Wow, I'm glad to see someone on CE doing this! While I've few things to say, expect a response from Mr. Mayur Pathak (our editor-in-chief) who used to be on editorial team during his college days & his team did a fantastic job (every year!).
We also have Patty (CE - Editor) , who's on the editorial team of his college magazine, who can help you with your magazine.
Here we go -
1. First of all, make sure that you have a permission to launch departmental magazine from everyone who is concerned (possibly, Principal & HOD)
2. Next, form a core team of people who are passionate about launching the magazine & making it successful in the department. Make sure you only have PASSIONATE (all caps!) people in the magazine team; otherwise the whole magazine thing will go from being fun to being pain in bum.
PS: Be careful. There are tons of people who want an extra bullet under 'extra-curricular' activities section on their resume.
3. Once the team is formed - decide who's going to do what. Let the team members volunteer. The aim is not to come up with a 50 page glossy magazine. I'd rather say, make it a 5 - 8 page magazine and load it with lot of good content!
4. Announce the launch of magazine in department and ask for articles, interesting project reports, tips & tricks etc. to all the students. Get your juniors working (
)on writing articles & collecting stuff from internet. Tell them
NOT TO COPY original/copyrighted stuff from the Internet. Encourage originality. If department permits, launch a small competition for 'best article', 'best submission' etc.
5. Try to get that shiny laser printer in HOD's department to print your magazine
.
6. Do not forget to ask your HOD & Principal to write guest columns in your magazine and make sure that they appear on the first 2 pages; for obvious reasons.
7. Interview the most popular professor in your department & also try to get a local famous personality (preferably related to mechanical engineering) to write something for you; if not, interview him/her
8.
Most importantly :- Write an article about CrazyEngineers! Our editorial team will definitely help you to write an article about us
!
9. Share your progress & success story with us so that we all are more proud of having you on CE!
What I've written above is the overview of things you will be / should be doing for your magazine.
All the best! We all look forward to hearing from you!
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