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Production Workflow at Ooligan Press: A Project Manager’s Early Perspective

By Stephanie Johnson Lawson

November 19, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Production Workflow at Ooligan Press: A Project Manager’s Early Perspective

Oolies (that’s what we call the graduate students who help run Ooligan Press) are simultaneously publishing professionals—meeting deadlines and industry standards to produce successful books—and actively learning new skills, collaborating innovatively, and pursuing academic success. At Ooligan Press, the books we publish follow a production workflow, which is the backbone of the entire process.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: collaborate, Editing, flash fiction, graduate, learning, Marketing, ooligan press, project management, publishing, sales, scholars, Social Media

Digital Skills Empower Publishing Professionals

By Stephanie Johnson Lawson

September 27, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Digital Skills Empower Publishing Professionals

Dr. Kathi Berens opened up our digital skills class for a discussion about the complexities surrounding digital media platforms, synthesizing the article with her belief that “basic code literacy is an extraordinarily empowering skill set that…gives users a level self-control and freedom that people don’t have if they rely entirely on third parties to represent their public speech.” Her point parallels one made by Michelle Goldberg in the aforementioned article: while she agrees with the decisions made that ultimately de-platformed the former President, she also states that people “don’t have a constitutional right to have their speech disseminated by private companies,” and that it is “dangerous to have a handful of callow young tech titans in charge of who has a megaphone and who does not.” We are not political leaders, but publishers are global leaders; how, and on whose terms, we use our voices matters.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: adtech, basic skills, computer science, CSS, digital literacy, equity, goals, HTML, Kathi Berens, learning, Michelle Goldberg, Portland State, publishing, surveillance capitalism, writing

Getting to Know Your Style Guide

By Erica Wright

December 28, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Getting to Know Your Style Guide

The best way to learn any style manual is to use it conscientiously and repeatedly, but there are a few other ways you can begin to build your skill before busting out that red pen.

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: CMOS, Editing, editorial best practices, Editors, familiarizing, learning, Style Guide, style manual, The Chicago Manual of Style

Ooligan Press: Making Books, Designing Careers

By Scott Fortmann

May 1, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ooligan Press: Making Books, Designing Careers

My much-younger classmates at Ooligan are in a very different phase of life. They are exactly where I was thirty-five years ago: they are trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives and how they want to start their careers. Ooligan gives these students a hands-on, immersive experience in the publishing process.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: accessible publishing, Authors, careers, hands-on, learning, Ooligan, purpose, skills, students, teaching, values

Confessions of a Comma Splicer

By Melinda Crouchley

January 20, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Confessions of a Comma Splicer

I’m here to confess to my comma-splicing crimes and help everyone else who’s guilty of comma splicing learn the error of their ways before it’s too late. Just kidding—it’s never too late to learn something new or relearn something old.

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: comma splice, commas, coordinating conjunction, editor, grammar, independent clauses, learning, mistakes, punctuation, semicolons, sentence structure, subordinate conjunction, writer

Experiential vs. Educational Learning

By Grace Hansen @thegracieve

January 3, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Experiential vs. Educational Learning

My friends and family were naturally curious when I shared my plans to start a master’s program in book publishing. Many asked why I needed further education to enter the publishing industry. Is a bachelor’s degree in English literature just a fun way to spend four years and thousands of dollars? So I applied for internships before I dove headfirst into another educational commitment. Microcosm Publishing of Portland, Oregon, was gracious enough to offer me an internship, and my personal experiment began. Would this internship be sufficient to teach me everything I wanted to learn about the industry in order to eventually get a full-time job?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: education, experience, higher education, Internship, learning, Microcosm, Portland, Publishing industry

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