9 The College and the American Association of Dental Editors and Journalists (AADEJ) worked together in 2021 to arrange and execute a trial affiliation agreement, which will become permanent in 2022. Letters of welcome were extended to ACD Fellows and members of AADEJ by both presidents, Drs. Leo Rouse and Brian Shue.
Helping Dental Organizations Communic Their Members and Publics Nota Bene November 2021
The American College of AADEJ Needs a Stronger Web Presence all AADEJ members and organizations— Dentists is Calling Share your expertise. We need help on two fronts: delighted to Gracefully Closing Our Current Site AADEJ has been working with an “inherited” site that is announce the gradually becoming irrelevant. We need help carefully addition ofwinding our down this system. 53rd section— Designing and Implementing a New Site the AADEJ. AADEJ needs to have a web presence that is a model for dental organizations. Challenges include design, site selection, and set up.
It is with great anticipation of enhancing The American Association of Dental Editors & communication in the profession that or weiswelcome Is there someone in your organization who knows Squarespace interested in the big pict Journalists was chartered in 1931 and is composed of the American Association of Dental Editors and Perhaps you have some other good contacts. Contact Stuart Segelnick at eperiodr@aol.com. dedicated people specifically interested in improving Journalists as a non-geographic section of the communication within the dental profession and in American College of Dentists. The Board of Regents elevating the standards of dental journalism. The of ACD and the Board of Directors of AADEJ have organization is committed to the establishment andBuilding Program: Skill Social Media Overview approved a one-year trial affiliation, during which encouragement of responsible editorial policy. Prior Friday, 3 December for about 2½ hours, beginning at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom platform we will work out administrative details. This to its founding, the AADEJ was aligned with the ACD media is about time “Social finding your reflection online for a moment of micro-fame.” is similar to the status of the American Society for Commission on Journalism and there was a shared –Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants. (Recently appointed to the presidential commission on so Dental Ethics in the College, which ACD Fellows mission to advance communication efforts in order to may join based on their professional interests elevate the standards in the profession of dentistry. in addition to their geographic section. Our Today, we view this collaboration as more crucial partnership also provides a pipeline to Fellowship than ever before. We seek a broad audience to for AADEJ members who are on a trajectory listen to and to learn from. We share a common to leadership in dental writing and editing. belief that listening is the foundational tenet of The editors’ organization was founded in 1930 by communication that is often overlooked, and we William Gies and other Fellows of the College as a intend to more fully engage in active listening. Of result of the work of its Commission on Journalism. this we are certain, organizations of the future will AADEJ helps dental organizations strengthen their need to understand and be able to use a rapidly communication with members and the publics expanding array of emerging technologies. These they serve. The ACD and the AADEJ already have Nathaniel Lawson, Timothy Vassilakos, Director, technologies are designed to extend the individual’s Biomaterials Director, Strategic Business a joint code of ethics in dental journalism. and organization’s communication capacities. University of Alabama Operations, Henry Schein in raisingasthe level of a remote Overview of Social Media We urge you to join us Instagram The AADEJ invites all those interested in enhancing instructional platform communication in the ACD and the profession. communication to consider active membership in this non-geographic section of the College.
Leo E. Rouse, DDS, FACD President, American College of Dentists
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Brian K. Shue, DDS, FACD President, American Association of Dental Editors and Journalists
2021–2022 Volume 88, Number 4
