Let's Connect Newsletter/Publication Guidelines

Why do we write newsletter posts?

The Let’s Connect newsletter will focus on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges encountered in the Learning Clinics and One on one connections as Sharers and Learners in the Connect. It will help us learn from each other and celebrate each other's successes.

How to write a good newsletter post?

A newsletter post can take the form of an announcement, a press release, a status update, or even an op-ed about a relevant topic that you care about.

A newsletter post shouldn't be so short that it doesn't communicate a story. For example, if the post is about an event, it shouldn't be one or two lines saying that the event was held. The reader should get answers to several questions, like when was the event held, where, who attended, what was interesting about this event? A good post will not leave the reader with many questions in their mind. On the other hand, the post shouldn't be so long that it looks like a blog post. If you have a lot of ideas, details, lessons learned that will take several pages on paper, you could think about writing a blog post.

A good newsletter post will be accompanied by photos, links to pages about the event, course pages, user pages, etc. You can also include quotations from some people you are talking about or someone who is attending the course, event, etc.

The newsletter content leaders will be happy to review your drafts, co-write the post with you, or even write the post for you after you give them some details about the topic you would like to cover. To get help with your post drafting, please contact one of the content leaders listed on this page.

How to prepare the "In the News" section?

The "In the News" section of the newsletter lists news shared about Wikipedia in education in different media publications. It can also be a place to share relevant news that could help the community better plan and implement education projects.

To find news about Connects held between Sharers and Learners, Google alerts can help you. To do that, please follow the following steps:

Go to google alerts website.
In the search box type a key word for the alert to track, like "Wikimedia Let’s Connect Peer Learning Program", "Sharers and Learners in Let’s Connect Peer Learning", "Knowledge Sharing", "Knowledge sharing and development", "Wikimedia Learning and Evaluation", , etc. You can create more than one alert for as many key words you want to track.
You can edit every alert to choose how often do you want to get emails from this alert, what source do you want google to use: news only, blogs only, all, etc, and many other options.
Google when send you emails whenever there is something published on the web about the key words you logged.
Open the articles google found and sent to you, make sure each one of them is mainly talking about Wikipedia in Education and dismiss articles that don't meet this criteria.
Go to the newsroom and add a link to the article you found to the "In the News" Submissions.
You can add a very short summary about the article you are adding. One or two lines will be great.