Hello!

Remember when I put that ad up for a Social Media Coordinator/Editorial Assistant, way back in September? Well, a lot of really talented people came out. It was humbling and extremely exciting.

Slowly, very slowly over the years, I have added the required social media channels, newsletter, and carefully designed photos that work in Facebook. I say "slowly" because it all takes time and coordination to make sure it flows, visually and editorially, for you, the reader.

When I agreed with myself to do The Things To Do In Beacon Guides, I knew I couldn't do it alone. I needed a team. It takes a special set of skills to balance the fun part of blogging with the scientific part of keeping an editorial calendar in Google Docs to make sure we get all of our ideas written up, photographed, and socialized. Not everyone looks forward to getting Google Alerts from Google Calendar that certain articles need to publish on certain days. But some people do! And I am honored to work with a few of them. So without further ado, please meet...

Marilyn Perez is a designer and blog tech specialist. She actually works for one of the first blogging platforms I fell in love with by way of helping the blogs of those writers work correctly. Marilyn was first known to me as Pulp Sushi, a jewelry designer who I followed in Twitter. She's also one of the designers on the Hudson Valley Etsy Team. Marilyn loves Pinterest, and scheduling. Therefore, she is A Little Beacon Blog's official Pinterest Curator! Read her announcement blog post about it here! She helps to keep the gears moving smoothly when we promote different Guides in the Things To Do In Beacon Guides, and also when businesses who advertise in those Guides get socialized. It means we look at an Excel spreadsheet of which stories get published when, and which Guides get promoted! Color coordinating helps. View her full bio here!

Catherine Sweet loves copy editing. She is actually going to come in here to this article and edit the word "copyediting" to see if it is "copyediting" or "copy editing" or even "copy-editing." (Note from Catherine: Various style guides disagree on this. I like to be consistent with using two words, so it parallels "copy editor," which almost all of the style guides have as two words always. Digging into style questions makes me make a perplexed-amused face, as seen above.) Catherine also loves researching, enhancing blog posts with historical references from other blog posts, and writing social media blurbs. She is on a stealth mission to clean up typos and sentences that are too long, and make sure things read smoothly. Catherine is the Editor of the Second Saturday Guide, and compiles write-ups of the shows, and then tweets out every single show throughout the day on Saturday to help get people excited about it. Catherine was one of the first winners of the Where Is This? contest. View her full bio here!

Leigh Baumann is obsessed with good imagery. Leigh is in charge of the advertiser photos in the Things To Do In Beacon Guides, when businesses upgrade to become advertisers in them. She is the social media photographer who we send in to take special photos to display in those Guides, and in our Twitter and Instagram feeds. Leigh also designs special ads for our major sponsors, the Featured Businesses of the entire blog, who support this publication and make it possible. In addition to the visual contributions Leigh makes, she is also a foodie, and if she had a journalistic beat, restaurants would be it! Therefore, Leigh is the Editor of the Restaurant Guide in Beacon and keeps it up to date! View her full bio here!

A few more people work with A Little Beacon Blog in different capacities, so do check them out on the About Us page!

HUGE THANK YOU to everyone!