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Paula
Monahan, Publisher |
Happy
holidays and welcome to the
North Carolina Journal for Women!
It gives me great joy in giving you
what has been several months in the making. After several long
months in the planning and development stage, I am pleased to
finally present to you the very first issue of this online
women's publication.
When the idea struck me to
develop what has now become this site, I knew that it had to be
something different, something special and most of all, something
that would allow me to reach out and connect with other
women at once. As the days turned into weeks and the weeks
turned into months, ideas, like visions of sugarplums, danced about
in my head. What should I call the site? What and who should the
site be about? How and where would I find interesting and meaningful
content that would be worthy of returning readers? Where
would I possibly find the time to weave all of this together while
working a full time job, keeping house, and caring for my family.
My list of questions grew bigger and bigger. But
so did my excitement! I began to put my ideas, concepts and action
items down on paper. What started out as a seemingly simple idea
several months back had taken firm root and quickly snowballed
into an unstoppable self-driven project.
Just a note, too.
You'll notice that throughout the site many words have been bolded.
These "scan words" will help your eyes
glide across each page of interest so that you can move on to the
next page, read what's important to you, and move on with the rest
of your day. Think of the bolded and highlighted words as paragraph
and text anchor points. Not only is plain text is flat and boring,
but it also causes eye strain. Hyperlinks will,
as usual, be underlined and in blue.
In this first issue, you will
meet several great women who have chosen to write
short articles that might be of interest to you. As the site grows,
so will the links to other fun and interesting content areas. I
welcome AND invite your participation and feedback
on ways to improve the site and content, which women to feature,
and so on. If you know someone who has an interesting story to share,
please have her contact
me. Ideally, my objective for this online publication is to
mirror other women's magazines, but on a much smaller scale. Each
month the content will vary, so make sure you "pick
up a copy" online of the next month's issue.
A few weeks ago,
I began asking myself who should I feature on the very first "front
cover" of the NCJournalforWomen.com. Several ideas
came to mind, and as holiday season approached with all of the fun-filled
commercials for children's toys the answer became clear.
Before I tell you how and why I decided on the cover person, let
me tell you about my four and half year old son. As each day passed
taking us closer to the biggest spending season of the year, the
television channels became packed with more and more toy commercials.
And with each toy commercial that splashed across the screen, my
son, who is at that age of believing in Santa Claus,
has said everyday without fail, "Mom, put that on my
list!" or "Tell Santa to bring me that toy; I want that
on my Santa Claus list, too." Given the frequency
of how often I hear those words, I decided to make up my own list
for Santa, give it to him personally and have some
fun of my own. Take a look and you will see. What fun I had visiting
Santa. Too many long years have passed since I sat on the
jolly ol' man's lap. It did bring back childhood memories
of long ago.
And so, as that old familiar
holiday story is told over and over again, year in and year out,
I hope you will take the time to enjoy the season and take time
for yourself. Perhaps you will indulge yourself this
season and have your photo taken with Santa!
Merry Christmas to all and to all
a good night.
Paula Monahan
Publisher
and Editor
NCJournalforWomen.com
Special thanks
to the following...
Jimmy Allen, the Creative
Image- for cover photography.
Crabtree Valley Mall
for the cover shot location.
Santa Al for cover talent.
|
 A
resident
of
Raleigh,
North
Carolina,
Paula
Monahan
is
a
past
President
of
the
American
Marketing
Association,
Triangle
Chapter.
With
over
fifteen
years
of
experience
in
sales
and
marketing,
Paula
is
putting
all
of
her
learned
skills
and
talents
to
good
use
in
this
online
publication
for
women.
As
a
way
of
reaching
out
and
connecting
with
women
from
a
variety
of
backgrounds,
her
goal
is
to
create
a
networked
community
of
online
women
readers
who
value
inspiring,
insightful
and
empowering
content.
Paula Monahan, Publisher
NC Journal for Women
paulamonahan@earthlink.net
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award winning journalist, Linda Ray is also an editor. In addition to
editing the Journal, Linda runs a freelance editing and writing business.
She will gently massage, or completely rewrite, your material—as
you wish. No job is too small for her—and no job too big, yet. Her
freelance work includes interviews, research and writing for business
magazines, ghost writing, Web page editing, and writing and editing marketing
material.
During the day, Linda sells new and previously rented furniture at CORT
Clearance Center on New Hope Church Road in Raleigh. She is known for
finding just the right pieces at just the right price point for her clients.
All readers of the North Carolina Journal for Women will receive a 10
percent discount if you mention this publication when you go see her
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