Results tagged “newsletters” from Getting to Know Joe

This has been a hectic few weeks. The ALZCA newsletter is complete and off to press. Happy to have that one off my plate--though I think it turned out pretty good this time. Their big fall fundraiser is the first Saturday of November: Walking to Remember. Great way to help folks with Alzheimer's and their families.

Anyway, here's the newsletter:

But a good one. Paint is going up in two of our rooms! The colors are looking amazing (well, only the lighter color so far, but still looking great. A very light bluish green on the upper portion of our walls and ceiling.

Lots of work done over the weekend--worked most of the weekend on a website for Tyler Eaton and I'm waiting on a response from that.

Finalized a newsletter for Alzheimer's of Central Alabama, sent an email out to 780 friends of Your Town Alabama, made a couple of small changes to the Alabama Front Porches website (mainly adding an entry to the "Off the Porch" blog), wrapped up a newsletter for American Mining Insurance Company and several other projects. Good, solid start to the week.

Well, I've officially been overwhelmed this week with work. I try very hard to avoid working after 5 p.m., but sometimes I manage to work a little late--I tend to make up for it by working, as I am this morning, early and on the weekend. I completed a complete redesign for American Mining Insurance Company's online newsletter,  www.americanmining.com/newsletter/, I just completed my 38th (I think) Alabama Sierra Club newsletter, I've just about finished an annual report for the Alabama Association of RC&D Councils, I started working on a new client website, brombergs.com and, well, I guess the list just seems to go on and on.  I'm very pleased with the masthead I created for American Mining's online newsletter, though. We went through several revisions, but the end one really turned out best. Here it is:

Seems as though I haven't had as much time as usual to play with my blog. I think I've gotten a bit caught up playing with flickr, plus I've just overall been really busy working on several projects. Getting finished up with a program manual for the Alabama Communities of Excellence and finished a newsletter for AIA, Birmingham chapter. I've been pounding out ads for Underwoods (sister company to Birmingham-based Bromberg's Jewelers). Oh, and I wrote a reasonble itinerary for the Alabama Front Porches website that I posted on the blog I created for them. Need to scan some more old photos in. Haven't really made anything interesting to eat in over a week--busy and boring.

One of the monthly newsletters I work on: The Alabama Sierran. I did the first newsletter for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club in January 2006 and have done one each month since then. This is an 8 page tabloid-size newsletter printed on recycled newsprint. You can download the full newsletter at alabama.sierraclub.org. In addition to working on this newsletter, I just finished an online newsletter for Birmingham, Alabama based CGH Insurance Group (www.cghinsurance.com/newsletter). And, perhaps most fun right now, I'm working on a website on tourism--particularly historical and ecological--in Bibb County, Alabama. I'm developing it almost entirely in Movable Type (using a little Dreamweaver to help me handle the CSS stylesheets). Pretty interesting stuff. Not that far along yet, but I've built the shell: www.bibbtourism.com. Other than that, just the usual blog updates at Your Town Alabama and Alabama's Front Porches.

This newsletter is one that I do only about 2 times each year. It is a pretty good sized newsletter with lots of input, so it takes a while to complete: very pleased with this issue, both design-wise and content-wise. We managed to add in more reference, teaching-oriented information into this issue than ever before (at least since I've been doing the newsletter--and that's been about 5 years).

Seems as though the first week of the month is always filled with work on newsletters. This month (October) is no exception. I'm about halfway through a newsletter for Alzheimer's of Central Alabama, getting started on a newsletter for the AIA of Birmingham and trying to plan the newsletter for American Mining. I've also got to start thinking--probably not until next week--about the newsletter for the Sierra Club. And that doesn't even even begin to consider the blogs that I'm working on constantly for Your Town Alabama and the Southwest Alabama Tourism (with the University of Alabama). Those aren't really newsletters, but in a lot of ways they really are. Oh well, back to work! 

Just wrapping up the design of new business cards for American Mining Insurance Company. They have been using the exact same business card for the last 10 years or so. A new look to go with the new parent company, W. R. Berkley.

And, on another work-related note, I finally handed off the Alzheimer's of Central Alabama art calendar for 2009 off to the printer yesterday after some very small revisions, just started gathering information for a newsletter for Alzheimer's and even got to do a photo shoot with a judge running for election here in Jefferson County (I actually did the shoot almost two weeks ago). I wrapped up yet another Sierra Club Alabama chapter newsletter this week--sent it to press Sunday morning and it should be in the mail tomorrow or Monday (fast turnaround).

Sent this one off to press on Thursday. As always, J.S. Printing does an amazingly fast job with newsprint. I submitted the newsletter just before 4 p.m. (their cutoff time) on Thursday and it is shipped Friday afternoon to the mail house for sorting and bulk mailing. Extremely fast.

The print quality (black and white only--the color version shown is for the web only) isn't extraordinary, but it is printed on recycled material for an extremely good price and at an amazing turnaround.

I'd suggest using them for any newsprint needs that require a quick turnaround at an extremely competitive price.

Now, I'm off to finish the Alzheimer's of Central Alabama Art Calendar (*Vance, are you reading?) before tomorrow.

Just wrapped up a newsletter for CGH Insurance Group (The CGH Insider). It is an online only newsletter. This marked the 53rd issue of the newsletter I've completed. For this issue, I went back and compiled the interviews I've done over the years--pretty standard stuff, but still... www.cghinsurance.com/newsletter/. I've also made a few corrections to the Tombigbee RC&D Council's website: www.tombigbeercd.com--more to come on that website in the next couple of weeks.

I'm about to finish my monthly newsletter for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club (The Alabama Sierran). I'll be sending it to the printer tomorrow. I finished a postcard for Alzheimer's of Central Alabama last week, but, since I don't have anything else to post today, thought I'd toss it out here--very nice photos of some Alzheimer's patients--not taken by me... Now, back to working on the Alzheimer's art calendar.

This week is dedicated to wrapping up the remaining newsletters for August and the Alzheimer's calendar. Next week is all about Alabama tourism: a major redo of the Alabama Scenic Byways website (www.alabamabyways.org) along with some substantial work on a website for Bibb County and updates for the Alabama Front Porches website: www.alabamafrontporches.com.

Another newsletter for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club. One of my favorite newsletter projects as I have the schedule for this newsletter down to a science.

Just looking back and realized that this newsletter (finished this afternoon) is the 30th newsletter I've done for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club. All but the first 3 have been printed on 100% recycled newsprint. One of the fastest, most economical printers for that I've ever found is located right here in Birmingham (jsprinting.com). They print primarily newspapers for local high schools and colleges. Anyway, here's the 30th newsletter (shown here in color, but actually printed in black and white for cost savings).

Finished another newsletter yesterday. I actually finished several newsletters so far this month--the first half of each month seems to hold at least three newsletters and on some months six or more. In the issue of the Alabama Sierran:
River Action Day Success; Tom's Top 10 Hikes; Montgomery Water Festival; Alabama's Attractions; Scenic River Trail; And the Winner Is the Trees; Outings and Events; Contacts, and more. Download the newsletter on the Sierra Club's website (no, I don't do their website): http://alabama.sierraclub.org/statenewsletters.html

Also finished up several other projects yesterday:

• A series of ads for Underwoods Jewelers (a sister company to Birmingham, Alabama based Brombergs). There were something like 20 different ads with 4 sizes for each ad. Mostly just simple work resizing and correcting copy.
  
  
• Although I basically finished this project several weeks ago, we officially launched the American Mining Insurance Company's new website on Monday: www.americanmining.com.
  

• The Ala-Tom RC&D website. Located in Thomasville, Alabama, I've dealt with them before on the statewide annual report for the Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. I've also worked with them on the Clarke County Development Foundation, and I'm continuing to work with them on the Southwest Alabama Tourism project: www.alabamasfrontporches.org. Mostly complete a few weeks ago, I finally got almost all the changes made. The site is now live: www.ala-tomrcd.org.
  

Yesterday, I finished the monthly newsletter for the American Institute of Architects, Birmingham Chapter (www.aiabham.org). This morning, I'm preparing to finish up the monthly newsletter for CGH Insurance Group. Hopefully, I'll have it wrapped up by the end of the day. (I've been working harder on this one than usual--mainly because I've been trying to set aside more lead time for other folks.) More to follow...