TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: June/July 2005 Page: 2 of 3
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We may add a card reader in the future for processing payments at
conventions. This would almost never be needed right now, but if we begin opening
the conventions to other journalists and non-members, selling directories at the
conventions, etc. a card reader might come in handy.
After we have been accepted, receive our merchant ID number, and practice on
the tutorial website, we will notify our members' corporate and accounting offices that
they now have the option of paying by credit card. Requests by corporate owners who
now prefer to pay everything by credit card were the impetus for offering this service.
" Associate Member Solicitation - Next week I will begin following up the board's
request to organize contacts to potential associate members.
" New Newspaper Memberships - As I have mentioned to you, I have contacted the
Katy Courier, which will begin publishing next week, and am sending a letter to the
publisher Steve Martin.
I am also following up on the second class postal permit status of the new
member Rumbo de San Antonio.
The following items are the basic points covered in my Membership Services Report to the
board yesterday.
" E-mail setup for everybody ... completed for most publishers and editors, next
circulation and advertising ... then will get associates, bureaus, wire services,
corporate offices, journalism departments
By soliciting these names, e-mail addresses and fax numbers, we have received
much updated information that makes us realize how quickly the TDNA directory
becomes outdated and inaccurate ... still pondering the possibility of periodically
providing up-to-date electronic lists of newspaper staff data for an extra fee as an
optional add-on to the sale of each directory, but we are not yet to the point of being
able to handle that
" Journalism Organizations ... have began establishing relationship with journalism
organizations holding conferences (such as SPJ and Mayborn Institute), mailed press
releases, putting notices on website
" Job Bank ... next, TDNA will use those journalism contacts to solicit resumes for
website's job bank_... receipt of resumes has tapered off, apparently because
applicants can contact papers with job openings listed on our website ... TDNA will
also attempt to attract bi-lingual reporters to the job bank to comply with an inquiry
made earlier this year
" Website Maintenance and Revamping ... has been the one project continually
pushed aside for legislative work and more pressing day-to-day membership services
... updates are still being farmed out ... plan to focus on website in second half of this
year, to turn more attention toward keeping newspaper/associate firm listings current
and to pump up the job bank for the benefit of Texas newspapers as well as for
establishing a stronger liaison with Texas universities2
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Thompson, Darla. TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: June/July 2005, report, July 29, 2005; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1339172/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.