Mastering Technology

On January 1st I started a new volunteer position in a fellowship. The Communications position involves two things: getting out information to members, and putting together a newsletter.

After figuring out the information part of the job, I turned to the newsletter part. The newsletter hasn't been published for a couple of years, so I had a brainstorming conversation with another person about the format of the revitalized newsletter. We came up with some good ideas, but decided we also wanted to poll the people who will be reading it.

In the meantime we decided our first 'issue' would be an email that would contain short welcome notes from some of the officers and some basic information about the fellowship website. After I figured out how to update data to the website, I played around with an email newsletter template and figured out how to add text, hyperlinks, and images. The final result was super simple, but I was proud of it.

After sending the draft to several people for their input, this morning I sent the message out to everyone.

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Right after I hit Send I was afraid that something might have gone wrong, but I've received a couple of positive emails about my message....and no negative ones.

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