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CajunTinMan

CajunTinMan

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Bonjour my Texas Brothers. I have agreed to start a newsletter for my lodge. Examples, ideals, templetes, anything would be helpful.
 
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Custer148

Registered User
I am Secretary for my Lodge and I do a bi-monthly Trestle Board (newsletter). One thing I took to doing was putting some Masonic Education into the Trestle Board, and I have gotten rave reviews from the Brethren. I found articles to use on-line (make sure you credit the authors) I have done question & answer sessions, and I have put together short articles of my own. I use a combination of e-mail and snail-mail to distribute the Trestle Board to the Brethren. We have around 90 members and 35% or so are 50 year and older members who don't use a computer and they seem to enjoy hearing from the Lodge every other month. Try to get another member or two involved as this can get overwhelming in short order if you try to do a monthly newsletter (especially if you are working full time, or involved in other organizations)
 
crono782

crono782

Premium Member
@MarkR
Nice newsletter, nice to see a clean format. I'm personally not a fan of "serif" fonts in e-communication, but I bet it looks pretty nice in print.
 
crono782

crono782

Premium Member
I just mean in general. I spend so much time online (which comparatively, uses very little serif type fonts; this site has practically none) and so little in books (which use quite a bit) that serif type fonts look foreign to my eyes, hah. It's just preference.
 
MarkR

MarkR

Premium Member
Custer148 said:
I actually just use MS Word and save & send it as a PDF. A PDF seems to have fewer problems with the different computer OS when I e-mail them out.
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That's the same thing I do. Also, the pdf can be considerably smaller in file size, making it easier for the receiving party to download via email.
 
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Bob Geer

Registered User
I've been producing newsletters for e-mail and print for about 15 years. If you'll send me your e-mail address, I'll send you the latest edition of the Old Ocean Trestle Board. I use Wordperfect X4 which is the only software I know of that will convert to .pdf (Adobe) at the click of a button. X4 is very user friendly - beats heck out of MS Word.
Fraternally,
BG
bobgeer1943@att.net
 
MarkR

MarkR

Premium Member
Bob Geer said:
I've been producing newsletters for e-mail and print for about 15 years. If you'll send me your e-mail address, I'll send you the latest edition of the Old Ocean Trestle Board. I use Wordperfect X4 which is the only software I know of that will convert to .pdf (Adobe) at the click of a button. X4 is very user friendly - beats heck out of MS Word.
Fraternally,
BG
bobgeer1943@att.net
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Office 2007 or 2010 will convert Word files to pdf with no problem.
 
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