Re: Newsletter Exchange Lists
Re: Newsletter Exchange Lists
- Subject: Re: Newsletter Exchange Lists
- From: Paul Richards <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:42:30 -0400
Hello Art.
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 03:23 AM, Michigan Apple wrote:
My question today is about the User Groups who exchange newsletters by
mail.
Being a smaller User Group with numbers averaging 80-100 members with
about
25-40% actively attending meetings we are concerned about operation
costs.
Our current membership is a little over 220. Meeting attendance is
generally around 80.
We recently polled members and most prefer to keep paper copies of the
newsletter available but many are actually reading the advance PDF
posted on
our website which is released before the meetings and the paper copies
are
mailed out.
Our webmaster is checking to see what kind of activity we are getting
at our newsletter PDFs online. It will be interesting to see. Last time
we asked our members, quite some time ago, most still preferred to get
hard copies.
My questions for the list are:
1. How many of you are producing PDF9s of your newsletter?
Our newsletter editor lives approximately 60 miles from Syracuse. I
live a few miles to the opposite side of Syracuse. He sends me
print-quality PDFs of our newsletter and I pass them on to our local
printer along with instructions for quantity, etc. Both of these are
done via e-mail. I pick up the printed copies when ready and take them
to our mailing team along with the mailing labels and paperwork needed
by the USPS for our bulk mailing.
Our editor also e-mails the PDF to our webmaster to be posted on our
web site, where current and past issues are freely available for
download.
2. Do you still mail hard copies of the newsletter for exchange
(Quantity?)
We send out 14 exchange copies of The AppleTree to other UGs. We also
send out another 34 complimentary copies, most of which go to schools
and libraries, a couple to the media, the rest to businesses.
3. How many user groups prefer to continue receive paper mailings for
exchange vs PDF only.
I don't know. I'll have to ask our other board members. I personally
prefer reading hard copy when possible.
4. If PDF version for exchange is ok, how is it delivered (link to
download
or e-mail of actual PDF)
See #1
5. What are acceptable ways to wean and trim the exchange list to the
PDF
method?
Ask.
Any of you currently getting our hard copy who wish to just grab it
from our web site instead, please let me know so I can take you off our
mailing list. Conversely, any who wish to be added may also contact me
for that.
Paul Richards
Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
Syracuse, NY, USA
http://www.iSMUG.com
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