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‘We have about 150 fans on Facebook,’Â junior Marissa Naggi said at a recent Windmoor meeting.
‘That’s great,’Â advisor Megan Schaefer replied. ‘But what about submissions?’Â
Windmoor, the literary magazine, decided to go online last fall. Staff members have made a Facebook page and are testing out features that will hopefully go on the web site, Windmoorwired.com. However, they continue to lack submissions.
Senior Sydney Deatherage, who pitched the idea, believes there is currently not enough content to make a successful web site for Windmoor. Putting up the web site will require even more submissions than necessary for the print edition, which Deatherage thinks may be difficult to find.
‘According to Mrs. Jacquin, [for] the next two weeks, Windmoor needs ‘Ëœa full court press’ to get submissions,’Â Deatherage said. ‘I sent out a Facebook message and I’ve been talking to people about it a lot at school.’Â
Windmoor has been making announcements every day during advisory in hopes of encouraging people to submit. For now, since Windmoor Wired is in maintenance mode, they are using Facebook to experiment.
‘[When] we approached Mrs. McCormick, she liked the idea so she used the STA credit card and bought the webby things we needed, and I started working on it,’Â Deatherage said. ‘We’ve already begun doing some [features] on our Facebook fan page that Michaela Knittel created. She made a slideshow of Anna Blanck’s artwork and set it to music, put up photo galleries of digital photography class work and posted an animation that she made. That kind of thing plus our traditional content is what we’re looking for.’Â
With the right kind of publicity, Deatherage believes Windmoor Wired will succeed and possibly even increase submissions.
‘Hopefully it will increase the value of the print version, because we will be putting everything on the web site and then only select things in the magazine,’Â Deatherage said. ‘It will also just bring Windmoor more to the spotlight if there’s a web site that is always there, instead of a magazine that is handed out at the very end of the year.’Â
She also hopes the web site will encourage students to create and share their creativity.
‘[Windmoor Wired] will encourage people to share their work and show it off,’Â Deatherage said. ‘And [it will] encourage people to appreciate fellow students’ talents.’Â
