Hi Nichole, Welcome to the education community!
If I would look at which newsletters in the Wikimedia movement are the most successful I would consider as top 3: Signpost, Wikidata newsletter and the *This Month in GLAM* (of course I have a bit of a conflict of interest with the last one). I value the learning quarterly, but I would not consider the set-up as that successful and inviting as the newsletters I consider to be in the top 3. So I would not take that newsletter as example. I indeed think a newsletter helps to move forward our education community. In the newsletter we share our experiences, find inspiration and best practises. The newsletter is already about a theme: education. I do not think it is a good idea to choose to have themes each month. Then I think it does not give room to the experiences, but focuses on something else. It is of course possible to invite people to write about a certain topic, because you know that person has experience in it and it is good to stimulate a more diverse range of topics to be described, but making the newsletter thematic I do not think it is a good idea. To me the education newsletter does not work that handy, but maybe I have a bias because of the *This Month in GLAM* newsletter I publish. I do have years of experience in publishing multiple newsletters, and I am willing to help with the publishing, but I do not want to help when the whole newsletter becomes thematic. Greetings, Romaine 2016-12-16 5:07 GMT+01:00 Nichole Saad <[email protected]>: > Dear WEP community, > > I know we've been introduced before, but let me reintroduce myself and > some exciting new things I'll be working with you on. I'm Nichole, the new > addition to the education team, and I'll be working on communications and > as the regional focal point for Asia. > > I've been working on a plan to improve communication about the education > program, including thematic elements, and along with Tighe and Vahid have > concluded that the best place to start is with the newsletter. I know some > of you were volunteering to produce the newsletter before, and I would love > to hear from you if you have worked on this or are interested in starting. > > We've already got some great submissions in the Newsroom. Thanks to > everyone who submitted their stories--The December Newsletter will go out > by the end of the month :) > > Now for news about news! > > While we've currently been producing quarterly newsletters, I'm proposing > to go back to monthly newsletters but smaller in scale with only 4 features > per newsletter (the learning quarterly > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Newsletter/2016/3/10>offers > a good example). Each issue would be thematic, with a preceding community > conversation around the theme taking place on Twitter, Facebook, the > mailing list, and on the Wiki and synthesized as one of the features for > the newsletter. The other features will be submissions from the community > on project highlights or op-eds relevant to the theme. > > I would really like to get this off the ground for January, and that will > require your cooperation! How can you get involved? > > 1. Submit your ideas for newsletter themes. Submissions needed by 12/24 on > the Newsroom page, under the heading "Theme Ideas" > > To get the ball rolling here are a few general ideas: > > > - Teacher Training/Professional Development > - K-12 > - Higher Education > - Politics in Wikipedia Education Projects > - Regional themes > - Themes on specific Wiki projects > > 2. Once the theme is announced participate in the conversation! > > 3. Volunteer to help produce the newsletter. We're going to need a team to > help with: > > - content curating > - revising the newsletter pages on the wiki > - formatting and publishing the monthly newsletters > - distribution/promotion on various channels > > > Any questions can be directed to me [email protected]. > > I'm looking forward to working closely with you all! > > > > best regards, > > Nichole > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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