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July 18, 2011 Moderator, Workshop Comments Off

Moderator Positions - Applications for Fall 2011 Workshops Will be Accepted July 25th to August 15th

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

Applications for the Fall 2011 Workshops will be accepted from July 25th through August 15th.
All participants should have been contacted and notified of the status of their application shortly after being received.

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.