One year ago, the marketing team launched The Monthly Dose employee newsletter.

On the occasion of The Dose’s first anniversary, it seems like a good idea to remind MPS&A employees that the newsletter really belongs to all of you. It’s a venue for you to share and receive information in order to foster better communication with one another – whether it’s just across the hall or across the entire organization.

MPS&A employs more than 500 creative and enterprising people across the U.S., so we on the marketing team know that there are a lot of good ideas percolating out there. We just need you to share them with us so that we can publish them as informative articles for the benefit of the rest of the organization.

So, maybe you have a great idea for an article but you don’t think you have the time or skill to develop it. Well, that’s where we come in. The marketing team will gladly work with you to craft your article from start to finish.

And to help stimulate your creativity, we’re going to hold a contest for you to win some awesome McKesson swag. Here’s how the contest works:

• You submit an idea or rough draft of a 300-500 word article to [email protected]
• An editorial panel of marketing team members will review and judge all of the submissions
• The person with the best submission will have their article published as the lead story in the next issue of The Monthly Dose, along with an acknowledgment
• The person with the best submission will also get to choose an item from our inventory of McKesson-branded apparel, office supplies, mugs, and more

Submissions will be accepted via [email protected] until end of business day on April 11, 2014.

To get you started, here are some handy guidelines for developing article ideas:

What The Monthly Dose is for:

• Department/team updates: Discussion of processes and/or activities that might be of interest to the rest of the company
• Product updates: Release notifications, certification approvals, new vendor alliances, etc., that will inform employees who engage with customers on a regular basis
• Knowledge sharing: New ideas, best practices, or achievements that might inspire innovation in other areas of the company
• Business successes: Big wins or small wins that you would like to share with the rest of the company
• Calls to action: Notification of activities that require action on the part of some or all employees
• “All MPS&A Employee” notifications: Broadcast emails that can be published in The Dose rather than cluttering up everybody’s mailboxes

What The Monthly Dose is not for:

• Anniversaries,  milestones, etc. :  McKNet already covers anniversaries, milestones and engaging personal stories; The Monthly Dose does not want to compete with that resource
• Classified ads, personal announcements, lost pets, etc.: This information can be displayed on the lunch room bulletin board
• Editorials, blogs, or rants: The Dose should remain a source for positive, useful, business friendly information

If you have any questions about The Monthly Dose or the new article idea contest, please contact the marketing team at [email protected].

The Monthly Dose celebrates its first anniversary!