Things to think about including in your network newsletters:
· Focus person’s name
· Meeting info
o Date of meeting
o Location and host (with a thank you)
o Meeting attendees
o Activity(ies) done at the meeting, special things that happened, theme of the meeting,
· Table of contents
· LifeSPAN logo
· Features:
o Highlights of
§ recent events/activities that the focus person has done
§ network members
§ Could include birthday/anniversary info (if they’re cool with this)
o Focus person goals
o Upcoming events for:
§ The focus person
§ The network
§ LifeSPAN
§ “What’s coming up” feature
o Tie in with the holidays; reminder to acknowledge focus person
§ “Send a Valentine”
§ Focus person birthday reminder
§ Include mailing address/email
o Outing opportunities to do with focus person
§ Focus person’s schedule/availability
§ Contact info for focus person/family
§ “Stay in touch with ____”
§ “Let’s go to the movies”
o Info about the focus person
§ “In the Know”
§ Interests/hobbies/favorite foods or activities
o Related background info re a network event
§ History of the theater the network met at
o Meeting info
§ Last meeting
§ Next meeting (month/theme
o “Suggestion of the month” feature
o Article written by focus person or someone in the network
o Recipes from a dish shared at the meeting
o Facilitator
§ Contact info
§ Personal note
o LifeSPAN public Facebook page info
· Photos taken (at meeting and/or of focus person’s recent events)
o by facilitator
o by focus person
o by network member
o from video clip
· Design:
o Graphics and/orClipArt
o Colors
o Large print that is easy to read
o Bold headlines
· Tone of newsletter
o Encouraging content
o Humorous content
o appreciative tone
· Saving your newsletter
o Nice to include the date in file name
o Save a copy of blank template first!