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Christmas Newsletters
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FTLComm - Tisdale - Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
This past week I got the United Church newsletter, one from the Beeland
Co-op and another from TMSS. Each one filled with useful information
and each one delivered by some means or another.
Yesterday, my father who is working on his Christmas newsletter was working through
the skills needed to create a nice presentation with some pictures and text.
Many people and organizations take time at this time of the year to sum up the past
year and send out a letter that sort of addresses where they are at right now.
I general it is a good idea. Families update each other on their busy lives and in
a way we mark the small events in our lives with a note in that newsletter.
Here is an idea. If you haven't sent out the letter you plan to send out this year
why not consider using this medium, the world wide web. There are a host of free
web site pages available like those that come with your SaskTel account, Geocities,
Tripod are all free but the problem with this is that it requires that you
have some skill knowledge and a little software to get the web page to work and for
most folks that is just not going to happen.
But as you can see there are many web services like my own Faster Than Light Communications
and Family Farm in Archerwill that can provide you with the service for much
more reasonable money than it costs for stamps and duplicating your letter.
Here is how I would help you send out your newsletter. You e-mail me the message,
send along a picture or two if you like or drop them off. I would assemble your
text and graphics into a web site and issue you a web address that you would then
send out to your friends and relatives. The cost of the service would be related
to time, the longer it took to put the letter into a web page or fix some graphics
the more it would cost but in general for thirty dollars you could have your very
own Christmas web newsletter page.
However, there are some other services out on the web that do a very cool job whereby
they create the web page for you. These are worth taking a look at.
With the huge success of the Internet and so many people now online we should make
use of this medium to its fullest. It seems wrong for us to consider it just for
business and commercial sales when it can provide people all over the world with
a connection to each other that far surpasses any form of communications in the past.
The sooner we leave the trees standing and remove ourselves from a dependence on
paper the better.
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Timothy W. Shire
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