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Hello friends!

I would like to suggest a free blog as a Newsletter medium.

I thought of this because I am currently in the process of setting up a WordPress blog for another association's newsletter.

A blog would not replace the "insider" discussion on the CASLL list, but would be a more public addition to it (unless you want to go for a private blog that requires a subscriber's log-in to view, but that would basically duplicate the listserv's level of privacy and lose the benefits of having a public blog).

The CASLL list email address or its members could also be set up as a subscriber and could automatically receive & distribute blog posts as they are posted.

As an optional, additional form of distribution for a public blog newsletter, setting up a Facebook "Page" (different from a Facebook "Group") with an automatic Blog feed that mirrors the blog is useful for a % of members who are Facebook members and who may prefer to view/interact with a blog via Facebook. But this need not be a feature of a blog-newsletter.

this email got too long ... So here is the introduction to a public blog post that contains the rest of my suggestion:

"WordPress blogs as organization and association newsletters."

A functional option today for an organization's newsletter is to set up a free public blog on http://wordpress.com/ or to host a WordPress blog on your own website (if you have one, or may eventually have one).
Blogs are quite professional nowadays (no longer merely online diaries). They are respectable forums for academic associations. The Rhetoric Society of America has a blog (The Blogora) at http://rsa.cwrl.utexas.edu/

Blogs are even used by many nonprofit organizations as the basis for free websites. See this example of a website -- the Trent Centre for Community-based Education http://www.trentcentre.ca/ -- you wouldn't even know it's based on WordPress software unless you scroll down to the very bottom and see the notice "proudly powered by WordPress."
The rest of the post explains how it can work for your association, why WordPress is a good choice, and how it can be used to automatically distribute content to members who may prefer to browse its content or stay up to date via Facebook or other social media platforms rather than (or in addition to) an email subscription to your blog.

Read more at http://edurhetor.wordpress.com/

Tania Smith

On 08/06/2011 6:47 PM, Margaret Procter wrote:

[log in to unmask]" type="cite"> I'm with you on boycotting FB for public purposes too, I'm afraid. When I volunteered to be newsletter editor, I was thinking of a simple HTML display that could go on the Inkshed website, with a PDF version also given for people to print out if they prefer to read that way.

The biggest need of the newsletter is of course content! I am inclined to kidnap (but I'll ask nicely) Susan Drain's minutes from the meeting in Fredericton as a first item. Anybody else want to write up a note summarizing or responding to a topic discussed there? As someone who had to miss the afternoon session to catch a plane, I'd be interested in knowing more and maybe extending those discussions.

Margaret

On 08/06/2011 8:11 PM, Tyler Evans-Tokaryk wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite"> Add my name to the list of those reluctant to use FB for CASLL communication.

Dr. Tyler Evans-Tokaryk
Lecturer, RGASC
University of Toronto Mississauga
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Subject: Re: Facebook Group: Newsletter Site

I'm with Russ and Susan on this one--my privacy settings on Facebook are the highest possible and I use it only for family.
Betsy

At 12:34 PM 6/8/2011, Russ Hunt wrote:

I've drawn a ring of fire around my Facebook site: only my immediate family are allowed in. So I'm with Susan. I'm not clear what the advantages of using FB for a newsletter would be.-- Russ

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I quit Facebook four years ago: if we use it for the newsletter, please let's have another medium too.Susan

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Subject: Facebook Group: Newsletter Site
Dear All:

    I mentioned that I have created [June 2009] a "group" on Facebook - called - INKSHED. It was meant to hold the name. However, there are some imitators. Roger Graves has suggested this could be a site for the newsletter.

    To all who are members of CASLL and FB, I suggest you join. It is free and supposedly painless.

    Best regards,

Michael J. Ryan
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