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Our New Newsletter Editor!
Some words from Phyllis:
From: phyllneum [mailto:phyllneum]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:03 AM
To: pcugr-advisory
Subject: [PCUGR-ADVISORY] Redwood Chips
Dear Members of the Board,
After reading the minutes of the last Board meeting I was surprised
to learn that you want to reduce the number of
pages in Redwood Chips from 12 down to 8. Not being at the Board
meeting gave me no way to express my views on the subject,
so I'm using this forum to do it.
As a new (or returning) newsletter editor I have lots of enthusiasm
and energy to make this a great newsletter. I have to admit that
reducing the number of pages curtails my ability
to share articles of interest as well as important information to the
membership, information they might not be able to find elsewhere.
I am sent many newsletters from other computer groups. It is quite
obvious from the quality and size of the newsletters which groups have
substance and which groups are barely making it. This, I feel, has a
direct relationship to how our members feels about the group and what
they get from it.
Redwood Chips is one of the main reasons that people belong to this
group. If you degrade the newsletter you
will also stand a chance of losing members, because what they learn in
the newsletter is valuable information and keeps them in the loop. If
they're not getting their money's worth they will get it somewhere
else.
banner stand . Your order buy essay here academic assignments. While I understand that funds are tight, I feel that there needs to
be other ways of saving money. Some suggestions: (1) Be more stringent
with handing out newsletters at the General Meetings (i.e., not giving
members another copy). (2) Print less newsletters, so there are not
too many left over. (3) Go to a cheaper copying shop. (Personally, any
copier that cannot read grayed or colored boxes is not doing its job.
If you check the pdf file you'll see there were several grayed boxes
that should have shown up on the printed version.)
But, I guess the bottom line (at least for me) is not to reduce the
quality of Redwood Chips. It represents PCUGR and the service to our
members. Thank you for letting me express my feelings. Please get back
to me ASAP, as I'm in the process of putting the newsletter together
and would like to be advised if I can keep the same number of pages as
last month.
Phyllis
There
was some discussion of the distributing Chips in this format
every month. In the spirit of "if life gives
you lemons, make lemonade," let me know if you like the
format or if you found the PDF version more useful.