Blog Team

This page is useful to those Writing Blog Posts at the McNair Center.

The core Blog Team currently consists of Catherine Kirby, Tay Jacobe, and Eliza Martin. However, every member of the McNair Staff is encouraged to consider writing a blog article. Individuals with blogs published or in progress include Carlin Cherry, Dylan Dickens, Julia Wang, and Meghana Gaur.

The Blog Team Structure currently includes two leadership positions: A graphics editor (TBD), and an online editor (Tay Jacobe). Every student that write a blog post is required to take a turn as peer editor and review another student's content. We have also recently introduced two weekly round-up blog posts on entrepreneurship and innovation, respectively. Meghana Gaur and Avesh Krishna will take on the roles of weekly round-up writers. Each week we are going to do a weekly roundup of articles posted on the web on the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation (one post each). Our Weekly Round-up Resources provides a place to keep track of the sources we are using.

Team Structure

The Blog Team is highly encouraged to collaborate and bounce ideas off of one another. To facilitate a team dynamic, the Blog Team needs to have meetings at least once a month to generate ideas, set goals, and talk about progress. This way, the entire team can be on the same page about what kind of content is wanted, what everyone else is working on, and potential opportunities for collaboration.

Student Leadership Positions

These leaders will be appointed by Ed and Anne. Student leaders are responsible for logging and documenting their work in a manner that allows for easy transition once a new student takes over the position.

• Graphics Editor Responsible for approving all choices for blog post graphics, checking that we have permission to use them and that they are appropriate based on the content of the post. This editor is also responsible for approving the captions on photos. The Graphics Editor will also check once the blog post has been published that it has the correct citations, caption, and appearance in WordPress. This position is currently open. Let us know if you’re interested.
• Online Editor: Tay Jacobe will be responsible for approving the blog posts once they are in WordPress right before they are published. The Online Editor checks to make sure that the Yoast SEO and Readability plugins are rating the page at an acceptable level. The Online Editor assures that there is consistency in how we structure posts. The Online Editor is responsible for keeping a running list of what posts we have published and what date they were published. The Online Editor page has important details for the online editor's job.

Two student roles

• Peer Editor: All student blog writers would in turn act as peer content editors. Responsible for editing drafts of blog posts, looking for places where content could be improved, cut, or elaborated upon. The Peer Editors also edit posts for grammar and style. Peer editors will return posts to authors within one shift. See Peer Editor Schedule for available per editors.
• Weekly Round-up Authors: These students would author a weekly post that briefly summarized what other entrepreneurship and innovation blog writers had posted during the preceding week. Round-up authors would be responsible for choosing which contact from an established list of blogs to include. They could also include material from other blogs, but these additions would need to be okayed by Anne or Ed. The weekly round-up would be published on Monday mornings, and thus would need to completed and approved no later than 5:00 pm on Friday. The round-up authors for fall 2016 are Avesh Krishna and Meghana Gaur.

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