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The Communications Department of The Augustan Society, Inc., includes all forms of communication, including publications, letters, email, web sites, and electronic fora. The policies established by this department apply to all others.

The chairman of the Communications Department is styled Editor-in-Chief who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the President. Note, this post has been assigned to Consuls per their Contract, but they are willing to step aside should the President find a candidate he prefers.

The department is under the nominal direction of the Communications Committee, chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, and including the chairmen of each of the immediate subsidiary committees, such members as the Editor-in-Chief may see fit to appoint, and the President and Headquarters Staff ex officio.

Chairmen for each of the activities listed below are named by the Editor-in-Chief. Their titles may be Chairman, Editor, Webmaster, or something else specific and appropriate. In the vacancy of any, the tasks revert up.

Primary activities of the Department are scheduled using the Communications Calendar. These may be subdivided into several categories:

Current Periodicals

• Augustæum, the Society's bi-monthly newsletter
• The Augustan Omnibus, the Society's semi-annual journal
• Rosarum, (formerly Noble Company of the Rose Newsletter of the Noble Company of the Rose)

Back Issue Sales

• Back Issue Sales, which includes scanning, digitizing, and reformatting. This project is assigned to the Communications Department under the Editor-in-Chief.

Reprints

Reprints are offered of collected articles on a single topic. In rare cases, a reprint will be made of one article if it is of particular value. Single-article reprints in the catalog will be discontinued as stock is sold out. As the underlying magazines are digitized, the reprints will also be digitized and printed on demand once physical stock is sold out.

Books

The Society has a program of book publication. A number of titles have been published, both in hardcover and softbound. This program should be under the direction of a Books Editor who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Editor-in-Chief. He may, in turn, appoint Editors for each book or series contemplated.

The contents of the books may be assigned to the Communications Department, to another Society Committee, or to an author (with a separate Editor), as may best suit each situation.

Book Standards

Printing standards:

• Size A — printed on 11×17" stock folded, trimmed as needed.
• Size A/2 — printed on 8½×11" stock folded, trimmed as needed.

Binding:

• Hardcover — goldenrod cloth ¾ binding, with black cloth spine and gold imprint. Note: This is the opposite of the rebinding standard.
• Softcover — Cover art may be at the discretion of the editor, but the spine shall be black with goldenrod text. The American standard will be used for vertical text orientation.
• Maximum page count per volume — not yet determined, but expected to be in the range 300pp for size A, 200pp for size A/2, 100pp for paperback.

Titles

The following titles are presently in work:

Rolls of Arms

This is a continuing series of publications. To date, three volumes of the Augustan Society Roll of Arms have been published in a black & white format (though Volume III did include some color plates). Future publications proposed, all in full color, are:

1. Rose Role of Arms, Editor is the Rose Herald under the Noble Company of the Rose
2. Augustan Society Roll of Arms Vol. IV, Rolls Editor under the Communications Department
3. Augustan Society Roll of Arms Vol. I, Editor-in-Chief under the Communications Department
4. Augustan Society Roll of Arms Vol. II, Editor-in-Chief under the Communications Department
5. Augustan Society Roll of Arms Vol. III, Editor-in-Chief under the Communications Department
6. Augustan Society Roll of Arms Vol. V, Rolls Editor under the Communications Department (pending sufficient registrations)

The Rose Roll is first as it will serve as a test bed. It will also be softcover in size A/2, while the others will be hardcover.

Descents from Antiquity Resource Kit

Editor: Descents from Antiquity Coordinator. At present there are no unresolved descents to publish, thus the Descents from Antiquity Study Group is presently dormant.

Other Titles

• A Continuation of Paget's Ancestry of the Prince of Wales, by Arthuer Germond
• Vigil: A Knight's Training Program
• Revised Little Manual of Heraldry
• Revised Guide to Orders of Chivalry
• Chinese Imperial Genealogy by Joseph Uphoff
• A Select Genealogy of India's Royal Families by Joseph Uphoff

None has an Editor assigned at present, save that the Guide to Orders of Chivalry has become a project of the Chivalry Committee.

Web Services

• Main Website, hosted by EasyNetSites

• Online Armorial and Ordinary
• Heraldry Index

• Online Store, hosted at RimuHosting
• Library Catalog, OPAC hosted at RimuHosting
• Staff Wiki, hosted at RimuHosting
• AugustanBoard YahooGroup, hosted at Yahoo.com
• AugustanConvert YahooGroup, hosted at Yahoo.com
• AugustanHeraldry YahooGroup, hosted at Yahoo.com

Email

This section covers the Society email forwarding system, the ENS Blast email system, email naming conventions, and email etiquette.

Social Media

As public discourse is increasingly taking place online, and particularly in various social media venues, it is appropriate that we have an officer who focuses on this topic. The Social Media Chairman is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Editor-in-Chief.

His duties are to determine which venues deserve a Society presence, and to solicit Moderators for each. At present, these include:

• The Forum on the Society's main website;
• A Facebook page;
• A Linked-In pages that presently exists as only a placeholder;
• The AugustanBoard YahooGroup for discussion of Board issues with Directors, Headquarters Staff, and select Committee Chairmen as members;
• The AugustanHeraldry YahooGroup for discussion of Heraldry Committee issues and file transfers; and
• The AugustanConvert YahooGroup for dissemination of files to those involved in the Back Issue Digitizing Study Group and the Photograph Collection Study Group.

These YahooGroups are of questionable utility and dubious reliability. It may prove prudent to move these discussion to either the Forum or to new services installed on our virtual server.

Staff

• The Department is led by a chairman styled Editor-in-Chief.
• Editors are named for each title (periodical and book).
• A Production Editor is responsible for all print publications.
• All web services are led by the Webmaster, including websites and email.
• Each individual website has its own Assistant Webmaster.
• Email has a Postmaster.

The Editor-in-Chief serves in these lesser roles when such offices are vacant, they are not permitted to go dormant.

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