Re: [Adho-comm] Query from ADHO re: Newsletters

This is really helpful. Thanks, Tully. I’m familiar with the woes of templating from other platforms like ConstantContact. This is something we’ll definitely think about as we look at MailChimp, too. All best, Hannah --- Hannah L. Jacobs | she/her/hers Communications Officer, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizationshttps://adho.org/ Digital Humanities Specialist Duke University Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab (Wired! Lab) From: Tully Barnett Date: Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:59 PM To: Hannah Jacobs , adho-comm@lists.digitalhumanities.org Subject: RE: [Adho-comm] Query from ADHO re: Newsletters Hi all, Welcome Anna Sofia and Erdal! aaDH does not currently publish a newsletter. When I published a newsletter for another organisation I used mailchimp to handle the emails and an outlook template to manage the look and feel of the newsletter, and put PDFs of it on the website as an archive. But templates are tricky and it was a bit of a nightmare if the formatting went weird but I never found a better way of doing it. I never liked the look and feel of a Mailchimp “campaign” so it was better in my view at the time to cope with formatting dramas that the corporate look of a Mailchimp email. In terms of workflows, I would send out a call to members for items for the newsletter a couple of weeks before it was due to go out and collect relevant links and material from websearches and twitter. The newsletters were roughly quarterly, had a message from the Director, a spotlight section for a case study of a member, a few stories about things happening in the sector and an opportunities and links section that was hard to maintain and keep up to date on the website but putting a bunch of things in the newsletter helped with that workflow Cheers, Tully From: Adho-comm On Behalf Of Rooweither Mabuya Sent: Thursday, 10 June 2021 1:05 AM To: hannah.jacobs@duke.edu; adho-comm@lists.digitalhumanities.org Subject: Re: [Adho-comm] Query from ADHO re: Newsletters Dear Hannah, DHASA does not publish any newsletter. Thanks, Roo

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Hannah Jacobs 06/08/2021, 07:29 PM >>> Dear All,

First, I want to welcome to our list ADHO’s new Communications Fellows,Anna Sofia Lippolis and Erdal Ayan. (More about them at the end of this note.) You may see periodic emails from them over the next 6 months. Second, I want to ask you all for your insight: Does your organization send out a regular newsletter? If so, what is your newsletter’s purpose? Are there processes/workflows and/or technologies you recommend? Are there process/workflows and/or technologies youdon’t recommend? Thanks, Hannah --- Hannah L. Jacobs | she/her/hers Communications Officer,Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizationshttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/adho.org/__;!!OToaGQ!7tDaoMeeszU3AcRM9okB... Digital Humanities Specialist Duke University Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab (Wired! Lab) ADHO Communications Fellows Bios: Anna Sofia recently completed a Master’s in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna and is now a research fellow studying cognition and technology. She has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and is interested in data visualization and literature. Erdal Ayan is currently pursuing a PhD in English and American Studies at Kassel University and an MA in Web Science at TH Köln. Erdal is a founder of DH Turkey and has participated in several European Summer Universities in DH.