SFFANZ News
Oct. 12th, 2010 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysI did reference this when I was setting it up, but now that we have been running for a few weeks, I should describe it properly. The thing is at Au Contraire, rather to my surprise, I ended up back on the SFFANZ board. I didn't actually expect to actually do much, but as a result of early discussions about the role of the organisation and the press function, I ended up setting up a news blog site for SFFANZ.
The site is http://sffanz.wordpress.com/. Basically it is a blog of news items around the sf genre stuff which is related to New Zealand in some way. The important functional thing is that it feeds to other services - Facebook, Twitter, LJ, DW etc. That way you can have some flexibility in the way you read it and we won't be spamming your inbox. The info about finding those feeds is here.
Of course, all that is straightforward stuff these days. The key to any news service is ensuring that it has plenty of good content. So if you have any genre related news that is specifically relevant to a New Zealand audience, then please let us know. You know the sort of things, book launches by NZ authors, visiting authors, film events, workshops, zombies vs steampunk battles, new websites and so forth. Send the info to the email address listed on the site.
The site is http://sffanz.wordpress.com/. Basically it is a blog of news items around the sf genre stuff which is related to New Zealand in some way. The important functional thing is that it feeds to other services - Facebook, Twitter, LJ, DW etc. That way you can have some flexibility in the way you read it and we won't be spamming your inbox. The info about finding those feeds is here.
Of course, all that is straightforward stuff these days. The key to any news service is ensuring that it has plenty of good content. So if you have any genre related news that is specifically relevant to a New Zealand audience, then please let us know. You know the sort of things, book launches by NZ authors, visiting authors, film events, workshops, zombies vs steampunk battles, new websites and so forth. Send the info to the email address listed on the site.