INTER-VIEWS' TEAM ( Note From Editor)

Hi Team Inter-View

First thing first, on behalf of the team I would like to warmly welcome Jamie our new sub-editor to team Inter-view. Her expertise in the print industry will be of beneficial to all of us. We welcome you Jamie and we're excited to have you as our new team member.

Right here are a few things that i would like to touch on today, they are as follows:

1) Thank you to the design team for coming up with such fantastic ideas and the input from the team also helped. Keep it up. To Shshank for a brilliant name that I believe Flora ( PR-Marketing Manager) loves and agrees with. I hope everyone is happy with the name and as you might know, the name will no longer carry the word NATIONAL in it - it is strictly - INTER-VIEWS. We will no longer discuss the name unless there is major problems from the powers high than all of us.

2) Thanks to Priya we now have our time-table/schedule set out for the next week, please follow, be on time, be ready with the work so we do not waste any time. If you have a problem and cannot make any of the stated meetings, please let Priya or myself or any of the team members that you will not be able to attend. Attendance is COMPULSORY.

3) Shashank has organised a photo shoot for us, please give suggestions on how you want the team to look like...we can choose the standard professional look of wearing black but that may not go with who we are so suggestions please...i have some ideas that i will post later on regarding the "about us" photo. Time is set for THURSDAY at 6...Please make note.

4) Presenters for the bulletin: Viviana, Susha ( they are the podacst Producers they should be the one to have a go first as they will be working more and more with podcast this time. we will all rotate news anchoring...should Viv or Susha need someone else to help with the anchoring please let me know and someone will be assigned)

5) The Logo, Shashank to please make up some logo's for us to look at but i know that the GLOBE seemed to be a favourite the last time. Please put in some suggestions everyone. Shashank perhaps a talk with the designers to come up with something...TEAM PLEASE SUGGEST LOGO"S...

6)Ariel wants to know who has pics for their stories and who has to source pics and who wants to make new pics...PLEASE LET HER KNOW ASAP...it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to tell ARIEL what you want in order for her to be able to HELP YOU!!!

- Thabi - Photo's for Paris ( I have and will put on a disk for you)

- Viv - needs a pics that represents religion...we can be abstract, think creatively...

- Max - car without driver - we have to source that off the Internet and find out if we need permission from their press office...

- Shashank - technology story - let ARIEL know if you can get press pics or if we will need to source them ASAP...

- Jamie - Oscars - we need a lot of sourcing for this piece. Ariel the Oscar piece is about the who's and who's of the Oscar's this year. try working with that for now. I would try and get pics of the nominated movies, their celebrities and the directors of the movies, pics of past Oscars, the Oscar statue, red carpet pics...this is a BIG OUTSOURCING lets start on this NOW!!!!.

- Susha - pics of the circuit F1 circuit, plus pics of a famous driver in Bahrain..think about your story and get the pic suggestions to Arie...

- Flora - transportation spring festival - Chinese

- Ariel - Gay people - we need couples etc...

Ariel please give resolution for pics to designers so they know how big the column for the pics should be...


7) Tan please do not forget to look at the copyright materials to present on Sunday to us..

8) Friday evening the 09 Feb at 6PM we will take a look at the SITE for the first time before Sunday so we know what it will look like. Meeting Compulsory...

9) Root folder has been created and the only ones who have access at the moment is myself and Priya. I will speak more about this on Sunday...

10) Please remember to give your stories TAG lines before you submit them on Sunday.

11) We have been given 50-100 words for our NEWS Pages and 600-800words per feature as per designers. So you have enough space to write as much as you want and as many photo's as you want...

12) Flora to please e-mail me the draft for the PR&Marketing before Sunday...

13)Importantly please respond appropriately on the blog, if you have any personal issues with someone, talk to them directly. This platform is for creative exchange and queries or requests or suggestions relating to the website, anything personal should not be included in here. Please do try and look at the blog as often as you can as a lot posting goes on while we do not have meetings.

This is all from me, work hard this coming week, i will see you all on Thursday for the photo shoot, I'm excited about that and i can't wait to see what the designers have for us on Friday and your stories on Sunday.

Thank you for the hard work, lets keep it up.

for now

ciao

T

PS: shashank i will e-mail you Jamie's address so we can link her to the blogpage...