1168 The Brother; being selective with your news; you are a news-writer
austra L asia 1168
The Brother; being selective with your news; you are
a news-writer
ROME: 16th June 2005 -- One should be immediately
honest - those are three different headlines! The connecting
point is Bosconet-austraLasia.
You will now find abundant material on The Salesian
Brother, in English, on Bosconet. Just go to the home page and
click on any reference to The Brother there. In fact, we have
included everything that has become available in the past 10 years, and
in some cases longer. There was a very recent comment made by the
Rector Major in Piedmont which has yet to be translated into English,
but as soon as it is, we will include that too.
The second part of the headline is also worth
considering. You can now search austraLasia news (for all of
2005) according to Province, again by going to Bosconet. You will
see the indication at the top of the home page. The break-up is
revealing; it enables one to see the range of news items coming
from each part of the region. There are sectioins of a more
general nature too, either for the region, for the Salesian world or
for general news.
An even better service you can benefit from is that each
of these sections is also RSS-enabled. This means that you could
filter out or filter in a particular section if you receive austraLasia
by RSS. This service is being offered as a small step in an
'education' process to encourage readers to make choices. If you
are already receiving austraLasia via RSS, you will be receiving all
sections and most would want to continue with that to know the region
better. But you may be especially interested or not interested,
as the case may be, in South Asia Region news, for example. RSS
enables you to make those choices.
Remember - every reader is a news-writer!
Certainly there are regular correspondents, but there is not a single
reader of austraLasia who cannot him or herself send in a bit of
news. You do not need to 'write' your news. The following
guidelines are recommended for providing the basics that enable us to
write it for you, if you wish:
- think of a brief title/headline that captures your
item of news (the headline above is unusual and normally
unacceptable! There are three of them there)
- offer no more than three (3) main points. If
there are details to add, do not offer more than seven (7) details in
total.
- if there is a source of your news, indicate this
- indicate, somewhere, your province
- indicate, somewhere, the sector of activity:
Youth, Formation, Communication, Salesian Family, Missions, Economy,
EAO general, SDB general, Other
And that's it, really.
One final issue: do recent issues of austraLasia
come with funny    characters at the beginning of some lines?
And, importantly, did THIS one come completely clean and as you would
expect? The problem is one of coding, and we need to get it
right. Your advice can help. Please tell us.
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