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4 Email Newsletters Worthy of your Attention

By @keirwhitaker

28 April 2010 | Category: Asides

Unlike some I am still a big fan of email newsletters. Whilst tools like Twitter are great for "of the moment" links I still appreciate a well crafted newsletter landing in my inbox.

Here are four newsletters I subscribe to and enjoy covering web design, creativity and business.

  1. Links for Light Reading – Russ Weakley’s, the co-chair of the Web Standards Group, weekly roundup of interesting web related stories from around the web. It also includes a comprehensive list of upcoming web events and jobs.
  2. Font Shop Newsletter – You don’t have to be a type nut to appreciate the Font Shop newsletter, it’s beautifully put together and a good read. It’s packed full of font news and typographic hints and tips. You need to register with Font Shop to receive it but in my opinion it’s well worth it.
  3. Springwise New Business Ideas – I can’t remember how I came across this one but I have been enjoying it for a few years. Not strictly web related but a great weekly roundup of interesting business and entrepreneurial ideas from around the world as sourced by a network of over 8,000 “spotters”.
  4. Jason Nation – An infrequent mailing (although as his baby is now sleeping through the night there is the promise of more frequent dispatches) by Jason Calcanis. Jason is the founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc, TechCrunch50.com, Open Angel Forum and Mahalo.co. Since “retiring from blogging” he has focused his attention on his mailing list subscribers. Recent topics have included loyalty in business, work ethics, investing as well as app and technology reviews.

Incidentally if you would like to receive the Think Vitamin weekly email newsletter you can subscribe using the form at the top right hand side of this page.

Each week I cover topics relating to web design, development and business as well as occasionally including discounts codes, beta invites and event announcements.

What do you subscribe to? Feel free to link up some worthwhile subscribes in the comments.

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Comments

  • http://wilczy.com wilczy

    seriously?
    the content may be solid but to be honest, these would be some of the least creative and least interesting emails i’ve ever seen. i’m sure our community will post some links to some creative ones but i’m a bit shocked at this article to be honest.

  • Keir Whitaker

    Hey Wilczy,

    Thanks for your comment, sorry to hear you didn’t find it useful. I was definitely coming from the angle of the content as opposed to the actual design on the newsletters so perhaps we agree on that :) Two are purely text after all.

    These are just four that I find useful and informative. I am always happy to discover new ones as well. What do you subscribe to, if any?

  • http://www.toddle.com Alan

    http://www.beautiful-email-newsletters.com/ is great for email design inspiration. Not just because i am invloved with it :)

  • http://www.davidpierce.org David Pierce

    @wilczy

    In my opinion newsletters are not the appropriate forum or showcase for design. They should be straightforward and work. Gmail, Outlook, etc all limit tremendously what shows up in a users inbox.

    I like istcokphotos “design” of their newsletter but I never open it, whereas artbistro is boring and straightforward and I always go to at least one link.

  • Kem Lavele

    Nice article , i fiind Springwise very interesting, Thanks for sharing this.

  • http://rachel.learnless.info/ Rachel

    Nice Article Having useful points..thanks for sharing this

  • http://twitter.com/HiteshMehta Hitesh Mehta

    Thank you for sharing, have subscribed to all these newsletters. Looking forward to more wisdom.

  • http://www.webguide4u.com WebGuide4U

    thanks for the sahre. will have a look out all the four in detail.

  • http://twitter.com/hoverin Bhasker Kode

    You should give the new Venture Hacks Newsletter a look as well, I would : )

    http://venturehacks.com/articles/best-advice

    should be a good list, if you’re starting up or building a lean startup.

    ~B
    @hoverin

  • http://fontfeed.com/about Stephen Coles

    As FontShop’s newsletter editor I speak for all of us when I say we’re honored to be included. We’ll do our best to keep it worthy of registration.

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