6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
President’s report By Deborah Shaw AE Kia ora Thank you to everyone who joined our annual branch meeting (ABM) at the start of October. Great to see so many familiar faces and some new ones too. Our committee remains the same: Branch president – Deborah Shaw...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
From the committee By Elisabeth Thomas The committee came together again on 8 October 2024 via Zoom, as we continue to trial meeting every two months. We worked on finalising committee handover matters and tasks. A survey of past and present committee members is...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
Editors Queensland end-of-year dinner Calling all editors and friends who will be in or around Brisbane on the evening of Friday 6 December 2024: let’s get together for the annual Editors Queensland end-of-year dinner! Very soon we will announce the restaurant...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
President’s report by Margaret Trudgeon AE The year is fast coming to a close, and the Editors Victoria committee has been working hard over the past month to get some PD workshops and events underway, while planning for new ones to come. We have just completed...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
Whenever we survey members about their professional development needs, two topics will reliably be high on their list. Copyright is one, as a rapidly changing and specialist field that editors nonetheless need good working knowledge of. Working with First Nations...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Julie Ganner AE A frustration I often hear voiced by people with low or no vision is about the lack of image descriptions (alt text) in many digital publications. An image description tells the user what an image is of. Without it, someone using a screen reader...
