How You Can Help

But this is still a one man operation, with the help of one regular volunteer, Amanda Lang, who is our news link editor.

Notwithstanding, the volunteers who have come forward to help have made all the difference in helping OpEdNews.com grow so it can make a bigger and bigger difference. One of our first volunteers, a writer who has contributed numerous articles, has a job now, editing a newsletter in Washington DC, for people in Congress.

Some volunteers have done one-time efforts,  helping with layout, art, format, and some are regular helpers, sending in suggestions for articles we should link to. We can never have too much of this kind of help. Some people write letters and we work with them to become contributing writers or even bloggers.

Other Areas Where we need help:

Editors; to help evaluate the growing number of article submissions we receive and then publish them using our new system.

An RSS expert to help us add RSS feed functions to our website. .

a syndication editor-- to help update, on a daily basis the news syndication box we have on other people's websites.

Newsletter editor: to send out, on a daily basis, our links.

Artwork for Tee-shirts and other premium items we could use to raise funds.

Fundraising experts; We need help making this site work financially.

Web Design; We do content. OpEdNews can definitely use the help of a good web designer.

Logo Design for hats, shirts, our website header. This is an important one.

web programmers to add new features.

We know we need a number of different kinds of volunteers, and probably could use other volunteers we don't even know about.

Some more details.

Send us article Tips:  We have a great, growing team of readers who send us links to articles that they recommend we add to our Front page. SOme send us a few every day, some send one every few weeks. When you read an article or op-ed that looks perfect for OpEdNews.com, please send it to us. The format that works the best is the title of the article with the link embedded with it, just like they look on our cover page. If you can include the link and the actual article, you save us a few steps. Also, please mention the source or publication.  Don't worry about sending us something we may already have. Then, you'll be reinforcing our choices, that we're on target.

Contribute $ any amount helps. We have some projects that will take $500 and $1000. But we recently received a $3 paypal contribution and were happy to personally send a thank you email for it too.

Be a Supporter: If you like what we're doing, Get the word out. Tell the people on your e-mail lists about us. Add a link to your blog or website. Make sure you include our web address when you forward articles. If you go to a media website we've linked to, and then send the article on to a friend, add a comment that you found out about it at OpEdNews.com.

Contribute Content :  One of the main reasons we've created the OpEdNews.com website is to add another place for voices to be raised. We're looking for well written. smart opinion or news articles. At this time, there's no pay. We ask for permission to use the article and to re-print it a future time, but we leave you with all other rights to it. We're not using a lawyer (any lawyer volunteers?) and this policy may change as our learning curve climbs upwards. Check out our Writers Guidelines

ContributeVisual Content  really needed: we need graphics that we can use. Get out your digital camera and catch news happening. We'll take digital still shots of TV if the TV story is newsworthy. WE could also use original art.  At this time, there's no pay. We ask for permission to use the article and to re-print it a future time, but we leave you with all other rights to it. We're not using a lawyer (any lawyer volunteers?) and this policy may change as our learning curve climbs upwards.

Be A Field "news desk Editor" News desk editors dig up news and handle calls from people calling in news and PR. If you enjoy this website, then you can help dig up news articles  and op-ed articles that have been published on the web. Ideally, if you send these suggestions to us as active links, then it makes things much easier to check out and then add to the website. IN addition to needing people feeding in national, international and political news we need experts in the arts, sciences, health, media, business, technology, even sports, travel, self help, celebrity news and strange and unusual stuff. Regular helpers could become topic editors.

Web Site Experts: We need help automating some of the functions of the website, getting discussion boards, automatic uploading of press releases, etc., favorite articles, newsletter and newsletter sign-up.   Eventually, we'll probably need more significant hosting capacity.

Advisory Board; We're looking for prominent and or deep thinking, visionary leaders to help guide our growth and evolution.

Letters we seek editorial letters responding to editorials we either publish or link to.

Feedback We need feedback about the website-- suggestions, construction criticism of format, whatever.