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MarinaVanessa 10:30 AM 08-27-2018
Do any of you do a newsletter?
I do. I send them monthly.

If you do a newsletter is it digital? (i.e. mail chimp)
I used to create mine on word and save them as a PDF, then take a screenshot of them so I have an image version. I email them from my daycare email address and add the photo in the content area and the PDF as an attachment.
I also post a copy on my bulletin board and print each family a copy. Starting next month I will also post them on my website.

I used to use mail chimp (a long time ago) but it was free back then. I tried going back to it again but I think they charge now? I don't know of something that's like it that's free so that's why I use my own email.


What do you use for it?
I use it for lots of things.
- remind them of days that I'll be closed
- share licensing updates (hot topics)
- notify parents of new regulations and/or changes in the FCC regulations
- alert them of changes in my policies
- address policies that are becoming/may become an issue
- share field trip days /fun holidays (national pancake day etc.)
- share child care/child development articles (play is learning etc)
- share what we will be doing that month and recap of what we did the previous month
etc


If it is not digital what do you use for a template?
I have used word and used a template from there and just changed it up until I liked it.

Now I use Canva.com and I like it much better. I got ideas from their templates and changed them too to fit what I wanted.

I added a copy of September's so you can see (using Canva)



PROS/CONS/Thoughts on digital vs. paper (I can email the paper version still)

Different people like different methods so that's why I email a digital version and print them a copy.


SHUTTERFLY SHARE SITE
Instead of daily notes which I have been currently doing I am going to have a Shutterfly Share Site it will have a calendar, class journal and pictures so pretty basic. I will not commit to updating it each day but will aim to update it weekly.
The only negative thing I can say to Shutterfly share sites is that it will email a notification to everyone for EVERY update, addition, comment etc that someone makes to the site. My Girl Scout troop used Shutterfly and it was easy to lose a notification because every time the leader would update it and we would respond we ALL would get emails.

We switched from Shutterfly over to the BAND app and that way you can opt to turn certain notifications off and can create a new BAND group for each family so that if you pst certain updates, messages or pictures that are only meant for that one family the other families don't get bombarded with updates. You can also have an "everyone" BAND group for calendar events, policies etc.

As of right now I don't offer an online group like an app or Shutterfly, but I was thinking about possibly using BAND.

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