WebComic Planet Collective

Okay, you’ve spoken, and I’ve listened. Below are a list of names. I will be emailing this list to you all shortly. In your reply, pick the four names you want for the Board. Once I have your votes, I’ll tally them up and post them back here.

In short, here’s how I see the “positions” responsibilities rounding out. The President and VP essentially lead the Board, the Secretary is responsible for keeping track of communication with the Collective (Forums, etc.), and the Treasurer will be responsible for the Ads/Marketing funds we generate/spend. But, they have equal voices in voting, so who’s in what position is not of concern at the moment. The positions will fill themselves once the names are picked.
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Hi There! Thought I’d pop in and give you all an update of what’s been going on…

First, with Phil’s help, he and I have transferred hosting for Webcomic Planet and all it’s associated blogs/sites.  This was a tad time consuming, as is to be expected and Phil was patient with me the whole time.  As an official old fart, I’m not completely hip to all the techo-babble required to do things on the Internet.  Now, if you need to know how to roll a joint… okay, that’s another topic…

With the hosting settled, now we can begin to work on things around here.  First, I would like you all to nominate four members of the collective to become our first Board.  This board will work to oversee the events of this site.  I will work very closely with these four people and will act as a tie breaker in that event.  What the board will do is represent all of you.  These positions will require a small amount of time every month to chat with me about the ongoing/upcoming events of the WCP and the WCPC.  I run very efficient meetings and keep things on topic, so this board will eat up about 2 hours of a person’s time every month.  That’s it.  We all have other things to do.   Oh, it’s okay to nominate yourself in this case, that’s cool.

Here’s some things I’m suggesting for upcoming additions to the site.  I am going to start up a twice monthly video segment that will cover the “latest” news in Webcomics and upcoming events.  This short video (about 10 minutes) will be visually entertaining and informative.  As a former News Director and video editor, I will be doing the production work with suggestions and news from all of you.  Any event… new book, anniversary of your comic, conventions… whatever… will be in this segment.  I will be using a “rotating host” for this segment with voice over work from myself and one other person (who will be named shortly).

Next… I want to redo the Webcomic Reader’s Choice Awards.  This will be the first task of our new board to undertake.  It is a great idea and needs to be done again in a group environment.  The stats of the people coming by the site during the last event was very impressive and we need to follow up on this.  In addition, I want to add an “Oscar” type event; like the Oscars, it will be voted on by our peers (us).  We will put together a nominating committee (from your suggestions again) and get that started.  The movie versions of these two awards are very popular and why not do them for Webcomics. 

That is just the beginning.  Lots more to come!  So, send me your nominations, one each for President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.  These are common titles and just help in the pecking order… not that being “President” of Webcomic Planet isn’t going to be cool at some point…

As always, you may contact me at byron@1977thecomic.com or support@webcomicplanet.com  More to come folks!