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Sierra Club Newsletter for Christmas!

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This has been a busy year. Perhaps a look back is in order, but not today. Today, I’m putting the finishing touches on another newsletter, this one for my good friends with the Alabama Sierra Club. After more than three years of doing a newsprint, large format newsletter, we’ve shifted to a web only format. Cheaper, more environmentally friendly (though we did make the extra effort to find recycled newsprint) and much more flexible in terms of schedule. Take a look: http://alabama.sierraclub.org/chapternews/

I’m heading out to meet with another client, the Alabama Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects to talk about their website (considering transitioning it into a wordpress style site). Lots to do, but at least I’ve gotten our shopping done–oh, wait, I’ve still got to go to the grocery store.

Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama Newsletter Complete!

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This has been a hectic few weeks. The ALZCA newsletter is complete and off to press. Happy to have that one off my plate–though I think it turned out pretty good this time. Their big fall fundraiser is the first Saturday of November: Walking to Remember. Great way to help folks with Alzheimer’s and their families.

Anyway, here’s the newsletter:

 

Another Sierra Club Newsletter Done

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Another monthly newsletter for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club done. We’ve been doing these for over 3 years now. This year, we started printing every other month and putting the alternate month online as a pdf before sending out an email. Last month, we discovered that the mailing company we’d been using was closing (immediately) due to the economic downturn. We’re reevaluating exactly what to do–possibly electronic only every month. If that’s the case, I’ll be redesigning the newsletter. Have to see.

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ACA Newsletter, plus updates

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But a good one. Paint is going up in two of our rooms! The colors are looking amazing (well, only the lighter color so far, but still looking great. A very light bluish green on the upper portion of our walls and ceiling.

Lots of work done over the weekend–worked most of the weekend on a website for Tyler Eaton and I’m waiting on a response from that.

Finalized a newsletter for Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama, sent an email out to 780 friends of Your Town Alabama, made a couple of small changes to the Alabama Front Porches website (mainly adding an entry to the “Off the Porch” blog), wrapped up a newsletter for American Mining Insurance Company and several other projects. Good, solid start to the week.

What I’ve Been Up To

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rcdcover08.jpgWell, honestly, I’ve been a bit lax on updating my blog of late. I’ve really got to get back into the habit of the thing. I’m working on it. I have been really busy for the last couple of weeks. I’ve finally finished the annual report I do for the Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils (RC&D). I’ve been updating my Your Town Alabama blog, my Alabama Front Porches Blog and created another blog for others to post to called “Off the Porch,” tied to the Alabama Front Porches website project.

I’m in the process of redesigning a website for Tyler Eaton Court Reporters–still a work in progress, but I did the old site as well. I’m getting ready to do some heavy lifting on the AIA Birmingham website: just lots of updates and an upcoming newsletter. I’ve been pretty busy getting the Bromberg’s website situated–an old client that I lost to a big agency several years ago (though I didn’t do their website in those days) that has just returned! Lots to do. (Oh, and I’m totally addicted to Facebook and Flickr.)