PROCESS

This page will outline the major action steps needed to produce and distribute this communications update in print copy and online.

1. Editorial Team -- TBA.  Interested parties please drop me an email: hnef@aol.com or marincitytoday@aol.com
• establishing deadlines
• assignments e.g. completion of the database
• existing resources and fundraising
• Start to finish map  (critical paths)
• Artist, artwork, specialty features
  
2. Formulate and/or complete line Item budget
3. Info, interviews, organization status reporting
4. Secure Advertising and promotionals
5. Database base completion -- source for the resource directory
6. Establish typesetting, proofing and layout protocols --
7. Design and layout work -- how do we want to paper to look
8. Printing and distribution plan (circulation numbers and targets)
9. Non-profit Bulk Mail Permit: Community Service District
10. Articles:
11. Interviews and interviewer assignments:  residents and organizational heads
12. Organizational status report either through in-housing writing or via an interview process -- submission or collection process
13. Proof Reading:   Dr. Marlene Jones, others needed
14. Photographic Sources and selection process:  MC Network,
15. Free Lance Writers -- how to present opportunities
16. Publishers  -- Former publisher "Marin Sun" (good rates) and other options
17. Anticipate 3 to 5 thousand copies
18. Postal drops on postal routes that cover all of Marin City and the unincorporated areas of Sausalito
19. Selected drop points to be hand delivered e.g. Civic Centers, Boards of Supervisors, Fair Housing, I.J., businesses, etc.
20. Feedback operation -- did the information reach the targeted populations, readers, organizations.  Can this information be leveraged to bring more resources into the community?