Newsworthy, Indeed!
Personally, I don't know Richard G., our fine club Secretary, very well. I know that he knows a lot of other Flyers very well, and I know a lot of other Flyers know him very well. I know he's well-liked in our club. I know he's been with the Flyers for a long time, and started a lot of different Flyer traditions in the club, like the Arches Run, and he's responsible for getting our club involved in relay races like Hood To Coast. I know, well, at least I'm pretty sure, that he got the nickname "Papa Bear" at Hood To Coast. I don't know how or why, and sometimes I'm just afraid to ask.
Anyway, until today, that's about as much as much as I knew about him. But today I found out one very important thing:
Richard G. can put together a hell of a New York Flyers' Newsletter.
Now, I used to be Newsletter Editor and Designer, in my pre-blog days. I had fun putting it together each month, and, if I do say so myself, I did a pretty bang-up job of it. Don't get me wrong -- I'm happy to be your humble Blogmaster. But if there's one thing that's making this humble Blogmaster even more humble, it's seeing that newsletter done better than I used to do it. And I have to admit, it is. It's still a printable newsletter, chock full of club information and Flyer fun stuff like it always has been, but now he's got it web-active with hot-links and slide show galleries, and and it even has a handy navigable side menu so that you can jump back and forth through the document no matter where you are, putting the all those previous newsletters' old "Table of Contents" to shame. After nearly a year's hiatus, Richard has seriously outdone us all and breathed new life into our beloved club magazine. Get a little glimpse of it below:
A little taste of the new Flyers' Newsletter, where
Richard makes all us previous editors look bad.
That whet your whistle for more? Well, in case you missed the link the first time, you can find more here.
Still hungry? Well, at this point Richard's just reviving the newsletter for the first quarter of the 2010. If you want to see more, comment below, or send Richard some positive feedback at secretary-at-nyflyers-dot-org, so we can convince him to bring it back as the monthly that we all loved. In the meantime, if you're curious what the newsletter used to be like, you can see almost 10 years of newsletters in our Flyers archives.
Happy reading! -Eric S.
2 comments:
Outstanding, right? I am so amazed by how well done it is.
I know Richard put a lot of work in to this inaugural edition, working to get the cool links, the slide shows, and other technical niceties. I know we'll see more cool stuff in the future, but now that Richard has much of the technology down, the next big challenge is getting content - so I urge all of us to contribute to the next (and next, and ...) newsletters.
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