Seems as though the first week of the month is always filled with work on newsletters. This month (October) is no exception. I’m about halfway through a newsletter for Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama, getting started on a newsletter for the AIA of Birmingham and trying to plan the newsletter for American Mining. I’ve also got to start thinking–probably not until next week–about the newsletter for the Sierra Club. And that doesn’t even even begin to consider the blogs that I’m working on constantly for Your Town Alabama and the Southwest Alabama Tourism (with the University of Alabama). Those aren’t really newsletters, but in a lot of ways they really are. Oh well, back to work!
Work
Calendars for Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama On Sale
The calendar is finally printed. It turned out very nicely, I think. They do make great gifts. You can order them online for only $10.00–including shipping. www.alzca.org.
Photos from my Trip to Gee’s Bend and the Black Belt
Well, my intent is to add these photos as a slideshow so they’ll be visible within the blog page, but, for some reason, Slideshow Pro’s upgrade to their Lightroom plugin isn’t really working in the way that it did before. For now, I’m just creating a completely separate page for the slideshow.
These photos are some of the photos I took on a trip to Selma, Gees Bend and Camden (and all points between). There are some interesting photos…I’ll wind up using many of these photos on the www.alababmafrontporches.com website.
Alabama’s Front Porches: A New Blog
Well, it looks like I have gotten a few blogs up and running. Of course, there’s this blog: Getting to Know Joe (I’ve been putting things out on this blog since I think around Thanksgiving 2007). Then, there’s the Your Town Alabama blog: mostly, that blog’s about grant opportunities around Alabama, information for the planning community, news about tourism and byways and the like. I really enjoy doing that blog–it gets pretty decent readership, too. And the newest blog is all about rural southwest Alabama called Alabama’s Front Porches (where I grew up). It is particularly targeted towards attracting tourists to the area, so I’ll be highlighting festivals, fun, food and all those types of things along the way. There will, hopefully, be a mix between personal writings about the things to do while in my neck of the woods along with the more standard press release type information. There’s not a lot of information on the blog right now, but I plan to update it regularly, so keep an eye on it!
New Business Cards for American Mining
Just wrapping up the design of new business cards for American Mining Insurance Company. They have been using the exact same business card for the last 10 years or so. A new look to go with the new parent company, W. R. Berkley.
And, on another work-related note, I finally handed off the Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama art calendar for 2009 off to the printer yesterday after some very small revisions, just started gathering information for a newsletter for Alzheimer’s and even got to do a photo shoot with a judge running for election here in Jefferson County (I actually did the shoot almost two weeks ago). I wrapped up yet another Sierra Club Alabama chapter newsletter this week–sent it to press Sunday morning and it should be in the mail tomorrow or Monday (fast turnaround).
A Quick Postcard for AIA Birmingham’s dreamArchitecture Contest
