Still slowly plugging away at this writing thing....

[mariedeblois]

I pulled out something today that I haven't worked on in a month or two and did a little bit more updating to it, and realized that soon I'm going to need feedback and more ideas on what I'm forgetting.

This is the article "A Brief Treatise on the Care and Feeding of a College of Heralds" (aka "How to be a good principal herald"). So, without

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[masahide]

How about things like workable reporting structures, organization processes, deputies and division of duties, etc.

I think it would also be good to include a checklist of duties to be performed at various times, etc.

[mariedeblois]

I've got some stuff like that, but due to significant inter-kingdom differences, I think a checklist is probably difficult-to-impossible to make (or make useful).

What kinds of reporting structures and organizations would you suggest? I've got some ideas (and indeed some are already in my draft), but I'd be interested to hear other suggestions.

[masahide]

On the checklists, I was thinking things like "send out reminders of quarterly reports due on X dates; Yearly in Summer (by X date) put out requests for bids for Kingdom Heralds and Scribes" that kind of thing

[mariedeblois]

Those are some good questions a PH should consider, indeed. I don't think there's a One True Way that would work for everyone, so I don't want to be very prescriptivist in the nitty gritty details, but putting some ideas on possible ways seems like a good idea. Thanks!

[masahide]

Another thought on checklists.

I actually disagree about it being less useful because of inter-kingdom differences. Having a set of checklists with specific topics and relevant dates to act as examples of the work done and timelines for doing it would be very helpful to a lot of people. Even if it doesn't directly apply, it can get people thinking about what does apply in their case, and offers timelines which would be useful for similar activities.

[mariedeblois]

By the by - I am at the point of having a first draft. Would you still be interested in reading it?

[masahide]

Sure!