Thank you everybody who has made this a fine edition. Thanks especially to Naomi for helping so much with the newsletter production and to all the folks who contributed stories, pictures and other content. This has gone to the printer. The following files are in PDF format:
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The second Alpha Version (What's an Alpha Version?) of the June newsletter is here. Constructive comments can be Emailed to me at s_sloan@mac.com or publisher@actc.org. Please do NOT send Email to my Gmail account, that account is for Email distribution lists only with a low signal to noise value. It is heavily filtered and automatically purged on a regular basis. I may miss your comment there.
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The first Alpha Version (What's an Alpha Version?) of pages 1-19 of the June newsletter is here. Constructive comments can be Emailed to me at s_sloan@mac.com or publisher@actc.org. Please do NOT send Email to my Gmail account, that account is for Email distribution lists only with a low signal to noise value. It is heavily filtered and automatically purged on a regular basis. I may miss your comment there.
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This is the May Issue of the Black and Blue Bottom, the ACTC Newsletter
I am very rushed this month and will be out of town this weekend so there will be no time for revisions, I am sorry.
This has already gone to the printer:
Thanks
~Steve
This is the April Issue of the Black and Blue Bottom, the ACTC Newsletter:
Thanks
~Steve
The March Issue of the B&BB is here
I hope you like it:
Thanks, and enjoy this week's races!
Steve
As Patrice mentioned on the Elist, this month's deadlines will be as before.
The deadline for the March issue will be the Sunday before the Feb. Meeting.
Why are we doing this? The old deadlines were way too tight and forced the ride scheduler and editors to work week nights and the publisher to give up a weekend to do the newsletter. For example; when I was publisher before, I often had to choose between riding or attending family events and doing the newsletter. This makes it very unattractive for folks to run for publisher. For the ride scheduler and the story editors the previous deadlines were even more difficult. They were expected to turn their rides and stories around in three weekday work days. In my opinion asking that of volunteers is not reasonable, especially if you want to encourage volunteers who have jobs and families that may require care at home to get involved.
Also, as mentioned at the December meeting, I want to train more folks to do the newsletter. New folks will be even slower at doing the newsletter and will need more time. In short I feel this may be difficult, but it needs to be done. I believe the work has to be divided up to make it reasonable. This new schedule gives folks more options in scheduling their lives around their ACTC volunteer work and I hope will encourage more folks to volunteer. I appreciate your time and understanding.
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There's still time!
The deadline for submitting an article for the Feb. 2008 ACTC B&BB Newsletter is coming up. Please submit articles and post your Feb rides, stories and events by Dec 30th.
This gives each volunteer a week to do his or her work around job and other commitments.
If you would like to consider a submission, please let us know:
publisher@actc.org
rides@actc.org
Current Newsletter Timeline:
Dec 30 Articles and rides to copy editor & ride scheduler
Jan 6 Finished articles to layout person
Jan 13 Newsletter to Printer
Jan 17 Mailing Party (location unknown).
By Feb 1 Newsletter in mailbox
Thanks,
Steve Sloan
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