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Episode 041 – Oct 15 2008

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This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie discuss considerations for starting an electronic newsletter.  The interview section of the show focuses on the synod’s own electronic newsletter, Together.

The discussion:
  • Electronic newsletters – Most congregations and schools rely heavily on monthly and weekly newsletters to facilitate communications with members and school families.  Today Martin and Sallie take a look at various options for going electronic with your newsletter communication.
    • NewsletterWritingTips.com
      • 5 Sure-Fire Ways to Annoy People With Your Email Newsletter
      • PDF creation tools
        • CutePDF.com
        • PDFill.com
        • Open source desktop publishing – Scribus.net
        • Check out Episode 026for tips on mass e-mail
          • ConstantContact.com
          • iContact.com
            • The tidbits:
            • Picks of the week (37:45)
              • Online drawing tool – www.dabbleboard.com
              • Kuler by Adobe – kuler.adobe.com
              • WELS.net feature (43:03)
                • Mission Connection online archive
                • Of interest (44:21)
                  • We have a winner!  Listen as we play additional voice mail contest entries from our listeners and choose a winner of the recent WELSTech contest. Enjoy shopping at cafepress.com/welstech!
                  • Community feedback (51:07)
                    • Jeff Clark wrote to share information on hardware configurations – a possible discussion topic for a future WELSTech episode
                    • Cindy Krueger from Shepherd of the Hills in Lansing, MI shared a link to an article by Dan Lohrmann titled “How Safe is Cloud Computing?”
                    • Following up on last week’s interview, we heard from Andy Theimer that there are 8 new “inWELS” members on LinkedIn, and we also heard from one of those new members, Danny Smith
                    • Coming up on WELSTech (54:05)
                      • Episode 042 – Redesign – Why and how to redesign your web site plus the inside scoop on the upcoming WELS.net redesign
                        • The featured artist:
                        • We close with music of WELS pianist, Dawn Gehlhar – Precious Lord Take My Hand from her Inspirations CD (55:07)
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