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Volunteer: Call members to update info

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

As part of an effort to update our database, we are contacting every SFWA member. Those who have not logged into the new website, or contacted us to let us know about problems, by September 1st will get a courtesy phone call.

We need twenty SFWA members to help make these calls. Each volunteer will receive a spreadsheet with no more than forty names. The calls can be completed at any time in the month of September.

If you would like to volunteer for this, please visit our volunteer center. And if you are a SFWA member and have not logged in to the new site, please take a moment to do so. You’ll save a volunteer some time.

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Welcome to the new SFWA website

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

This website is intended to be a pivotal part of the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s mission to inform, promote, support, defend and advocate for writers.

We’ve got a number of new programs for writers, readers and educators which we’ll be highlighting this week. At the moment, I want to give credit to our hardworking webteam volunteers.

Designer — Jon Armstrong
Website Content Editor — Nancy Fulda
Webmaster – Chris Hansen
Conversion to Wordpress — Jeremy Tolbert
Content Transfer: Jamie Todd Rubin, Scott Danielson, James Bassett, Brandie Tarvin, Aislynn Denny, Jin Kang, Christie Yant, Meg Stout
Forum Moderators: Jim Johnson, Joy Marchand, Scott Roberts, Charles A. Tan, Brandie Tarvin

There’s still more to come, but these volunteers have worked incredibly hard to get us to this point and deserve serious kudos for their efforts.

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Reminder: Volunteers needed for SFWA at Worldcon

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

We’re still looking for help at the SFWA Table and Suite at Montreal and have autographing slots at the table. Please volunteer by signing up at the Volunteer website

Dealers Table — http://tinyurl.com/sfwadealers
Autographing — http://tinyurl.com/sfwaautographs
SFWA Suite — http://tinyurl.com/sfwasuite

We’re also happy to have drop in help.

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Volunteer at Worldcon for the dealer’s room, autographs, or the SFWA suite

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon, will be held from August 6th – 10th in Montreal. SFWA is looking for volunteers to help out in three different areas.

The Dealer’s Room
Once again, SFWA will have a table in the dealers room. SFWA will be selling books, T-shirts, and memberships at the table. We need SFWA members to help staff the table when the dealers room is open. If you can volunteer some of your time, whether an hour here or there, or longer, we’d love to have you help out. We know that you probably don’t have your panel schedule yet, but feel free to express your interest and we can work out the details of what shift is convenient for you after schedules are sent out.

Dealers Room hours are: Thursday, 1-7, Friday-Sunday 10-6, and Monday 10-4.

Autographing
In addition to working at the table in the Dealers Room, SFWA would like to have authors agree to sit at the table and sign autographs. Again, at this time, just let Steven know if you’re available and willing and we can work out a specific time once you have your schedule in place.

SFWA Suite
Finally, SFWA will be hosting the SFWA Suite once again. If you can help out in the suite, let us know your willingness and availability.

So, if you’re going to be in Montreal, please visit our volunteer center and sign up to help SFWA with one or more of the volunteer opportunities:

Dealers Table http://tinyurl.com/sfwadealers
Autographing http://tinyurl.com/sfwaautographs
SFWA Suite http://tinyurl.com/sfwasuite

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