Events Calendar Editor Needed

Perhaps you would like to be one of our first ever web event editors? The amount of time you devote to this endeavor could be as much you like or as little as an hour or two per week depending on your availability. The new interactive capabilities of our online website have greatly facilitated the ease of accomplishing this task. Not only would you be honing your editorial skills but you could even learn some website tricks along the way! (Excerpted from a Letter of Support Sent Out By The Loo-Wit Sierra Club Group) Help THE DIRT! spread the word about local environmental activities! There is a great online publication which serves the greater Portland area including southwest Washington - THE DIRT! In the past, they've published and distributed a weekly newsletter which includes all kinds of great event information. However, it's a time consuming process to edit submissions from groups like ours, and they've issued this request for editorial assistance. Please consider helping! Holly Washington Chapter Sierra Club Loo-Wit Group ----------HELP WANTED: DIRT! Events Calendar Editor Needed------------ Previewing and reading events for grammatical correctness and to ensure publishing consistency is part of what takes so long to create the weekly publication and why we had to put publishing the full events and their details on hold in hibernation. At the moment I am the only editor of events although we are looking for additional help. Perhaps you would like to be one of our first ever web event editors? The amount of time you devote to this endeavor could be as much you like or as little as an hour or two per week depending on your availability. The new interactive capabilities of our online website have greatly facilitated the ease of accomplishing this task. Not only would you be honing your editorial skills but you could even learn some website tricks along the way! Check out the link to our new website http://www.thedirt.org It is now LIVE! We are hoping that this can be a place where event details are viewable by ALL. We are also looking into ways to further automate the email publishing process as well so that people can once again begin receiving event information by email. Please contact me if you can help with editing. This would be a huge blessing not only to SRSF but also to our 1100+ readers and 200+ organizations, businesses, and governmental agencies who send us their events and announcements throughout the year! Laura B. Nobel Founder of The Dirt! Board Chair, Spreading Roots, Spring Forth info (at) thedirt.org ************************************************************************** OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP: Please copy, paste and post the following message far and wide to all your contacts in and around the Portland/Vancouver area. Thank you for forwarding on this mesage.