SPOKEN WORD, MULTIMEDIA & WEB TEAM
MAIN OBJECTIVE: To provide a robust multimedia online experience for visitors to www.toyonliterarymagazine.org and www.literaryhumboldt.org.
MEASURABLE GOAL: To steadily increase the amount of quality content available on www.toyonliterarymagazine.org and www.literaryhumboldt.org (including number of pages and links and number of audiovideo texts available).
MEASURABLE GOAL: To steadily increase the amount of quality content available on www.toyonliterarymagazine.org and www.literaryhumboldt.org (including number of pages and links and number of audiovideo texts available).
Division Editor, Spoken Word and Audio Texts
• Coordinates with local spoken word clubs, event facilitators, and organizations to solicit submissions.
• Coordinates with the Outreach team to circulate advertisements about the spoken word / audio / video section of the journal and to call for submissions with a deadline of February 14.
• Participates in local slam events, on and off campus, and advertises Toyon there.
• Distributes submissions to the spoken word/audio reviewers.
• Oversees the scoring, selection, and curation of spoken word/audio submissions in consultation with section listeners.
• Selects annual recipient of Fuerza Award.
• Uploads published submissions to Toyon YouTube channel before Acquisitions Editor publishes the issue online.
• Writes and presents for the Toyon staff a report on how other literary journals manage audio and video content. (Or another topic of interest that is relevant to the role.)
• Coordinates with the Outreach team to circulate advertisements about the spoken word / audio / video section of the journal and to call for submissions with a deadline of February 14.
• Participates in local slam events, on and off campus, and advertises Toyon there.
• Distributes submissions to the spoken word/audio reviewers.
• Oversees the scoring, selection, and curation of spoken word/audio submissions in consultation with section listeners.
• Selects annual recipient of Fuerza Award.
• Uploads published submissions to Toyon YouTube channel before Acquisitions Editor publishes the issue online.
• Writes and presents for the Toyon staff a report on how other literary journals manage audio and video content. (Or another topic of interest that is relevant to the role.)
Archive Editor / Webmaster
• Scans and indexes content from previous years’ issues of the Toyon. In consultation with the Development and Fundraising Manager, solicits contributor permissions to publish back issue content online. Digitizes authored content from Toyon that has necessary permissions. This is in consultation with the HSU Special Collections Librarian (Carly Marino) in the Humboldt Room.
• Develops a "History" page to the "About" section of the Toyon website and adds content to the profiles the histories of Toyon awards on this site as well.
• Keeps a research log in Google Drive for future archive editors.
• Reports on (and gains ideas from) how other literary journals circulate their back issues and/or how other literary journals present their histories online.
• Makes suggestions about how to edit and revise the Toyon website.
• (Optional) Designs online public exhibitions for the Literary Humboldt website of literary histories associated with HSU or the North Coast, with critical attention toward the ethics of representation. Examples of primary source collections to include: the Jodi Stutz collection, the Genzoli collection, the Morris Herman collection, authors and organizations profiled in the pamphlets collection, local authors' books (with "P" call numbers).
• Develops a "History" page to the "About" section of the Toyon website and adds content to the profiles the histories of Toyon awards on this site as well.
• Keeps a research log in Google Drive for future archive editors.
• Reports on (and gains ideas from) how other literary journals circulate their back issues and/or how other literary journals present their histories online.
• Makes suggestions about how to edit and revise the Toyon website.
• (Optional) Designs online public exhibitions for the Literary Humboldt website of literary histories associated with HSU or the North Coast, with critical attention toward the ethics of representation. Examples of primary source collections to include: the Jodi Stutz collection, the Genzoli collection, the Morris Herman collection, authors and organizations profiled in the pamphlets collection, local authors' books (with "P" call numbers).
