-IAP(reduced).pdf
Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/editors/attachments/20110204/ef98dcf8/attachment.pdf