Publicity Director
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The main duties of the ACL Publicity Director are to facilitate the publicizing of ACL research and accomplishments and help coordinate publicity efforts across the ACL organization. More specifically, the duties of the Publicity Director are to:
- Lead a new effort to publicize ACL research results to the scientific community and the public at large. This duty includes but is not limited to:
- Working with the ACL Anthology Director and the ACL IT Director to select and/or configure software for scientific publicizing efforts.
- Leading efforts to coach interested ACL members about how to make their research more understandable to and noticed by the public.
- Coordinate publicity efforts across ACL chapters, conferences, and the ACL proper. This duty includes but is not limited to:
- Working with the ACL IT Director, the heads of the ACL Chapters, the current Conference Chairs, and the Workshop Chairs to coordinating software selection, for web pages, blogs, and social media software for conferences and workshops.
- Informing the ACL Exec about issues that arise around social media usage or other aspects of publicity, and informing the membership about policy decisions the ACL Exec has made about publicity, social media usage, etc.