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The Week Ahead: September 2, 2008

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Wow, this is shaping up to be a crazy week. I just wrapped up my monthly newsletter for the AIA Birmingham and I’m gathering information together to get going on the Sierra Club’s Alabama Sierran. My friend Vance is planning to come over to discuss the Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama 2009 calendar and their fall newsletter on Thursday. I just stopped by the printer to look over a proof for Alabama Communities of Excellence’s (ACE) September workshop (yes, that’s next week!). I’m in the middle of gathering together a group of folks to work with ALDOT’s sign department on a signage policy for tourism in Alabama, particularly as it relates to scenic byways, but I think it will have broader implications. So much to do, so little time to do it.

On top of that, I’ve gotten interested in Twitter (you can find me at www.twitter.com/joewatts/). It seems to hold some real promise for good marketing. We’ll see. I’m hoping to use it for the alabamafrontporches.com website.

Scenic Byways Workshop in Birmingham

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It has been a busy week. Monday was filled with the usual Monday busywork, along with catching up  on several projects that are ongoing. Plus, I spent some of Monday on last minute details for the workshop we held at the Barber Motorsports Museum. Yesterday was taken up with a full day of a somewhat participatory workshop on Tourism-oriented wayshowing (helping travelers find their way to the places that they are looking for). It was a good workshop and we brought down a couple of people from the America’s Byways Resource Center in Duluth, Minnesota. 40 people attended the workshop from around the state. We hope to have more.

Another Sierra Club Newsletter (Alabama Sierran) Completed

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Sent this one off to press on Thursday. As always, J.S. Printing does an amazingly fast job with newsprint. I submitted the newsletter just before 4 p.m. (their cutoff time) on Thursday and it is shipped Friday afternoon to the mail house for sorting and bulk mailing. Extremely fast.

The print quality (black and white only–the color version shown is for the web only) isn’t extraordinary, but it is printed on recycled material for an extremely good price and at an amazing turnaround.

I’d suggest using them for any newsprint needs that require a quick turnaround at an extremely competitive price.

Now, I’m off to finish the Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama Art Calendar (*Vance, are you reading?) before tomorrow.

 

Walking to Remember Poster 2008

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Just wrapped up a newsletter for CGH Insurance Group (The CGH Insider). It is an online only newsletter. This marked the 53rd issue of the newsletter I’ve completed. For this issue, I went back and compiled the interviews I’ve done over the years–pretty standard stuff, but still… www.cghinsurance.com/newsletter/. I’ve also made a few corrections to the Tombigbee RC&D Council’s website: www.tombigbeercd.com–more to come on that website in the next couple of weeks.

I’m about to finish my monthly newsletter for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club (The Alabama Sierran). I’ll be sending it to the printer tomorrow. I finished a postcard for Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama last week, but, since I don’t have anything else to post today, thought I’d toss it out here–very nice photos of some Alzheimer’s patients–not taken by me… Now, back to working on the Alzheimer’s art calendar.

This week is dedicated to wrapping up the remaining newsletters for August and the Alzheimer’s calendar. Next week is all about Alabama tourism: a major redo of the Alabama Scenic Byways website (www.alabamabyways.org) along with some substantial work on a website for Bibb County and updates for the Alabama Front Porches website: www.alabamafrontporches.com.

The Week That Was

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Not much to report on the last week. Good progress on the Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama calendar along with a quick “Save the Date” postcard for their fall fundraiser. Got a partially complete website for the Tombigbee RC&D Council (www.tombigbeercd.com) that I’ll be filling out in the coming weeks, started gathering information for the next issue of the Sierra Club newsletter, Alabama Sierran, and the CGH Insider newsletter–both to complete next week. Oh, and I completed another AIA Birmingham newsletter along with a couple of additional pages for that website (aiabham.org). I added a Joe Watts biography page here on my blog.