Newsletter

We create an Openscapes Newsletter ~ 4x / year. It is published as a blog post in the newsletter category and then emailed to the newsletter subscribers mailing list. People can subscribe via Google Form, which is linked on our website under Connect With Us.

Our Google Drive Folder, OpenscapesNewsletters, includes

• subscription form, Join_OpenscapesCommunity
• subscription form responses sheet, Join_OpenscapesCommunity (Responses).
• list of newsletter recipients (one tab for each newsletter), EmailList_Newsletters_openscapes.org

The newsletter mailing list is a Google Group, openscapes-news@openscapes.org. Before emailing the newsletter, we need to update the Google Group with new subscribers from Google Form Responses.

• In EmailList_Newsletters_openscapes.org, duplicate the previous tab, name tab as date, copy new subscribers from Join_OpenscapesCommunity (Responses) to the new tab.
• Add new subscirbers to the Google Group. The welcome text to use is in the first tab, README.

The body of the newsletter email is the text (with links) of the blog post only, signed “Cheers from the Openscapes Team, Julie, Stefanie, Ileana, Andy”