In March of this year, I made a promise to myself to be more deliberate with my newsletter . I wanted it to have a consistent publishing schedule and be a resource, rather than just a way to share news and updates about my course offerings and promotions.
So, for the past five months, I have been publishing a new issue of my newsletter with insights and news every other Tuesday like clockwork. This issue marks a milestone for a couple of different reasons.
I’m happy with this consistency and change in the content to deliver on the promise I made to myself.
Move to a New Provider
Last week, I moved to a new email service provider ( ConvertKit ) that is much easier to work with and allows me to leverage some cool features and incorporate into my newsletter.
I’ll come back to one of those features in a minute.
Renamed - The Full Stack Developer’s Microsoft 365 Playbook
Another thing I decided to do was to give my newsletter a name.
Prior to today, I had referred to it as either “Andrew Connell’s Voitanos newsletter” or “The Voitanos Newsletter by Andrew Connell”. But, neither of those tell you what it’s about or what you can expect from it.
After going through a naming exercise and evaluating a lot of options, I decided to name it “ The Full Stack Developer’s Microsoft 365 Playbook ”.
This name more accurately defines who the newsletter is for and what you can expect from it.
I’m using the term “full stack” because it encompasses developers who work on client-side technologies like React, web-based technologies, and server-side technologies like building APIs, using cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure.
This name also excludes the audience of no-code and low-code developers. I don’t have anything against low/no-code developers, but they aren’t my target audience.