The Chuff Zone

[Porshagod]

Question- What's a "Chuff"?  :?

[dmano]

I think it is that itching feeling you get on your butt when you sit on hot leather seats in the summer.

Or it could be that flabby thing you get under your arms when you get old.

 

[dmano]

However I also want to point out that only 50% of our regions membership have recorded email addresses in their membership record. So it appears that many in our membership do not live in the cyber world as we do.


 

We let the members know in 2 to 3 issue that they needed to register their email and vote on going to the web issue or print issue of the news letter.

I also forgot to mention that my dive club "Dudas" also went to full web newsletters instead of print and they now have an awesome web site with advertisers. It took about a year for it to catch on. They send an automatic email notice to all members when the new newsletter is published. A much better way in my view. Also very cost effective.

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[Darren]

Brian Minkin wrote:

However I also want to point out that only 50% of our regions membership have recorded email addresses in their membership record. So it appears that many in our membership do not live in the cyber world as we do.

I bet 99%+ of the member base has email and Internet connectivity. Many people are spam adverse, so it is harder to get their email address if there is no purpose.

I know several members who I talk to in email that never look at the forums. Also, it may be that only 25% of the member base has visited the website -- there are also people receiving Der Gasser who never look at it.

There are packaged software soltutions available for publishing Internet newsletters, maybe it would be a worthwhile activity to take a look at some of them and create a mock-up of what an electronic form of Der Gasser would look like? We could take the current issue and duplicate it so we can see side by side.

[dmano]

Maybe we need to just have a newsletter and not make members go to the forum to see it.  The CCACC and Dudas just have the news letter on the web and not a forum site.

Here is the other club I belong to HCC and their news letter that used to be in print but now is web based  http://www.historicalcarclub.org/ and Dudas: http://www.dudasdiving.com/kda.htm

[dmano]

Review the KDA site as it is really nice with lots of info and a link to past issues.

[Tony356993]

I do not have statistics for RTR but in the 2007 national PCA survey less then 25% of the members have ever visited the PCA web site.  If our forum membership is a guide we have over 1300 members in the region and only 300 who have joined the forum.  And some of those forum members are PCA members from other regions. 

So this tells us that we need to have a printed newsletter.

There is no stats as to who actually reads Der Gasser. Just because you mailed it does not mean they read it.

 

 

[AMoore]

Does anyone else think its nice to get a bound magazine for browsing and collecting?

[Darren]

More than likely if we used a software app that does this sort of thing well, it should also let us render the newsletter in PDF which could then be printed out, in color if you wanted.

We'd be able to keep years and years of newsletters on the website without difficulty, but for people who want a hard copy, printing it out should be just as good as receiving a paper copy of Der Gasser.

[dmano]

Darren wrote:

More than likely if we used a software app that does this sort of thing well, it should also let us render the newsletter in PDF which could then be printed out, in color if you wanted.

We'd be able to keep years and years of newsletters on the website without difficulty, but for people who want a hard copy, printing it out should be just as good as receiving a paper copy of Der Gasser.

Darren, you are exactly right on the PDF as I can get issues of past newsletters up to 1 year from the KDA, HCC and CCACC all in full color.

What I said earlier was, you just send a normal email from the club with the newsletter attached with a header June 2008 Newsletter if the member wants to read it they can just open it, if not delete it. No spam or popups attached.

Just think of all the trees we could save!