Episode 041 – Oct 15 2008

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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