If you feel inspired by something you’ve learned or experienced, whether you’re sat in the library at council, or you travel the country talking about how to do web stuff better – if you’ve got the time and the inspiration, please share you’re story with us.
To submit an article you can either:
Guidelines for your story
Please read the very useful information below before sending us your story.
What can stories be about?
Anything that is relevant to the world of web and local government (and the general public sector). We all know that managing websites isn’t just about the code, there are people challenges, usability issues, community engagement strategies, and yeah there’s still all that techi stuff, ooh and lets not forget making it look pretty too!
Think of your article as an opportunity to inspire people and share your knowledge in your area of expertise and experience.
How long?
We’re happy to have a mix of short and long articles. As a guide a small article would be minimum of 300 words, and we’d want the max for a longer article to be around 1,700 words. If you’re a bit over or a bit under that’s fine, we don’t want to restrict your creative writing, we just want to give you a guide.
Who are you?
Along with your article we would like to include a short bio (around 300 characters), your blog/website address, and a high res photo of you. If you are submitting you are submitting your article as a contributor on this blog then don’t forget to fill out your bio and add your photo or gravatar.
Structure
Intro: With your article please provide a paragraph (around 150 characters) that will be the leader to your article, i.e. to entice people to read it! (If you have trouble with this then we will help you.)
Headings: As with many magazines, and because we are producing this online as well as in print, it would be great if you can break up the text with a few headings where appropriate, especially if it is a long article.
It’s black, it’s white: Please remember that this will be produced in black and white if you are going to use screen-shots or photos – make sure they’ll still be clear.
Editing
Our communications manager (Kate Walsh) will be assisting in the editing content for the magazine. We will contact you should we need to make any significant changes, but if they are minor edits we’ll carry on as we’ll probably be on a tight deadline!
Timeline
Timelines will be confirmed once a date has been set for the next issue (which will be end 2009 / early 2010). Feel free to register as a contributor on this blog and start writing when you feel inspired – we will let you know before we publish it.
The audience
This magazine is for people working on the web primarily in local government around Australia, and also other spheres of government and the public sector. There are a real mix of skill sets out there, we don’t expect your article to be relevant to everyone at every level, but please make sure it is digestible, i.e. not pure code.
Many web workers in local government are passionate about what they do, by sharing your knowledge – whether you are in the commercial or public sector – you can help others know how to build great websites.
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Share your story
If you feel inspired by something you’ve learned or experienced, whether you’re sat in the library at council, or you travel the country talking about how to do web stuff better – if you’ve got the time and the inspiration, please share you’re story with us.
To submit an article you can either:
Guidelines for your story
Please read the very useful information below before sending us your story.
What can stories be about?
Anything that is relevant to the world of web and local government (and the general public sector). We all know that managing websites isn’t just about the code, there are people challenges, usability issues, community engagement strategies, and yeah there’s still all that techi stuff, ooh and lets not forget making it look pretty too!
Think of your article as an opportunity to inspire people and share your knowledge in your area of expertise and experience.
How long?
We’re happy to have a mix of short and long articles. As a guide a small article would be minimum of 300 words, and we’d want the max for a longer article to be around 1,700 words. If you’re a bit over or a bit under that’s fine, we don’t want to restrict your creative writing, we just want to give you a guide.
Who are you?
Along with your article we would like to include a short bio (around 300 characters), your blog/website address, and a high res photo of you. If you are submitting you are submitting your article as a contributor on this blog then don’t forget to fill out your bio and add your photo or gravatar.
Structure
Intro: With your article please provide a paragraph (around 150 characters) that will be the leader to your article, i.e. to entice people to read it! (If you have trouble with this then we will help you.)
Headings: As with many magazines, and because we are producing this online as well as in print, it would be great if you can break up the text with a few headings where appropriate, especially if it is a long article.
It’s black, it’s white: Please remember that this will be produced in black and white if you are going to use screen-shots or photos – make sure they’ll still be clear.
Editing
Our communications manager (Kate Walsh) will be assisting in the editing content for the magazine. We will contact you should we need to make any significant changes, but if they are minor edits we’ll carry on as we’ll probably be on a tight deadline!
Timeline
Timelines will be confirmed once a date has been set for the next issue (which will be end 2009 / early 2010). Feel free to register as a contributor on this blog and start writing when you feel inspired – we will let you know before we publish it.
The audience
This magazine is for people working on the web primarily in local government around Australia, and also other spheres of government and the public sector. There are a real mix of skill sets out there, we don’t expect your article to be relevant to everyone at every level, but please make sure it is digestible, i.e. not pure code.
Many web workers in local government are passionate about what they do, by sharing your knowledge – whether you are in the commercial or public sector – you can help others know how to build great websites.