What reading or creating a newsletter can do for your club and you

I am compiling a newsletter. Warren Sheng started a humorous account of Harrovian Speakers' meetings called What an Evening which was emailed to members. 

Pinky Tanna started emailing Harrovians members a monthly Newsletter, in two columns, with a banner headline. She inlcuded articles by herself, the President and the VPE and/or past president -  one or two other members who had time to send her snippets.

The History And Future Of Newsletters  - What Editing Newsletters Can Do For You

Sending out a newsletter takes time. It is a service to members, so that those who attended can relive the enjoyment, and see photos of themselves. Those who missed the meeting still get value from their membership by finding out what they missed. They are able to send compliments or congratulate friends and friends-to-be. Creating or continuing a newsletter for your club is a way of publicising yourself.

The newsletter draft newsletter is usually sent to Presiden who then forwards it to the committee to check names, facts, dates, eliminate or anything considered necessary.  Then it is forwarded to the members, or they are given a website link.

You can take over a newsletter from an ongoing editor just once whilst they are on holiday to get practice and see how it is done. If you have the time and inclination to write and edit it several times you can get a credit for it as a project in your Toastmasters' Leadership manual.

Angela Lansbury CL ATMG

Author of Wedding Speeches and Toasts (Ward Lock / Cassell); Quick Quotations (Lulu); Who Said What When (Lulu).