#1--Starting Off
Before you can have a newsletter, you need to know how to produce it and what
your publication schedule will be.
Your club budget, as said earlier, will be an important factor in
deciding these first steps.
Probably the most popular way to produce a newsletter today is to write,
edit and layout on the computer and make copies with a photocopier. However,
newsletters still can be made with crayons and construction paper, if that’s
what your budget allows.
As long as you are achieving the goal of informing the members of your
club, the way you present that message doesn’t matter.
So now that you know how you are going to create your newsletter, you need
to know when you are going to create it. Creating a publication schedule will
keep you organized and in control.
To qualify for the district newsletter award, you must produce seven
issues two weeks prior to the District Convention. If you do seven issues
between September and the convention, you will be doing one every month,
including December and March.
Hint: If you want to add in another issue without all the stress of
getting one done March 1 (in time for the convention), you can do two in
September, the extra one for new members telling about your club, officers,
traditions, etc. This issue you can start working on now, so you won’t
actually be working on two issues at the beginning of the year.