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I've been spending the last few days compiling and writing a newsletter for part-time faculty union in Halifax. Overall, we have about 1400 members. The secretary and I have been brainstorming all day about how a newsletter might take electronic form. But no electronic template I've seen (for a newspaper or otherwise) seems to capable of delivering such a service. Ideally, getting the newsletter into a newsletter format that could be distributed by e-mail would be the thing. Currently what happens with our newsletter is that Maurice posts all the newsitems individually on our website. But this doesn't really enable us to distribute the newsletter--we can only send people to the link. And let's face it, the newsletter as a list of news stories is not quite as aesthetically appealing as it is in "newsletter format." I wonder if there's any kind of template or softward out there that can do the job....
Posted by Bush Whacker at April 3, 2003 10:00 PMFor what it's worth, TextStyleM will have a module especially for periodicals. However, even news portals start off with links to leads stories and then to secondary stories. One thing that might require little effort in your case is to get the secretary to save the newsletter in PDF format, which can be downloaded as an alternative to clicking through each story...
Posted by: Maurice on April 4, 2003 12:29 AM