District Calendar of Events

We’ve all experienced it – we schedule a meeting only to find out that there are other meetings already scheduled that conflict. Here’s the solution - the district event calendar is a new tool to assist departments in planning meetings and events. Departments enter activities occurring in their areas on the district calendar. Other departments can access the calendar to see these events. If we all use it, we can avoid those annoying conflicts in scheduling when events impact more than one department.

The district calendar is located on the employee section of the GCS Web site http//www.gcsnc.net/employees.htm.  Click on the district calendar link on the right side of the page under employee resources.  When the calendar page comes up, you can click on the ‘log in’ button and enter your username and password, and your department calendar will come up.

For more information about the calendar or to schedule additional training, please contact Rick Cobb, director of professional development at 378-8811.

GCS Style Guide

Affect or effect? Comma or semicolon? If you don’t know the answer, or aren’t sure, the GCS communications style guide can help!  Every day, letters, publications, brochures, emails leave GCS and go out into the community. To maintain consistency throughout the district, the District Relations Department developed this easy-to-use style guide, which covers many areas of communication, written and electronic, including but not limited to the following:

• E-mail  signature protocol
• Logo standard for all publications, letterhead and any other materials from GCS
• District stationery style
• Publication standards
• Editorial style and punctuation
• GCS common words and acronym usage

Click here www.gcs.com/community2/style_guide.htm.