Open CSS Staff Positions

[Erika]

Our community is a year old and like any great community there are always areas where we can improve. I have come up with a list of new open positions that are open to anyone to apply for. For some of them if you want to join on as partners that’s fine.

If you are interested in these positions understand that I expect you to be a self-starter and require little direction on what to do (other than in the beginning.) You’ll receive new status as a CSS Staff Member and will be entirely responsible for your particular duty. I’m not interested in people applying who flake out after a month – so please only apply if you’re willing to put the time into it. These positions are highly specialized so I recommend that you only apply for one of them. I’ve offered suggestions below on what the position would entail, but truly it’s up to the person who takes the position to make it his/her own – enthusiasm and creativity are encouraged.



1) Fanfic Archivist Have a possible recruit.

Here at CSS we have a lovely easy to use and read from Fanfic Archive. We are looking for someone who would like to be in charge of keeping it updated with recent fics. This simply means contacting our fellow writers and suggesting they post them there. If they are confused with the process, you would assist them by helping them to figure out how to upload their fics.

If you wanted to go that extra mile of heading out onto the web and inviting other great non-CSS fic writers to contribute – that would be great too…maybe they would want to join CSS as well The Fanfic Archivist would also post quarterly polls for members to select fics of the month that will be highlighted on our main website.

Finally – I’d like for us to have a full author listing for the site that our archivist would maintain and update so that readers can have one place to pick/find fics! This list would also be posted on our main website also.

Since this individual would be working in the adult fanfic area as well – the volunteer must be over 17 years in age.

2) Fanart Archivist

we’re looking for someone who’s willing to keep our Fanart Gallery updated. Members have to sign up to have their work added to the gallery. Your job as the archivist will be to upload their works to the gallery, or upload anything that the artist’s upload themselves. For prolific artists, gather all of their art by type (avatars, banners, etc) and zip them up and forward them to myself and I’ll add batch add the files. Knowledge of Coppermine is a bonus but not a requirement.

I’d like for our site to have ‘artists of the month’ who we spotlight on our main website, the Fanart archivist would be in charge of setting up polls or figuring out ways for us to determine who that artist would be. Perhaps the art archivist could create an archived list of our artists as well.

3) Fan Video Archivist

This individual would assist our forum members to upload/backup their works into the CSS Video Channel - members can goto THIS THREAD to learn about the video channel.

As the archivist you can upload videos for our members yourself, including embedding videos that are already published on Youtube. The benefit of loading the videos directly onto Magnify – they aren’t heavily monitored like Youtube and you don’t have to worry about your vids being pulled.

I’d like to add a Fan Video artist of the month to our main website. Our video archivist would be in charge of the polls to determine who each selection will be.

We would also like an archived list, like for the fanfic area where we can list out all of our different fanvideo artists so that casual browsers can easily locate them.

4) CSS Podcast

Don’t ask me the particulars on how this would work because I don't have the technical know-how, BUT if anyone here would be interested in creating a podcast for our site, it would be A GREAT way for our community to get some exposure AND a great way to spread the LOTS love out onto the internet! If this was done after each new episode or every couple of episodes we will happily highlight them on our main website and on Mulitpleverses!

5)Multipleverses LOTS Episode Reviewer -

I did these once in a while last year, but now that I’m fully maintaining our communty’s main website, I don’t have time to write full episode reviews. If anyone is interested, please PM me a sample. If you are selected I’ll set you up with logins for MV and give you the basics on how to post on Wordpress (if you post on Livejournal – you can post on MV.) This is your opportunity to share a positive view of the show onto the internet and become a published writer! Reviews do not have to be long but they should have substance to them. Please look over my season 1 episode reviews for examples of what I’m looking for – again the reviews don’t have to be hugely detailed, but should be more than just blurbs.

If you’re interested in any of these positions just let me know here in the thread!

Thanks!

Erika

[quillwielder]

I volunteer for the reviews.

[Erika]

Awesome Vi - see about cranking out one for Marked for me

[mznaa15]

I know this may sound wierd (because I really should know this xD) but what is a podcast exactly?

[Cara]

I would be very eager to be an episode reviewer. I am a young, talented writer and I am looking forward to the challenge.

[Kevin Bachelder]

Nov 11, 2009 16:17:34 GMT -5 mznaa15 said:

I know this may sound wierd (because I really should know this xD) but what is a podcast exactly?

A podcast is an audio recording often done as an MP3 file. It's much like a talk radio program that anyone can listen to at their convenience.

You can download the podcast files to play on your iPod, other MP3 player or even from your computer.

It's also possible to stream (i.e. listen over the web) many podcasts since most podcasters include a web player option on their website. You just click on the play button and turn up your computer's speakers.

If you have any other podcasting questions please feel free to ask. I've been a podcaster since 2005 so I'm always glad to help wherever I can.

Take care,

Kevin

Please do not spam our boards w/ advertisements. You've already advertised your podcast twice in our forums - that is plenty.

[trueromantic]

Did all of the spots get filled? Unless someone else volunteers, I can help with Fanart stuff. You had previously given me a similar job over there, and I was doing it right up until I went to Thanksgiving and Christmas and unexpectedly didn't have internet access to let you know I wouldn't be able to do it. I've been trying to pop over there once a week anyway to check if things needed updated/organized, but either I miss the stuff or nothings been there, lol. I don't get as much time to come on here anymore, but I'd try to stay caught up with the art stuff. Or if someone else doesn't always have time either, we could split the duties (ex. one of us manage the art and the other do the poll stuff).

If you even need anyone for that position anymore...

~Kim

[sybil]

Melmione, I don't know where to post to you. I was wondering if you hear from fans of the books? On Facebook they seem to be real disappointed in the series, they come on an post about the series a lot and seem to be putting the show down and a lot of comparing. Do ya get that here at all?

[kahlanfan™]

Sent you a PM sybil!

[MistressKahlan]

I would be more than happy to help out with Art area!

[MccKate]

Hi Erika,
I know this thread was started quite a while ago, but I just wondered how many of the posts advertised were still vacant? I would really love to help with the site and be involved any way I could. Fan videos are still a little bit alien to me, am currently trying to work my way through my first! However, I'd be happy to put myself forward for the post of Fanart Archivist or Episode Reviewer (I live in the UK, so we tend to be a few episodes behind you in the US, so would that be a big problem??). Failing that, if there is any way in which I can help please just give me a shout.
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