{"id":1895,"date":"2013-02-25T08:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:06:13","slug":"a-word-from-the-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/a-word-from-the-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word From the First Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/url1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1919\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/url1-187x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Happy anniversary to us! A year ago today publications intern\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/the-cast-of-characters\/\">Nicole Jagielski \u201912<\/a> and I launched this blog with a post called &#8211; and I believe you can see the full might of our joint creative powers at work there \u2013 &#8220;First Post.&#8221; Actually, I enjoyed re-reading this Feb. 25, 2012 entry this weekend, and still agree with its assertion that <a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/2012\/02\/25\/43\/\">College editors may have the best job in the whole world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed this additional connection with your magazine \u2013 just one more way to stay in touch with life at the college. From my own point of view \u2013 well, here&#8217;s the accounting:<\/p>\n<p>GAINS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Got better at writing headlines (had to happen)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Linked up a whole lot of stuff that was lying out there, lonely. Truly, the web is a very webby place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Tallied 51 posts; five pages; 12 widgets; 238 tags; 13,556 comments currently awaiting moderation. (If you are a real person and your cogent remarks are still adrift in this ocean of spam, my sincere apologies.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Heard from around the world. POSTED from around the world: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/2012\/05\/15\/i-slept-like-a-bishop\/\">I Slept Like a Bishop<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/2012\/06\/03\/1143\/\">Acquiring the Abbey Habit<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/2012\/05\/22\/crowning-glory\/\">Crowning Glory<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/2012\/05\/24\/blogging-norbertine\/\">Blogging Norbertine<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Was completely won over to the idea of a &#8220;capstone project&#8221; for all interns, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/2012\/05\/03\/eight-weeks-on\/\">&#8220;Eight Weeks In&#8221;<\/a> will show you why.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Realized all over again how much I like making publications, no matter how modest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Completed the suite of publications that make up St. Norbert College Magazine (print edition, online issue, newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St.NorbertCollegeMagazine?fref=ts\">Facebook page<\/a>, blog)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Got myself a little education in web strategy, and learned how to press a few of the buttons behind the scenes, too &#8211; all nice and timely for a summer in which we would redesign the <a href=\"www.snc.edu\">college website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Had a lot of fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">LOSSES<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">A few hours here and there on Saturday mornings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, great preparation for a year that would bring other\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">new storytelling possibilities &#8211; \u00a0those brought through both\u00a0the web redesign and\u00a0the (coming) radical rethink of our magazine, on- and off-line. Hang with us through our second year for more on all that!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy anniversary to us! A year ago today publications intern\u00a0Nicole Jagielski \u201912 and I launched this blog with a post called &#8211; and I believe you can see the full might of our joint creative powers at work there \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/a-word-from-the-first-year\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,1],"tags":[150],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}