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Divide and Conquer: Management at Ooligan Press

By Bayley McComb @tweetsthings

November 20, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Divide and Conquer: Management at Ooligan Press

The entirely student-run Ooligan Press is divided into several tiers of management, including team members, project managers, and department leads, all of whom are overseen by Portland State University faculty.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Indie Publishing, management, master's in book publishing, Ooligan, publishing, working press

Too Many Cooks? Management at Ooligan Press

By Hazel Wright

July 15, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Too Many Cooks? Management at Ooligan Press

Ooligan has several department managers who most closely correlate to positions you would find in a standard press, including a digital department lead, a design lead, a social media lead, a marketing lead, a copy chief, a managing editor, two acquisitions leads, and two publisher’s assistants. For anyone keeping track, that’s ten department managers. There are independent presses all over the country that operate with an entire staff of fewer than ten people, let alone ten managers. But the truth is, Ooligan doesn’t operate with ten managers: it operates with seventeen.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: books, Collaboration, department, groups, Independent Publishing, leadership, management, managers, oversight, process, projects, small press, structure, teams, workers

Students in the Workplace: The Gray Area of Being Both a Student and a Professional

By Alyssa Schaffer

September 18, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Students in the Workplace: The Gray Area of Being Both a Student and a Professional

As the halfway point of my time here at Ooligan draws near, my effort in learning and my effort in applying that knowledge has started to even out. It is in this balancing that I’ve found an experience that is unique to Ooligan Press: navigating the murky waters of career development by simultaneously being a publishing professional and a student still gaining the knowledge and experience needed to break into publishing after graduation.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Career, community, development, graduate school, management, publishing

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