Newsletters and Magazines

Both non-profit and for-profit organzations produce newsletters and similar publications to get their message out. The audience may be employees, graduates, customers, donors or other groups who have an interest in the organization. These publications provide information about the oranization and the people involved with it. The best of them keep a generally upbeat editorial tone without shying away from serious news when necessary.

I have contributed to several newsletters as writer or editor or both.

Nonprofit Publications

I worked as editor of the Quarterly (now HNU Today), the alumni magazine for Holy Names University. I led the editorial board meetings, assigned stories to volunteer writers, edited contributions for length as necessary. I also advised on graphics and layout.

Prior to my time as editor at the college, I was a volunteer member of the Quarterly's editorial board. I helped select stories and themes for upcoming issues, and wrote stories as necessary.

I have written individual articles for the alumni magazine of Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School, the newsletter for Kappa Gamma Pi (an academic society), and the Ragged Left, the newsletter of the Berkeley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. In addition, my first-person article about donating blood was reprinted in Lifelines, the newsletter of the Blood Centers of the Pacific.

Corporate Publications

I designed and wrote the System Security Quarterly at Pacific Bell Information Services. This publication was part of a larger effort to keep computer users aware of password security, viruses, e-mail chain letters, and similar aspects of computer security that they could control.

I also contributed individual articles to Affinity and The Spotlight, newsletters published for employees of Pacific Bell Directory.