Introduction for New Communication Directors

From Communication Director's Procedures

Whoa! How the heck did they corral you into doing this? You must be a masochist.

So, you should probably get familiar with everything. One thing you will start to notice is that many of the duties for the position tie in with one another. For example, you are responsible for managing social media, marketing, and audiovisual records. One single daily task may involve all three of those areas, for instance if you are posting promotional images on social media to market an upcoming event. While I do recommend becoming familiar with each section from the main CD duties page, a lot of this kind of seamlessly flows into itself. If you either follow and help to further the system already in place or develop your own system of doing things with this in mind, it won't be such a horrible juggling act. Just maintain social media, virtual assets, and audiovisual records in at least a slightly logical fashion and it won't be so bad. If you get stressed about things like, "is this considered a virtual asset task? Or audiovisual?" then you are likely thinking too hard and overwhelming yourself unnecessarily. Just make sure the things get done, basically. It might be a good idea to review the main procedures page for CD every now and then. Feel free to help develop all this. That's part of this role, too.

If you need help, you can contact James B or the Board about any item (assuming James has not stowed away on a mission to Mars to get off this godforsaken planet by now). Don't hesitate, it's better to ask. If you ask a question, nothing bad happens. You might and probably will get valuable information. If you don't ask a question you have, something bad could happen. So communicate, CD!

Important general policies

WIP, link to various wiki already present (officer duties, bylaws, etc)

Accounts

WIP, intro to all accounts. Tips for POP3/IMAP and forwarding, HootSuite, etc.

Workload

WIP, daily/routine and special tasks with a sample of what to expect

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