creaking back into the swing of things
Cindy C.
cindysphynx at comcast.net
Tue Oct 15 19:53:08 UTC 2002
Kimberly:
>So I just wanted to stop in and say
> hi, and if somebody can give me a little nudge in the right
>direction about message blocks and what they need done to them and
>such, I'll get right on it! Or, more accurately, I'll get on it
>Thursday night when I have a little time to myself. I'm shamefully
>behind (like possibly months) on the main list, but hopefully this
>will help me catch up.
Oh, cataloguing will catch you up, all right! ;-)
Here's a quick orientation. We're approaching the task of updating
the FAQs in two stages.
First, we're creating a massive catalogue of the messages to the main
list. We decided to start with Message 25,000 and work forward,
although we'll try to go back and do the earlier messages as soon as
we can. Stage 2 will be the actual writing of new FAQs and updating
of older ones.
Message 989 is the first message where we FAQers started to get
ourselves organized for this latest effort, so feel free to read
those messages. There's also Message 1218, which lays out guidelines
for our cataloguing. We're all working in Excel. Thankfully, Dicey
has thoughtfully put together an Excel Help document, which is in the
files section.
Once you understand Excel, the next task for you is to simply sign up
for any message block block you want. There's a database with
1000-message chunks. Sign up for anything that's not already taken.
Be sure to upload your catalogue *frequently* as you work to guard
against computer crashes -- there's a file where we're keeping copies
of our work. Have a look at any of the catalogues as models.
Mmm. That's all I can think of. Post your questions here, and we'll
be happy to help you out.
And thanks for joining up, Kimberly!
Cindy
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