Looking for a few more moderators for CON.TXT discussions

[axiom_of_stripe]

The CON.TXT 2014 panel schedule is coming together, but we still have a few popular panels without moderators:

• Celebrating Femslash - From Xena/Gabrielle through Buffy/Faith to Pepper/Natasha. Whether they're best friends, bitter enemies, or characters who don't even talk to each other in canon, but totally should, let's talk about the pairings and possibilities of femslash. What are some of your favorite fandoms, characters, and tropes? Which writers do you follow to any fandom? Which stories do you have bookmarked to read over and over? Which Femslash Friday posts at The Toast make you pump your fist and go, "Hell, yeah!"? What femslash stories do you hope someone will go home and write tomorrow?


• How To Put Fandom On Your Resume Without Putting Fandom On Your Resume - Brainstorming session! Fandom teaches critical-thinking skills, fosters an international community, provides a basic understanding of how life on the internet works, and other important life skills you can totally use professionally without necessarily telling your boss that you read 100K words of explicit Kirk/Spock a week. (Unless you want to.)


• Star Trek: Let's Talk Trek - From Kirk/Spock all the way through the years, let's talk about Star Trek and all its various permutations!


• Tag, you're it!: Tagging for fun and profit - Tags - on Tumblr, on AO3, on DW and Pinboard - tags are everywhere. How do tags work? What are the most effective ways to tag your fannish content so it can be found? What are the most effective ways to use tags to find content? Why does fandom love tags so much, and why do tags love us so much? Also an AO3 tag wrangler will be around to answer AO3-tagging-specific-questions.

Please drop a note to panels@con-txt.net if you're interested in modding one (or more) of these! We're happy to talk you through our handy moderating how-to guide if you're willing to jump in and lead a discussion.

Thank you! We can't con without you. :)

Comments

[starfish]

It's entirely possible that I am missing something really obvious, but I can't find a description/overview of these panels anywhere. Halp?

[axiom_of_stripe]

Whoops, you are right, they aren't available anywhere else right now! Descriptions have now been added to this post.

[melannen]

I would love to mod the tags one if you want to take me off one of the ones that has a co-mod already. (or uh even if you don't.) ^_^

[melannen]

And I could probably mod or co-mod the resume one, given that I'm p. sure the OTW got me my current job.

[starlady]

I'm willing to mod or co-mod the tags or the fandom resume one.