Friends, we are about to start a new training session for volunteer editors
for the clipping service part of the Media Awareness Project. We are
looking for a few dedicated folks to be
Editors, the folks who process the items sent to editor@mapinc.org.

The average volunteer editor puts in about a hour a day, taking time off or
reducing workload through an automated system of workload sharing. Please
consider carefully before you volunteer. During the last round of training
more than half the volunteers decided that the volunteer editing work was
not for them.

On the other hand, all the current editors find the work very
rewarding - a worthwhile contribution to the reform effort. We are a
friendly and helpful group to work with.

Although it is still a work in
process, we have the first chapters of a training guide for editors up at
http://www.mapinc.org/lists/howto/manual.htm Please look it over before you
volunteer.

Volunteers will be placed on a small training
discussion list called "howto" in response to your volunteer message

To volunteer, please just send me a note rlake@mapinc.org

Oh, we have editors who do not do this work under their real name, and even
use a special email address just for this work - that is OK. We understand
that some have good reasons for not wanting the public to know who you are
(just as an editor who was a Captain on actived duty in the military didn't).

Read what our current editors think about this volunteer work at
"Volunteer MAP Editors Speak Out!"
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n762.a11.html

As always, a big THANK YOU to all the current volunteers, editors,
newshawks, letter writers, focus alert specialists, webmasters, listmasters
and all of you who simply use our services to stay informed! You make it
happen!

Richard Lake
rlake@mapinc.org
Sr. Editor; DrugNews