My newsletter in now in its 7th week. I've improved the quality of the content drastically and added improvements to the mailchimp sign-up process. 

Here's workflow so far:

Mark articles in feedly

Feedly sends to pocket

Go through pocket and pick best articles

Write newsletter in word with H1 headings 

Paste word content into mailchimp template

Work in photoshop to get good featured image and post images

Send test email

Publish to mailchimp

Copy html from campaign and paste into wordpress

Format blog post

Publish

Paste post on LinkedIn