This whole process of online editing is new, for me, for ASA, and for many societies. There are not many precedents. The main precedents we have are (a) journal editorial boards and (b) webmasters. My understanding of the intent of editing the ASA web site is to draw on the skills of the ASA Webmaster and ASA Staff while providing the intellectual direction one would expect in a journal.
The JASA Editorial Board has a Coordinating Editor, an Applications Editor, a Theory and Methods Editor and a Review Editor. They also have a large team of Associate Editors allied with appropriate editors. In some sense I wish to adopt this type of scheme, with a few modifications. First, the Editor shall serve as Coordinating Editor, with primary responsibility for the intellectual content of the site. The Editor shall delegate responsibility for subject areas to Associate Editors, who will have considerable autonomy, along the lines of Review Editor and T&M Editor for JASA. For instance, I expect Amstat Online AEs to develop their own "job descriptions" and missions. In addition, AEs would each recruit their own team of Assistant Editors to accomplish their mission.
The Amstat Online Editorial Board is responsible for the intellectual content of amstat.org. As such, an Associate Editor may benefit from technical skill, but need not per se be a web expert, in the same sense that a journal Editor need not be an expert in the mechanics of paper journal publication. The most important features are a vision of what is needed, and a commitment to build the written content with the assistance of a hand-picked team.
The new ASA Program Director for Services, Mary Fleming, is taking a leading role in the service end of ASA's web presence. Editors will work closely with Mary and me on many projects. The ASA has a Webmaster on staff--her name is Linda Javins. Linda runs the web site, and has front-line responsibility for the operation of the site. There are other staff that work with her on this, but that can wait until an Editor has specific needs. In a sense the webmaster and ASA staff provide the infrastructure support. In another sense, they want to use Amstat Online Editors to help do their job better.