Re: PDF magazines
Re: PDF magazines
- Subject: Re: PDF magazines
- From: Peter Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:51:48 +0930
Jim,
Thanks for your message...
On 30-Mar-04, at 4:44 PM, Peter Carter wrote:
Some members were unhappy about no longer having paper in their
hands, others got themselves lost trying to download it from the
club's web site, but they now seem to have the idea.
Our MUG experienced similar dramatic cost reductions....
...
But, the thing we didn't do for several years, which I wish we had had
the ability to do right away, was to start tracking exactly how many
times our PDF newsletter was being downloaded from our web site...
... we confirmed our worst fears that only a small minority of the
club members were actually taking the time to download the PDF file
between the date it was uploaded and the date of the next member
meeting after the uploading. We in turn feel that this is one of the
reasons why our meeting attendance has dropped, i.e. that some people
had trained themselves to view the receipt of the paper newsletter in
the mail as an indication that a meeting was imminent....
We overcame that problem by starting a Yahoo! Groups list to carry
meeting announcements, etc. It's also used for troubleshooting and
other correspondence. Since it comes as regular email, members don't
need to do anything extra. We have a similar list for committee
correspondence.
Cheers,
Peter
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