20231107 Board of Publications Meeting November 2023
Agenda:
Welcome and Review of Agenda [Penny]
Roll Call [Zelda]
Approval of Minutes from the October 3, 2023 BOP Meeting [Zelda]
Public’s Point of View [Guests]
Editor’s Report[Sharon]
Including an Overview of ACB Media in each Braille Forum and on the web site [Penny, Sharon, All] Proposed content?
Can an informative page be located on the inside back cover of the Braille Forum?
Braille Forum boiler plate [Sharon, Penny, All] Where should it consistently appear in the magazine?
What information should it include?
A BOP page on www.acb.org How can we make this happen? [Deb, Rick]
An e-mail address for the Board of Publications Can we create one? And, point it to the Chair’s personal e-mail address? [Deb, Rick]
ACB Voices BLOG
We need to add information about suggested wordcount to the introductory material. And a description of appropriate topics.
Anything else?
[All]
Do we have the BLOG submission from Karyn? Anything else to review yet for November?
Member at the Mic Process: Approval of Cheryl and Cachet’s proposal [Cheryl, Cachet, Anthony, all]
Member at the Mic and Scholarship Winner Spotlight update [Anthony]
Penny and Cheryl are BLOG reviewers for November.
Who wants to volunteer for December?
Editorial Policy Manual Updates
Penny, Zelda, and Jeff agreed to address necessary updates, including to review Section 15 which deals with the BOP’s role with respect to social media, to incorporate changes approved in 2019 in the Editorial Manual that is published on the web site, and to add large print guidelines that were approved last year to the appendix on the web site. . We need to find a time to meet. [Penny, Zelda, Jeff]
Braille Forum Budget[Deb, Katie]
What happens next?
Has the list of Braille Forum subscribers been purged of non members, and did that reduce our costs for producing the Braille Forum??
Update on EReader training [Penny]
ACB Media Report [Rick]
Is the new version of ACB LINK up now?
Update on ACB’s presence on the Mastodon platform [Jeff, Rick]
Other Topics? [All]
Adjourn. Next BOP meeting: December5, 2023.
