NETC NEWS

Dear friends and members of New England Theatre Conference:

Some of you are probably wondering if the mailman ran off with your recent issues of NETC NEWS, our quarterly newsletter. No, the fact is that we simply have not been publishing the NEWS for some time now.
A number of considerations led us to re-examine the role of the NEWS, in its traditional form.
• Time: Because of the cumbersome process of paper publication, there was often a gap of several weeks between the actual editing of the copy and the delivery of the paper newsletter to the membership. Time-sensitive items—announcement of auditions, publicizing of openings, etc.—suffered.
• Green factor: We question the wisdom of consuming paper to do the job that can be done at least as well by another medium. The physical realties of laying out a paper issue further adds to editorial considerations. The content of each issue, published in folio form, has to fill space in units of four-pages, a logistical mare’s nest I prefer not to try to explain here.
• Money, money, money: In addition to the cost of paper, we incurred expenses in professional design services and postage. This cost our organization nearly $4000 a year. Not factored in here are the hours our manager, Joe Juliano, put into addressing and stamping each issue, plus his trips schlepping the material to the P.O.Just go to our webpage, www.netconline.org to find the NEWS.
So finally, after months of silence, the NETC NEWS is back….and on line! This new format and medium will enable us to deliver your news in a timely manner, killing no trees, with no artificially imposed size restrictions, at lower cost, and without tying up our professional manager with clerical busy work.
Please continue to send items to me at ashea@worcester.edu. I shall edit your news releases, and send them on to NETC manager Joe Juliano for posting. We shall be posting items regularly, as you send them in. Photos (in jpeg format) are always welcome.
To ease my editorial chores, please remember, as always, to provide basic “W’s” of Where, What , When etc. Your first paragraph should state dates, location (including STATE!), and company name (and/or names of key figures in your first paragraph. And, if relevant, remember to include contact information (telephone and/or website/e-mail).
So that’s what’s new from here. Waiting to hear from all of you about what’s new in your theatre.

REMEMBER, ONLY CURRENT NETC MEMBERS CAN SUBMIT ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION.

Editorially yours,
Ann Marie Shea
Editor, NETC NEWS