IAS newsletter - online or in print?

From: Carol Ann Bonner cadastra at mindspring.com> on 2001.05.17 at 15:52:15(6499) I'm not an IAS member, but I am a member of AGGS (American Gloxinia and Gesneriad Society, admittedly redundant.) So I don't know about IAS, but AGGS still has older members who fill an important role in the club, but who aren't online, or who are, but just barely, I think we have a ways to go before we dispense with print on paper. So, Ron, how many people have sent you articles for the newsletter? :->

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2001.05.18 at 14:37:38(6508) Dear Carol, Thank you for your kind and very pertinent posting questioning me! I have received just one half page article!!!!! Another of more than a page in the immediate pipeline. I am only a few weeks old and still finding out and re-focussing. I wish to do things on market target from the beginning! I wonder if most of the fertility and energy is going into in Aroid L! Hence my BIG questions are as to whether those qualities can be re-directed to the Newsletter and is the Newsletter NECESSARY? It is however a NEWSletter issued only every quarter. Another idea I throw out (!) - should we condense and consolidate the BEST which is in Aroid L quarterly and refine and balance the ideas and put it into a Newsletter at least for the moment. Since I have NOWHERE ELSE TO PUT IT, I will post a kind list of suggestions by a Member for Articles to be written after this week end. Currently, most of my energies are being used in trying to find out what people want in the Newsletter as a back up support to annual Aroideana. I need an informed decision on objectives (reason for being) and consequent Specs for the NEWS....LETTER. Unless I do it RIGHT, then it won't do more to increase and sustain Membership and bring in the needed funds. I am at the stage of Losing MYSELF in the chat, I expect you are the same. Brief and wiser direction is needed. I cannot in ignorance provide that Leadership. It is SO much easier just to write articles of all kinds oneself and then refine them so they are publically acceptable. I look back on some of my intentionally provocative chat with blushes but it had to be done swiftly. I'll spell it out for EVERYBODY. You asked me to EDIT the NEWS Letter. I NEED POLICY group decisions as to what the functions and roles would be most productive for that publication need to EVOLVE? If I do it MY WAY as some have urged even using the few past newsletters I have, the chances of being WAY off target in the 21st Century are high. I am requesting that it can be in ELECTRONIC FORM so that colour and photos are POSSIBLE, with hard copy in B/W for those who have no computers. For goodness sake, the Entomological Livestock Group (UK) has 600 Members, a Newsletter, twice per month, on email or hard copy, mainly livestock listings but anything is possible there. Where is the Member Plant Have/Want List in IAS? Shall I put out a SURVEY OF NEEDS of Members in the Newsletter for you to complete and ADD. In that Survey maybe I could bring in people with long experience in Society Management? Respectfully but frustrated Ron +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:52 PM Subject: IAS newsletter - online or in print? | I'm not an IAS member, but I am a member of AGGS (American Gloxinia and | Gesneriad Society, admittedly redundant.) So I don't know about IAS, but | AGGS still has older members who fill an important role in the club, but | who aren't online, or who are, but just barely, I think we have a ways to | go before we dispense with print on paper. | | So, Ron, how many people have sent you articles for the newsletter? :-> | |

From: "George R Stilwell, Jr." grsjr at juno.com> on 2001.05.20 at 03:21:22(6523) Ron, Since the Newsletter is really only necessary for those who can't share in Aroid-L, I +More think your suggestion is a really good one. >should we condense and consolidate the BEST which is in Aroid-L quarterly and refine >and balance the ideas and put it into a Newsletter That way the non-computer people can share in Aroid-L's best information. The "hort" articles that were in the newsletter can be directed to 'Aroideana' to broaden it's scope. We did this for a while at AEG using the best of Arisaema-L to do a printed quarterly for the non-computer AEG members. It worked ok, but there was not a great rush of enthusiasm from these folks. It's a chore to sit down and write a snail-mail letter. The few responses were quite positive. Ray GRSJr@Juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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