HOW TO: Integrate Facebook, Twitter, and Buzz into Your Gmail
Not necessarily a tip that will improve your ability to communicate with your parent groups BUT very cool none the less. So I thought that this was definitely worth sharing. Facebook, Twitter, and Google hold the world of communication in their hands so knowing how to use and integrate them expands your knowledge base and improves your ability to communicate.
Have fun Buzzing!!
HOW TO: Integrate Facebook, Twitter, and Buzz into Your Gmail
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HOW TO: Create E-newsletters
Attention Parents and School Councils: Sign up for our free web workshops!
Feb. 16th at 6:30pm: Creating free e-newsletters
This step by step 1 hr workshop will show you how to use a free e-newsletter tool (including creating a user-account, adding newsletter articles, adding pictures, adding a list of email contacts, and emailing the e-newsletter to your email lists). This session is geared to parents on school councils who want a free and simple way to communicate regularly with parents.
These workshops are designed for “non-techies”! If you can send email, you have all the skills you need to learn to use these new tools. We will show you “how to” step by step. Offered in partnership with People for Education.
HOW TO: Write Newsletter Headlines
Take some time over the Holidays to review the way you are putting together articles in your online newsletters, print newsletters and blog posts. Headlines get the attention of potential readers and urges them to read on.
Great headlines can even help you overcome some of the other “issues” there may be with layouts or formats. We’ll get there in the next month but for now check this out courtesy of eHow.com:

