Time to move on – the need to end this blog
Posted: March 7, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentSince someone recently encountered this blog, I thought it important to reiterate that this blog is no longer being updated. So sorry.
To see what I am doing now, visit tstargos.com. Have a great day.
HISTORY
I started this blog in late 2010 to see how Word Press worked – it was in order to say that I had experience with the blogging site to state it in a job application. I did not get that job.
I then used this site for a class I was at talking in the winter of 2011 on Visual Literacy at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). I rarely posted to it and frankly no one – not even my instructor read it.
Once the MIAD class ended in April 2011, I occasionally posted examples of my work that I thought would worth sharing – I mean to say documenting. I stopped posting as soon as started getting busy with two jobs, the end of my studies at Gateway Technical College, volunteer work and try to find a job to use my project management skills. My…
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This Blog / WebSite No Longer Used
Posted: March 7, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentFor more up-to-date information on my work, please visit http://www.tstargos.com.
Work Progress – Example of an Obituary page from the Delavan Enterprise
Posted: October 25, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: writing Leave a commentAs an editorial assistant at the Delavan Enterprise weekly newspaper, I was responsible for writing all obituaries (based information received from families and funeral homes) and laying out the content for the obituary page – this also meant writing/editing other articles and news briefs for the page.
The attached example is from the Obituary page (page 4) from the October 22, 2011 edition of the Delavan Enterprise.
Time to move on – the need to end this blog
Posted: October 25, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ending 1 CommentHISTORY
I started this blog in late 2010 to see how Word Press worked – it was in order to say that I had experience with the blogging site to state it in a job application. I did not get that job.
I then used this site for a class I was at talking in the winter of 2011 on Visual Literacy at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). I rarely posted to it and frankly no one – not even my instructor read it.
Once the MIAD class ended in April 2011, I occasionally posted examples of my work that I thought would worth sharing – I mean to say documenting. I stopped posting as soon as started getting busy with two jobs, the end of my studies at Gateway Technical College, volunteer work and try to find a job to use my project management skills. My last post was almost a year ago.
WHY END THE BLOG
Now, as I am looking to update my “digital presence” (such as a new look to my website tstargos.com), I thought it was time to bring this blog to closure as well.
If you are interested in seeing more recent samples of my project management and technical communications work, please visit tstargos.com.
Thanks for visiting.
Work Activity Sample – Ad produced for the Kenosha Community Foundation to celebrate an NAACP event
Posted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Ad created for the Kenosha Community Foundation to commemorate the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner
Work Activity Sample – Obituary Page from the Delavan (WI) Enterprise
Posted: October 3, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentOne of my main responsibilities as a copy and production editor at the Delavan Enterprise is to write/edit all obituaries and death notices (they need to adhere to AP Stylebook standards) . I also layout the Obituary page of the newspaper (which is always page 4) and post all obituaries/death notices to the publishers news page (go to mywalworthcounty.com).
Below find a PDF of the obituary page from the Sept. 22, 2011 edition of the Delavan Enterprise:
My Experience Writing / Working for a Local Newspaper
Posted: August 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentIn 2010, I began writing for Southern Lakes Newspapers which publishes the local, many free newspapers for communities in southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
Since the beginning of my experience with So. Lakes Newspapers, I have been (continue to be) a contributing writer to the Newspaper’s lifestyle magazine – The Breeze. Previously, I have posted some of the articles that I developed for The Breeze on this blog – at the end of this post find a PDF of a recent example.
Click on the link below to view an article on spring gardening tips that was published early this summer:
The Breeze June 2011 Gardening
In 2011, I joined the editorial staff of one of the newspapers – the Delavan Enterprise. In this part-time position, among my responsibilities:
1) edit copy for the paper – obituaries, death notices, local sports scores, birth/wedding announcements, letters to the editor, spot news
2) contribute to the newspaper’s newsblog (see www.mywalworthcounty.com)
NOTE: I was scheduled to take a newswriting course at Columbia College this summer (and considered taking it this fall) but it cost over $1,000 and would have involved a three-four commute to Chicago, twice-a-week. With my job at the Delavan Enterprise, I am learning/practicing the same concepts that were to be covered in the class, but now I am getting paid for it (and the office is only 40 minutes from where I live).
How I Got Started
I saw a free publication – The Breeze – and say that the publishers were looking for story submissions. I emailed the editor and proposed a story that was based on an idea on independent, local coffee houses in Kenosha County (I had come up for the idea for a faux magazine cover for a Photoshop class I was taking. A month I had completed coffee house visits, interviews with owners and photos of shops – the article was published.
A month after that the check for the stories and photos arrived (which I used to buy a new iPod Nano). A year later and I am still hooked and I can official call feature writing my hobby.
“Mini-Flyer” Postcard: Kenosha Sculpture Walk
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Graphics, Uncategorized Leave a commentTo support a presentation by the Kenosha Sculpture Walk project team, I was developed a handout for presentation attendees. I used Microsoft Publisher (part of the MS 2007 Office Suite) to develop this postcard- sized “mini-flyer”:
Why I Chose this Format
As the project only had a few facts to share with the public (for examples no sculptures had been chosen for the walk and no firm project timelines were set by the date of the presentation), a full brochure or even an 81/2″ by 11″ page flyer would been too empty. A smaller postcard format was used.
Why I Used Microsoft Publisher 2007
Ordinarally, I would have used Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress to develop such a “mini-flyer”. However, it is my policy as writer to create materials that the client can change, adapt or update on systems they already have on their systems and are familiar with. I have found MS Publisher to a good page layout program.
Besides, MS Publisheer is a good program to use with Avery templates.
Poster Developed for the Kenosha Community Foundation
Posted: July 10, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
This poster presents the front and back of a brochure designed for the Foundation as a part of a joint development project.
I created the poster from a brochure about the Foundation’s Charitable Gift Annuity program – a student at University of Wisconsin Parkside (Amanda McCann) designed the graphics in the brochure, while I wrote the text (which you can read if you zoom in close).
In Process: New Business Set & Web Portfolio Design
Posted: July 9, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentAfter six months, that included two design classes at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), feedback from local writers and graphic arts folk, hours of lynda.com training and just going back to the drawing board, I will refresh both my business set (biz card, stationary) and portfolio website (tstargos.com).
The new design will follow the follow a “personal brochure” that I first developed at MIAD and have further refined during at the computer labs at Gateway Technical College. See the attached graphics gallery below:
The new business cards should be ready soon. My plan is to change/redeploy the web site, after I develop a new wireframe/storyboard on Fireworks and construct/test the re-freshed site on Dreamweaver.
TS Targos 