Old Boats Buffalo

The Boat Club is looking into the possibility of putting out a monthly email newsletter in order to better stay in touch with the membership. Right now the newsletter is in the test phase, but we are open to comments.

Members may comment here or send an email to: nfacbs_webmaster@hotmail.com.

I figured I’d try this newsletter feature on the new trail version of Microsoft Publisher that I got with the new Office 2010. I’ve heard good things about this program as far as templates for posters and such. I figured I’d check into the newsletter templates as well. Yes there are other programs out there that charge you a fee to send out and manage your email newsletters, but for a smaller group such as ours, I believe a free program such as this would work just fine. It’s not like it’s completely free, you do have to buy the program, but once you do, you own it for life.

Some of the advantages of an email newsletter verses a conventional newsletter are, well obviously cost for one. But besides the cost, there are many things you can do with an email newsletter that you just can’t do with a printed one. You can add links and video as well as pictures that all click through to the website. I’m not saying that we should eliminate a printed newsletter altogether, but we could at least supplement it. Maybe we will decide that we only need and or want two printed newsletters a year. Of course we can always print out copies of the e newsletter to hand out at shows or to mail to those without email. For more information on what an e newsletter can and can not do, please see the following Microsoft Office article here.