When I first started at The Wall I signed on as a normal staffer. We did have a website
at Yahoo Groups but it was very disorganized and many manuscripts were falling
through the cracks. Wanting more organization and tracking of work flow, I asked the
Editor-in-Chief for permission to do some renovating.
In no time, I had reorganized and set-up a system to track flow of each indiviual manuscript.
I quickly became the person that kept an eye on the progress of each manuscript. I talked
to the staff individually to motivate and keep them on track. I reported back to the
Editor-in-Chief on progress, things that needed to be done, and later consulted on the best
order for the magazine.
It wasn't until just before the magazine went to press that I was deemed Managing Editor.
Knowing that I would not be back, as I was transfering to CalPoly, I put
together a binder of my track-flow system for the next managing editor and called it
"The Window."