FOSSIL Kickoff Meeting
February 19, 2014
Newsletter Breakout Session
How often?
- Quarterly (at least to start)
Format?
- Email and pdf (for those who do not yet do email)
Content?
- Featured fossil
- Featured member or club/organization
- Find of the month
- Outreach
- Field trips
- 1 contribution from scientists, could be reprinted from national geo, etc.
- 1 contribution from club
- Might have club member write about a find or issue and have a scientist write a commentary
- Topics could include collecting guidelines, ethics
Process?
- Clubs submit articles and/or FOSSIL solicits and/or FOSSIL adapts/reprints from a club newsletter
- FOSSIL should establish an archive or “bank” of articles that clubs could use in their newsletters
- Need to establish some guidelines (e.g., how to submit, deadlines, basic style guide)
Who owns?
