Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Can we please see your newsletter?

[Michael Barrett (mbarrett]

Rodney,
Experience suggests that finding enough copy (and workers) to sustain a 
newsletter is hard.
What has been more successful at Shadowlake Village is something that started as "Appreciations", an 
emailed compilation of what the title suggests, which has evolved into online "Reflections", a 
combination of appreciations with photos of folks and events.  Photos take up a lot of space so that 
6 or 8 pages can be filled.   Looking at pictures of folks (especially the kids) and events in past 
issues is very evocative of good memories, probably more so that reading that (for example) Mary 
returned from visiting her family and John has had his hot water heater fail.

It would appear there are available attractive and free formats (google ezine) into which one can 
put photos and text with some ease - or else we have some very skilled webpage designers donating 
their time.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/unxb3mpyhmr6nc3/SLVReflections.pdf?n=5145087. This is a big 13 MB file. 
Just looking at this edition from last Spring reminds me how lucky I am to be able to live here.

Michael - at Shadowlake Village  where the ponds are frozen and the bees (8 hives now) are all 
tucked in.
Blacksburg, VA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodney Elin" <hen3ry [at] easternvillage.org>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 11:57 AM
Subject: [C-L]_ Can we please see your newsletter?


> We residents of Eastern Village Cohousing in Silver Spring, Maryland are
> attempting to reinvigorate our old community newsletter. The people who
> want to help out are interested in seeing what may already be out there
> as a sample.
>
> Can the kind people who read this list do us the favor of sending along
> a copy of your community newsletter, either a scan of a printed copy, or
> a link to an an online version?
>
> As our newsletter gains new life, we will certainly post a link to our
> current issue
>
> If you want to send a copy in the mail, please send it to:
> Eastern Village Cohousing
> Office
> 7981 Eastern Ave.
> Silver Spring, MD 20910
>
> > In community,
>
> ~Rodney