Yesterday, I took a big step — I decided to purchase and download files to create a WordPress-friendly newsletter for three of my websites, including this one. I had been mulling for Bostonmore than one year the idea of producing a newsletter, but after reading Anne Wayman’s article, “Consider Writing Your Own Newsletter,” I decided that the time to get this project going has arrived.

I selected the ShiftThis WordPress Newsletter Plug-In to help me build the newsletters and purchased three licenses from them for my sites.

Although I have resisted writing newsletters for some time, it isn’t because I am new to this method of communication. Between 1992 and 2002 when I worked for a business aviation company in New Jersey, I was tasked with writing and editing three newsletters for pilots, flight attendants, and maintenance technicians. At one point I was knocking out 14 issues per year, on a tight deadline at that.

No, I don’t expect to be that prolific with my newest batch of newsletters. Instead, I’ll promise subscribers an occasional brief newsletter covering topics similar to what I am already writing about with a couple of new features included. Back copies of each issue will be made available through this site too.

Look for a subscription widget to be added to this blog in early July with the first issue of the newsletter rolling out in August.