Discord:
- I know the zine process like the back of my hand at this point. I come up with task lists for the period in advance and post it in the Discord server for all the mods to see.
- I also have two server templates ready for use - one for regular zine servers, and one for if the mod team wants public channels.
- I have been the one who always manages the DIscord server and channels in my zines, and thus knows the settings, role management, etc. blindfold. I've taught many people on the works of Discord as well, whether my fellow mods, or people who have come to me for help.
- I also always have a channel to keep track of things the mod team learned throughout the zine process!
- I use bots such as MEE6, Carl-Bot, and Friend-Time a lot!
- I'm also in many zine help servers, so I'm able to advertise in those!Documents
- I have templates for EVERYTHING. Whether for emails, posts, forms, etc.! Here's an example.
- My best documents are the Contributor Handbook and Mod Handbook, because no one I have seen has ever done them on spreadsheets, in such an aesthetically pleasing way. the Mod Handbook is where I have guest voting sheet, log in info, tags system, and a place for all mods to fill out info for mod intro posts. The Contributor Handbook has all the links the contributors need to know, Specs and Templates, info on check-ins, info on mods, etc. It has worked for all my projects so far, for both mods and contributors.
- I am proficient in forms - I made mod apps 6 times (HQ Team Zines twice, Narutales, Brewbooks, Avatarots, Anime Olympics), contributor apps in ever zine I've been in, shipping/payment info forms about 3 times (HQ Team Zines, SweetHearts, Narutales, Brewbooks, Soft and Warm, Hanakotoba Bokuaka).
- I am obsessed with Google Sheets. I use it in my daily life, organizing my finances, sorting out what I've watched, sorting out my zine schedule, the list goes on. I know formulas and features so well at this point, I don't even have to search up how to use them.
- I am proficient in GDrive, I am often the one organizing it. I know hidden features for it that makes things so much easier. Don't want to always have to log into Gmail to access GDrive? Put all your docs in a folder and link that in the server. Want it so then only you and the mods can edit the stuff inside it? Put in all of your emails in the Edit Access setting.
- I have helped others countless times on their forms and such as well.Contributors:
- I've done a lot of contributor management for projects that had ranging 20 - 80 people (SweetHearts and Avatarots being the most).
- The majority of my zines I had to arrange people into sections and deal with sign ups for calendars, bonus PDFs, ko-fis, etc. The most challenging ones were Avatarots (assigning ~40 contributors to cards, Potion Brewbooks (determining the sections, making sure there's a good even split of ideas and that the ideas don't repeat, pairing writer-artist-chef, all within a new zine concept not one before; lots of playing by ear), Anime Olympics Zine (we had to make sure there was a good variety of non-fics and fics, had to see who's good with action pieces and who's not, and that the people were willing to provide a variety of fandoms).
- I've tackled various methods to do check-ins: submit via GDrive folders, submit via Dropbox, submit via Discord, and I'm currently trying via Google Form. So if you'd like to do whichever method, I am knowledgeable in them and can help out.
- Also have an easy to use concept spreadsheet I've created to make sure ideas don't overlap.Social Media:
- I've coded Tumblr themes for 8 years with Anime Olympics Zine, AtLA Zine, Narutales, Avatarots, Potion Brewbooks, and Knockout, along with my own personal blogs.
- I always discuss a tag system with the mod team before we post anything. Check out Soft and Warm Zine's tags as an example - I led the discussion for this tag system.
- I always create and manage albums on Twitter to compile things like previews together. I also use threads as much as possible. Check out HQ Team Zines' albums which I managed.
- I've started ensuring that all projects I'm in has a Carrd, or something equivalent to store all info for easy viewing. I usually make my projects' Carrds (with the exception of Soft and Warm Zine's Carrd - I also made that one), and help add and arrange the content in the Carrds of the other projects I'm in.
