Kansas State University

Newsletter goals

  • Relevance/usefulness
  • Truth
  • Accuracy
  • Consistency
  • Clarity
  • Brevity
  • Scannability

Newsletter style/writing

• IT style guide
• University Publications style guide
• Fall 2007 survey results
• acronymfinder.com
• merriam-webster.com

K-State IT resources

• IT Index
• IT training
• K-State Online
• TechBytes
• Union Computer Store
• Web tools

Other resources/tools

• ARIN whois IP search
• ftc.gov
• Internet Archive
• Wikipedia
• w3schools.com tutorials
• youtube.com

Newsletter tools

• draft.html staging area
• Dreamweaver visual editor
• Firefox web-dev toolbar
• HyperSnap screen/window capture
• ITEDITOR group ID/account
• Kedit text editor
• pbwiki.com input of articles
• PuTTY secure connection to Unix
• Samba file server

Newsletter mailing lists

• TellTuesday input channel
• INFOTECHTUESDAY subscribers
• TUESDAY-LOG modifications log

News sources

• Media Relations
• Manhattan Mercury
• K-State Collegian
• Research and Extension
• Online IT newsletters

useit.com guidelines
for e-mail newsletters

• useit.com by Jakob Nielsen
• e-mail newsletters
• usability 2002
• usability 2004
• usability 2006

Web/design/writing

• useit.com's Writing for the Web and Ten Good Deeds in Web Design
• InfoDesign: Understanding by Design
• useit.com's recommended books
• A List Apart (see topics)
• CSS Zen Garden
• K-State web accessibility

Mission

InfoTech Tuesday is a weekly newsletter about information technology at K-State. Its mission is to provide the K-State community with:

News, events, and IT-related happenings on campus
Overview, scope, and context in the field of IT
Education on using technology effectively

InfoTech Tuesday is a free publication at K-State. It has open subscription so readers across Kansas, the nation, and the world can sign up to receive the weekly e-memo.

Subscriptions

Subscribing to the INFOTECHTUESDAY newsletter mailing list means you'll get an e-mail once a week as the latest issue is released. It briefly lists all the newsletter headlines and provides link to the complete issue on the Web at www.k-state.edu/infotech/news/tuesday.

New faculty/staff are automatically subscribed to the newsletter. Anyone can unsubscribe and resubscribe at any time.
Students are e-mailed an introductory issue at the beginning of the fall semester and can freely subscribe/unsubscribe at any time.
Non-K-Staters can subscribe to the newsletter for free.

Deadline for submitting articles

News should be sent to TellTuesday@k-state.edu by 5 p.m. Friday for the next week's issue. Items received after that time are not guaranteed to be published until the following issue.

Newsletter staff

Managing editor: Betsy Edwards
Associate editor: Aimee Hagedorn
Executive editor: Rebecca Gould
Backup/guest editors: Sarah Silva, Cathy Rodriguez

Weekly contributors include Cathy Rodriguez, Harvard Townsend, and Sarah Silva.

Archive of past issues

Every issue of the IT newsletter (since it started Dec. 4, 2001) is available online. The newsletter archive is a one-page list that allows easy searching by article name, date, keyword, and author. (We hope to have a database eventually!)