What is the Department of Marketing?

The Department of Marketing was created at our administrative meeting in 2010 to handle the graphical needs of the organization, both internally and externally. The Department and its staff work to ensure that our image is professional and cohesive. This Department also handles our social media and external promotion.

What are the duties of this Department?

The Department Director manages and directs administrators and staff. S/he works with everyone in the Department to ensure that all official site marketing materials produced are professional and stylistically consistent.

The Editor-In-Chief of the TarValon Times compiles and edits our community news blog, and ensures that content in the TVT is engaging and informative.

The Outreach Activities Graphics Coordinator manages graphics for the Outreach Activities Team, which is housed in the Department of Community Outreach.

The Product Manager handles all of our accounts at different sites that provide products to members, such as CafePress or our Amazon Associates account. The Product Manager also serves as the Graphics Development Team lead within Marketing.

Reporters for the TarValon Times write articles, conduct interviews, and provide other content for the TVT.

The Tower Voices are responsible for updating our news feed with news about the series, Brandon Sanderson, Tor, the Jordan family/estate, and any other information that might be interesting to our members. The Tower Voices also manage our social media presence.

The Graphics Development Team forms the core of artists and designers who handle all official site graphics requests.

Emails within this Department

Editor-in-Chief of the TarValon Times

Department Director

News about our community, the series, the authors, and anything else related

Outreach Activities Graphics Coordinator

Product Manager

Tower Voice

Chain of Command

Flow chart detailing the Chain of Command for this Department.

Requests for graphics should be emailed to the Department Director. Potential news, whether about our community or the series, author, or something related, should be sent to the news email. Staff and administrators wishing to raise concerns or retire should contact the Department Director. If all of these avenues have been exhausted, then you should approach the Keeper. Please give everyone ample time to respond before moving up the chain of command.