Newsletter Team
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The Newsletter Team creates a weekly newsletter for the fleet, with quick reference information about what's happening. Team members can reference the information below on how to create a newsletter.
Timing
Newsletters should be sent out once a week on Friday, whenever possible.
Content and Sources
Each newsletter should contain the following:
- Fleet events
- These should be listed with the events happening soonest at the top
- Poll of the Week
- Caption Competition
- Next Fleetwide Chat
- Featured Bio Contest
- Top Sims Contest: remaining time for each round, etc.
- Writing Challenge: remaining time for each round, last winner, etc.
- Upcoming special events
- Community News
- This is an index of the past week's articles with the titles and links to each. Most recent first.
- Full text articles
- Full text of each article with the title and date. Most recent first.
- List taken from: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ufopsb118
- Copy list from the location and "Keep Text Only" - remove +0000
- Copy News Titles
- From that page open titles into new windows and make short links for the Newsletter
- Copy full articles instead of shortened ones (add links for those in articles)
Example
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ufop-announce/message/241
Short links
- http://goo.gl/HDNpV - mainpage
- http://goo.gl/l9s1g - Forum
- http://goo.gl/W0HCW - Top Sim Contest Forum
- http://goo.gl/xK90Q - Writing Challenge Forum
- http://goo.gl/nbYtF - Poll of the Week Forum
- http://goo.gl/KYDnF - Next Chat Topic
- http://goo.gl/VWvYl - Writing Challenge Hall of Fame
- http://goo.gl/AozoS - Memory Book
- http://goo.gl/od134 - Featured BIO Contest
- http://goo.gl/4V5yy - Featured BIO Contest wiki page
- http://goo.gl/ecTU8 - Ships Forum
- http://goo.gl/ytLXy - Publicity Team Y!Group
- http://goo.gl/N798p - Publicity Team wiki
- http://goo.gl/SBip0 - Publicity Team Forum
- http://goo.gl/Wh9ln - News Team Y!Group
Snippets
- Follow the crew on the USS Apollo Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/9GgXC)!
- Follow the crew on the Avandar Google Group (http://goo.gl/oNrYN)!
- Follow the crew on the USS Discovery-C Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/N2vcv)!
- Follow the crew on the USS Drake Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/IiJV8)!
- Follow the crew on the Duronis II Embassy Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/51o3O)!
- Follow the crew on the Starbase 118 Ops Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/2MFD6)!
- Follow the crew on the USS Mercury Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/OVx0n)!
- Follow the crew on the USS Tiger-A Yahoo Group (http://goo.gl/5kko3)!