Week 6, Day 1

This week you’ll be writing your third newsletter(!), continuing to work from your presented drafts or starting new projects, and hearing from one of our earliest advocates, Dr. Ron Savage!

There are two tasks to do today:

• Prepare for Dr. Ron Savage’s talk today at 12:00 PST.

  • Read this chapter on Pediatrics and Adolescents that Dr. Savage co-wrote with Dr Janet Tyler.

  • Read this article As fewer kids played football, hospitals saw a big drop in ER visits which Dr. Savage recommended.

  • Read Dr. Savage’s bio - he is on our professional advisory board. For context, Ron is the first person that we sent our first-ever Concussion Update newsletter to, for feedback. His enthusiasm for the newsletter helped us decide to go ahead with it.

• Select and begin writing your newsletter synopses! We’ll be flipping the writers writing one and two synopses again, so if you wrote two last week (Will, Shelly, Cassidy, Caroline), you’ll be writing one this week and if you wrote one last week (Elliot, Elena, Trevor) you’ll be picking two topics this week.

This week:

• Newsletter reminders

  • Try to choose from the July 23rd updates document if at all possible, as that contains the most recent sources. If you need to go back to the July 9 updates document, make sure to use the search functionality on the CA website to check if its been written about before.

  • Put your name and the link to what you’re writing about under its topic in the final doc as soon as you choose it

  • Try to get your newsletter synopses in the final document by 5pm PST on Tuesday

  • Grammarly doesn’t catch everything and is not always correct, but it is definitely your friend! Run your synopses through Grammarly before you leave it for us in the final document.

• Reminders for those working in Squarespace

  • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page. Work on a (disabled) duplicate or new page.

  • Squarespace unfortunately has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.