Getting some practice

The Project Management Institute, Mass Bay Chapter, December Newsletter has just been published with 2 articles I wrote and another that I edited. This is my first excursion into this area of local volunteer work.
The first article is a member profile of Ellen DePaul, Leader of the chapter's Project Manager Career Connections and Big Sister Association of Boston, Big Sister of the Year 2005. It describes her work with both the chapter and her Little Sister. Writing the article involved, researching both organizations, interviewing Ellen, obtaining photos and permissions from the subject and Big Sisters. The whole thing was pulled together in 5 days.

The second article is a summary of a longer article by Robert Sommer, written to add punch and relevance. It asks the reader questions and proposes solutions as to how to get the most from networking on line and outside of chapter meetings.

The third article is a complete rewrite of chapter speaker report, which was unfocused as written. Note that I get no credit for editing and rewriting (but that's OK, I need the practice).

I spent a few conference calls, listening to the Project Manager Career Connections (PMCC) team trying to catch up with who was doing what and pulled together all the information, publishing it on collaboration wiki site.
General consensus is that this is a useful repository, but team members need help in using a wiki type tool and are unsure of the value of them sharing information in this way rather than by emails. I know from my experience that once they become accustomed to the fact that any signed up member can change, improve and add to any document they will wonder how they managed without it.