[Editors] MIT Editors' Club Minutes, Oct. 2011

[Elizabeth A Thomson]

MIT EDITORS' CLUB

*Meeting Notes from October 18, 2011*

The people at MIT Editors' Club meetings always seem to bring up Useful Stuff related to MIT communications, but this meeting seemed to generate more contributions than usual. A sampling:


*MIT Style Guide*

Does the Institute have an editorial style guide? There is no official guide for MIT as a whole, but two departments (Resource Development and Reference Publications) have developed their own. You can access their guides through the MIT Communicators Toolkit at 
<http://commtoolkit.mit.edu/resources/writing>.

And while you're there, explore the Toolkit's other editorial goodies. (Several of the attendees at this meeting recommended the site.)


*Resource Development Communications*

The Resource Development Office of Communications is looking for a graphic designer. For more on this position, go to:

https://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2581204&sn=L&cd=&si=0


*Publishing Services Bureau*

Ba--ra, where were you? We needed you at this meeting for another update on the Publishing Services Bureau (PSB). Seriously, I think everyone knows by now that the PSB is closing as part of a restructuring. It will be replaced by a new entity--Communication Productions Services (CPS)--to support the Institute’s communications project needs.  The CPS will bring together Copy Technology Centers (CopyTech) and our reference publications efforts.  Bara Blender (bblender at mit.edu, 258-9367) is Interim Team Lead of the PSB during this transition; please contact her with any questions.


*Training Training Training*

Does MIT offer any courses on Drupal (a content management system for web sites)? No-one at this meeting knew for sure, so someone suggested a great alternative: Lynda.com. We've discussed this site before, but it's well worth re-mentioning. It's packed with tutorials about techie communications stuff ranging from web design to iPhoto. And, it's free for MIT employees. Simply go to:

<http://ist.mit.edu/services/training/lynda>.

I did a quick search and found six different courses on Drupal, plus brand-new courses on a variety of topics including InDesign and Google+.


*Thank You!*

Many thanks to Paul Rivenberg, who hosted this meeting at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. 


*Next Meetings*

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

Wednesday, November 9
W98-302 (Resource Development)

Monday, December 5
66-360 (Chemical Engineering)


Cheers,

Elizabeth
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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
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