Increasing responsibilities and a sample screenshot

As my ability to write and design the chess4life newsletters grows, so to do my responsibilities. Instead of merely writing articles, I'm now in charge of tracking down other coaches and employees to help with the writing duties, giving me the opportunity to outsource the Featured School articles.

We were able to find a few people willing to do this, and already stepped up and gave them responsibilities to keep them busy until June. Here's a screenshot of the emails we send to subscribers by the way, they look a bit different than the version on the website.

Sure has been a while since I posted here!

Since my last post, I've published two newsletters for Chess4Life. In order to finish my tasks I've had to drive around town gathering information on company events, interview prominent figures from both inside and outside the company, speak with students for our featured student of the month column, and of course write articles based on the information I glean.
So far we've consistently featured one student of the month, and a chess puzzle, and a school spotlight focusing on one of the schools chess4life visits to offer chess lessons and seminars for students to attend. Links to all past newsletters can be found here.
Not featured on that page, however, are the emails I send to subscribers using iContact, a mass emailing program required a bit of skill with both word processing and graphic design to utilize. I'll include a screen shot of that in my next post.

Week 1 (and a half)

     It's been business as usual at Chess4Life, but my position within' the company has changed drastically and I now find myself writing and editing articles for the company's newsletter, with the expectation that I'll take over the layout and formatting once we work something out with the higher-ups. While I only wrote one full fledged article this month, there was still plenty before we ship out on Jan. 31st!
      My one article was a student spotlight on Eashver Elango, a student I've enjoyed working with since I originally came to the company over a year ago. The article covers his hobbies, ambitions, role models, and favorite things about Chess4Life. Composing the article wasn't too difficult, I only did one interview (with Eash himself) and wrote it shortly after for submission to Ben on the 21st.
     I also wrote a couple of forewords for one outside article about a chess player who used his skills to help coach Corban University's soccer team and lead them to a ranked championship title, written by an old friend of Chess4Life's CEO, Elliot Neff. The other was a testimonial from a parent discussing how Chess4Life helped instill a work ethic in his son and improved their relationship.
     After completing the actual articles, I was charged with finding a chess puzzle for the newsletter. I took one from chess4life's own curriculum  on a strategy called "barreling," in which two of the same piece are lined up to attack in the same direction twice to break down walls or lure out important pieces.
     Finally, I had to find non copyrighted images to go with each article. This was a simple task, but I'm hoping to make more time next month to take and use my own pictures to add a sense of personalization and legitimacy to each article.

THERE SEEMS TO BE NOTHING HERE

But I assure you, there will be sometime late Friday.