Newsletter Team

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:

1. Upcoming chat dates
2. Status of the Top Sims Contest (i.e.- vote ending/beginning, etc.)
3. Writing Challenge remaining time for each round
4. Upcoming special events

This week's Community News headlines, with links to each article.

Example

Happy Friday, fellow Trekkers!

FLEET EVENTS

*Podcast: Podcast 2389-1 is released and can be found on StarBase 118 YouTube channel (http://goo.gl/z3NBj) and downloaded from Archive.org (current link).

*Writing Challenge: Intro on the challenge with dates. http://goo.gl/rJoL4

* Next fleetwide OOC chat is scheduled for Sunday, MMM DD. The time going forward will be as follows: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 5pm GMT / 4am Monday UTC+11. Always check your time zone for accuracy/DST if applicable! Chat is always open on the site: http://www.starbase118.net/chat/

* Featured Bio Contest: MMM 2012's Featured Bio is "Name" (link to wiki) of the USS ???, being a winner of the Round ??. Nominations for Round ?? are closed; nominations for Round ?? (lonk to Forum post) are closing MMM 01.

* Top Sims Contest: Round ?? voting started and closes Sunday, MMM DD, 2012 at 23:59 PM.**For voting for Round ?? and nominations for Round ?? (submissions for this round closes MMM DD), check here: http://goo.gl/zNZKN.

*List of Fleet Activities that needs you can be found: http://goo.gl/hLoe9 - there's something for everyone, so don't be shy. **Any most current news from Fleet Activity list with link to Forum post

*Poll of the Week: “Title of the most current” - link

COMMUNITY NEWS

* Community News team is working hard to bring us something new to read every day and keep us informed about happenings in the Fleet. If you like what they are doing, show them appreciation by leaving comments under the favored articles.

(newest at the top, oldest at the bottom)

1. Strange Species: Eyas Wulfatine, a Pythron http://bit.ly/GIBWLN
2. Writers Block? Knock Down the Barriers: http://bit.ly/FRevz1
3. Two more donations! http://bit.ly/xYSBSJ
4. New Academy Graduates http://bit.ly/xl5HMW
5. Poll of the Week: From the Depths 3 - J.G. Hertzler http://bit.ly/FPAGQK
6. Species Close-up: Ullian http://bit.ly/AjTFKp
7. February Plot Summary: USS Tiger-A http://bit.ly/FPijep
8. Donation thanks to Capts. Jaxx & Nicholotti http://bit.ly/y9SY0R
9. The Proof is in the Captain: a profile of Toni Turner http://bit.ly/xFzo5M

FULL TEXT ARTICLES:

List taken from: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ufopsb118

Copy list from the location and "Keep Text Only" - remove +0000

Copy News Titles into the lest under (newest at the top, oldest at the bottom) in that order

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)

Often used 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

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