You may have a point about the split between Chronicler and Web Minister. I may be responsible for that, at least in the East, as I proposed it to Curia during my tenure as Kingdom Chronicler. I'm not sure now if that predates the split at the Society level or not. At the time it seemed like a good solution to a number of issues - local chroniclers who were resistant to allowing web pages at all, power struggles between the chronicler and people wanting to put up a web site for the group, and a whole lot of stuff related to the web being a shiny, new technology that no one was quite sure how to use. I think splitting off the web minister position helped give it a chance to mature and become the useful thing it is today. However it may well be that the time for that split has passed, and we should rethink the division again.
I think there's one huge fly in the ointment though - right now the positions of both Chronicler and Web Minister come with a lot of very specific rules handed down from above, aimed at letting the SCA, Inc. keep control of its public image. It would be much more challenging to codify rules for a general communications position, and therefore I think it will be resisted strenuously at top levels.
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Date: 2011-11-29 11:27 pm (UTC)I think there's one huge fly in the ointment though - right now the positions of both Chronicler and Web Minister come with a lot of very specific rules handed down from above, aimed at letting the SCA, Inc. keep control of its public image. It would be much more challenging to codify rules for a general communications position, and therefore I think it will be resisted strenuously at top levels.