10.3 CFC email magazine discussion

[Vladimir Drkulec]

This is for discussion about the CFC news email magazine.

[Garvin Nunes]

I am very impressed with the amount of work John puts into the magazine. Keep up the good work John.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

I am very impressed with the amount of work John puts into the magazine. Keep up the good work John.

I am also very impressed with the quality of the product that John presents us with. I would like to see some double issues or splitting issues into more manageable sizes to catch up on the backlog and also perhaps more timely coverage of major events. We might also look at whether we should look at alternate ways of presenting the same great content. Increasingly facebook is a way that we disseminate news and photos. John has been a big part of that effort along with Victoria Doknjas.

[Lyle Craver]

I've always been a huge fan of The Week in Chess format and would greatly prefer something that like to Facebook which is more ephemeral

[Aris Marghetis]

I've always been a huge fan of The Week in Chess format and would greatly prefer something that like to Facebook which is more ephemeral

I agree deeply with Lyle on this one. Some people loathe Facebook LOL

I also agree perhaps with smaller issues on quicker turnaround times.

[Lyle Craver]

As an example you might check out the BC bulletin which has been going for 12+ years and is at 300+ issues http://chess.bc.ca/bcbulletin.shtml

To be sure much of the time it's been a personal labor of love for Stephen Wright (and anyone who knows the bulletin knows Wright's interest in chess history) but that many years is not to be sneezed at.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

I agree deeply with Lyle on this one. Some people loathe Facebook LOL

Facebook is one way to reach lots of people quickly and it does make it easy to upload pictures. It can be a big time waster too. We do have to find new ways to reach more people. If Larry Bevand follows through on on his intention to sell chesstalk it will likely no longer be the way to disseminate chess information in Canada.

[Gary Hua]

Personally, I feel that the current issues should not be more than 3 months late otherwise, players/readers will have lost the interest to read much of it. As in any magazines in the stand, do we buy outdated magazines ?

I agree that the contents are very good but somehow it loses it's value if it is one year late.

[Mark S. Dutton, I.A.]

Personally, I feel that the current issues should not be more than 3 months late otherwise, players/readers will have lost the interest to read much of it. As in any magazines in the stand, do we buy outdated magazines ?

I agree that the contents are very good but somehow it loses it's value if it is one year late.

Absolutely agree.

Great work by John Upper -- far too LATE.

In the "information age" where everything is just a click away -- the CFC is stuck a year behind in a permanent "backlog". Time to press the "RESET" button.

[Lyle Craver]

While I am a Facebook user I very much support Garland's point of view. I have a couple of major vendors who want me to access a "confidential e-mail service" to access my monthly invoice from them. Given their files come in a executable compressed format I refuse but since I regularly go onto their website to retrieve my bill that way and thereby keep payments up to date they've never bothered me.

Had there not been this method I would be having a conversation with my sales rep essentially making Garland's points but on steroids - as in we don't have the right to insist people make use of an outside server not controlled by ourselves. But I would be much less polite in making that point! LC

PS - I would greatly prefer the format of something like The Week in Chess / The BC Bulletin (basically the same format) to what we presently have.