Monday, October 14, 2013

Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?
  • How can an editor best direct a publication to ensure a quality product?
2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ?
  • Organize the staff in an effective and communicative way. This allows for the editor to monitor the progress, problems, and other situations that may occur within a publication's staff members.
3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ? 
  • My most informative source would be a book titled The Editor In Chief: A Management for Magazine Editors, by Benton Rain Patterson and Coleman E.P. Patterson. A lot of chapters in this book really emphasized the importance of team-oriented work and establishing effective methods of communication and relationships with a staff. Building up a strong foundation of trust and responsibility between staff members and the editor is essential to creating a successful product.
4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?
  • My mentor is Mimi Orth of Herff Jones Publishing. I work alongside her in elective, after school, and often on weekends to create assignments,manage a staff, organize the progress of the yearbook, offer insight to spreads, teach lessons to the class, and manage other business regarding the creation, printing, and distribution of the yearbook. What I do relates to my EQ because it is taking my position as Co-Editor In Chief and allowing for me to justify it with experiences from directing an entire publication.

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