Newsletter width: 600 pixels but can be any length.

Read the following articles.  Then, create a newsletter for SoCal350.org.  This newsletter will be the one that new sign-ups receive, so keep that in mind in your writing and in choices you make to motivate them to visit the website immediately. 

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-newsletter-examples-list

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-create-email-newsletters-ht

  Use 3 free software tools from the Design It Yourself The Marketers Crash Course in Visual Content pdf that is a file in this week's section.  List what you used.  Be bold and do something you've never done before.  I'm looking for creativity and out-of-the-box ideas!  Take some chances with your design and writing...including the headlines of the news/events you choose.