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Introduction

The Newsletter Team is responsible for shaping how reDot communicates its ideas, impact, and opportunities with the wider community. Through engaging and informative newsletters, the team ensures that volunteers, partners, and supporters stay updated on key initiatives, events, research insights, and organisational milestones.
Members of this team work on planning content themes, writing and editing articles, coordinating with different verticals for updates, and managing the design and distribution of each issue. The goal is to create newsletters that are clear, consistent, and meaningful, while also reflecting reDot’s voice and mission.
This team plays an important role in strengthening transparency, building community engagement, and highlighting the work being done across projects.
For questions, collaboration, or content suggestions, please reach out to the Newsletter Team Lead: ​[NAME] [email]
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How to design a newsletter?

There are many applications you can use to design your newsletters, but here are tutorials to some of our favourite ones!

Brevo

Here are a few videos you can watch to get an idea of the platform:
Here are some articles to understand the platform better:
Now, here is a guide on how to design a newsletter on brevo and share it as a PDF
Open the Account Dashboard and go to the “Marketing” Tab: ​
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Go to the “Campaigns” sub-tab and then click on “Create Campaign” ​
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Select the “Email” option under “Standard” ​
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Input a campaign name under “Regular” and click on “Create campaign” ​
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After that, click on “Start designing” under the “design” step ​
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Click on “Create from scratch” or choose a default template. ​
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Once done, the design board will open. Create your design here. ​
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To share the design as EMAIL: - Once done, click on “Preview & test” - In the pop-up select “Send test email” ​
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- Choose a recipient and send test email ​
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To share design as PDF: - Click on the “info button” at the top-right corner ​
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- Then select “Save as pdf” ​
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- The PDF will automatically get downloaded ​
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Canva

Open up
the reDot workspace
Go to “Templates” ​
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Type out “newsletter” or a allias word and choose a template ​
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Click on the purple “Create” button ​
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Type out “newsletter” or a allias word and choose a template ​
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Once you have created the design, click on “Send to Teacher” and from the Teacher dropdown, select the name of your team lead or task manager. ​
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Add a message (optional)
Click on “Send”

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