Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead

Communications at UUCM

There’s always so many events and programs happening at UUCM! In an effort to streamline our communications, ensure that your event/program information does get published, reduce the number of emails that we send out, and improve the readability of our communications, we are sharing with you some new Communications guidelines for 2023-24.

 

Submitting for the Weekly “Eblast”

• How to submit: In order to submit a notice for the Friday eblast newsletter, please email Teresa at office@uumarblehead.org with your blurb by 12:00 pm on Thursday.

• Please include a short title for your blurb, and submit a blurb averaging 100 words (maximum 150 words). Please send the blurb exactly as you would like to see it published in the eblast; we cannot publish your blurb until it is complete.

• Word count: If your blurb is longer than 150 words and/or has pictures that you would like to share, you are invited to submit the announcement and photos for the monthly newsletter.

• If you miss the deadline: Teresa will include your announcement in the following week’s eblast, and you can make a verbal announcement at the worship service on Sunday (from in-person or from Zoom!).

• Placement of announcements: Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we’ll be able to place your announcement on the top of the eblast. Please use the index. When you click on the title of the announcement in the index box it will send you directly to the announcement.

 

Submitting for the Monthly Newsletter: Our monthly newsletter “UUCM Happenings” is the place where we showcase longer stories from the previous month and announcements for the following month.

• How to submit: In order to submit a notice for the monthly newsletter which is sent on the 1st of every month, you can email your article to Teresa at office@uumarblehead.org with your article by the end of the day on the 28th of the month before you’d like your article to go out.

• Please send the notice exactly as you would like to see it published in the  newsletter; we cannot publish your article until it is complete.

• If you miss the deadline: We will do our best to include your article or announcement but we cannot guarantee that your article will be included. Please be mindful that our staff and office are balancing multiple projects at once, and your adherence to the listed deadlines helps everything run more smoothly.

 

Standalone Email Announcements: In previous years, the office would accept and then send out special announcements as standalone one-time emails. We are trying to reduce the number of emails that the church sends out for the sake of our subscribers. We are moving toward sending out standalone emails exclusively for pastoral letters and a few big events of the year (e.g. Red Bow Fair, Annual Meeting, the Auction). If you have an event that you would like highlighted in our church communications, you may 1) submit a notice for the weekly eblast, 2) submit an article for the monthly newsletter (remember to plan ahead, knowing these come out monthly!) and/or  3) make a verbal announcement after worship on Sundays.

 

Thank you for your cooperation to help streamline and improve our digital communications this year!