Submissions To The NATOA News

NATOA News: Monthly e-Newsletter
Call for 2011 Articles

The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) is seeking articles for our 2011 monthly e-Newsletter NATOA News.  

Our readers include local government elected officials, city and county managers and their professional staff of local government responsible for broadband, communications, information technology, institutional networks, public, educational and government access channel production and distribution and attorneys, advisors and consultants to local government in the aforementioned areas. Their responsibilities range from broadband deployment, communications franchising, rights-of-way management and governmental access programming to information technologies and institutional network design, planning and management.

How to Contribute

Article Guidelines: NATOA News provides perspectives of individual local governments, advisors to local governments, the communications industry and other knowledgeable and interested entities. Contributing authors are requested to submit articles that provide insight into any aspect of promoting community interests in communications including legislative information, legal analysis, economic impact, technical considerations and communications-related issues affecting local governments generally. Submissions are welcomed and encouraged. All submissions become the property of NATOA and may not be individually reproduced or distributed without prior written consent.

Article Specifications: Submissions must be in Word or WordPerfect, approximately 1,000 words, spell and grammar checked, accompanied by a one-paragraph biography of the author, and with appropriate contact information including mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address.

Review Process: Each article submitted is subject to review by NATOA Staff and/or members of the Communications Committee. NATOA reserves the right to edit for style, clarity, length and gender neutrality.  No commercial solicitations within articles are permitted, and references to specific commercial entities may be removed. Articles may not be used to sell products or services. Authors are not guaranteed the opportunity to review the final edited version prior to publication. If the subject matter is timely and the article should be published within a specific timeframe, please be sure to specify that when the article is submitted.

Article Submissions:
Only electronic submissions will be considered. Please email Jennifer Harman at jharman@natoa.org.