The Connection and HeartBeat – Did You Know?

You receive an e-mail with a link to The Connection every week, right? Did you know: 

• The Connection is a primary source of key information for staff members? 
• The Connection contains required reading for all staff? 
• The Connection is updated each Monday afternoon? 
• The Connection is in a blog format and can always be accessed at http://connection.heartlandaea.org? There’s a link to The Connection under the Communications link on the Intranet in case you forget the URL. 
• The blog contains an archive of past articles going back to 2008 and allows for comments to be made about each article? 
• To comment on an article, go into the blog, click on the title of the article you’d like to comment about, scroll to the bottom and click on the link that says “Post a Comment”? 
• To submit content for The Connection, you should send it to the Communications Department at comms@heartlandaea.org by each Thursday at 2:00 p.m.? 

Remember that The Connection is an important communications piece that is intended to help you do your job. Thanks for making it a part of your work routine! 

HeartBeat is the Agency’s “cultural” communications piece and is emailed as a pdf to staff members the first Friday afternoon of every month, Sept. to June. Did you know: 

• HeartBeat contains “good news” stories, staff accomplishments, employee status changes (new hires, position changes, title changes), birthdays, thank you notes, etc.? 
• HeartBeat submissions are due to the Communications Department by the last Monday of the month for the next month’s issue. 
• An archive of past HeartBeat issues going back two years is available on the Communications link on the Intranet? 
• Anyone can contribute to HeartBeat – especially ideas for good new stories? 
• Which reminds us…You are doing great things every day to impact families, schools, students and educators, and we need to spread that good news! That goes for any fun things that are happening in our offices as well—help us showcase the whole agency! We have multiple avenues to get the word out—HeartBeat, Educator Connection, website, Facebook, Twitter, AEAs Impacting Lives and Pinterest—so please let us know about the great things that are going. Any piece of good news could be turned into a blurb, photos, video or a feature story. Help us spread the good news! You can always send an email to comms@heartlandaea.org with your information. Ok, ready, set, go!