Moderator Position - Applications Open to July 15th, 2010

Updated: April 3rd, 2010

The forum moderator manages and directs operations of one or more individual forums (writing projects) on Fictionista Workshop. This role is critical to the success of a given project, essentially functioning as a workshop leader and project manager in addition to performing more traditional duties of a forum moderator, such as resolving disagreements and maintaining discussion threads.

Application Guidelines

• The current workshop is in session and applications at this time are placed in queue for the Summer 2010-Fall 2010 workshop. This application must be completely filled out and submitted by the assigned deadline, which is by midnight CDT, July 15th, 2010.
• All participants will be contacted and notified of the status of their application being received by the aforementioned deadline. For more information, see the Calendar.
• Any changes made to this application must be submitted in writing to the administration team no later than 24 hours after the deadline has closed.
• No modifications will be accepted after that time.
• Apply for only one workshop position at a time.

I. Expectations of an Ideal Candidate

• As a forum moderator, you will facilitate the process in a public forum.
• Moderators will be working with administrators, authors, editors, and registered participants and must maintain strong, friendly, and professional relationships.
• Acquire skills in website management to assist Administrator in keeping forum topics organized.
• Moderators are discussion leaders and will occasionally need to encourage workshop members to focus on specific elements of craft and story concepts of character/plot, directing them toward the desired goal for the workshop.
• Modeling the critical process for the other workshop members is as important as the critique itself.
• Moderators should be perceptive individuals and have a good understanding of how various issues can affect others when directing the outcome of a situation.
• Anything requiring personal attention (ex. negativity expressed to another participant and/or moderator/author, abuse of thread, disregard of workshop rules, etc.) will be handled tactfully by initial contact via PM.

II. Application Process

A. Moderating History

5 questions

Note: This section is meant to include ALL of your experience, including with professional, academic, and recreational moderation. Please feel free to tell us about yourself when answering.

B. Your Communication Style

7 questions

C. Community Presence

8 questions

Note: If you are new to any type of community membership in general, please provide the answers as best you can. We are looking for the best fit for our workshop, not the most established community contributors.

D. Character Reference

Moderator Application

Questions, comments, concerns? Contact the Fictionista Workshop administration team.

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